Guide to help young people use the media

By Charlotte Goddard
Children & Young People Now
11 November 2008

Young campaigners are encouraging their peers to make their voices heard through the media.

The Respect? Campaign, supported by online charity YouthNet and the British Youth Council, has launched an online guide to help young people comment on news stories by emailing, posting on forums, writing to editors and calling TV and radio programmes.

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The campaign group wants 1,000 young people to sign an online pledge promising to make their voices heard.

The campaign has already been running for three years. Sophie Manning, member of the campaign group, said: "We have been targeting politicians and journalists to get them to change the news and political agenda - now it's our turn to meet them in the middle."

www.thesite.org/respect

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Charlotte Goddard - 25 November 2008

hi Cynthia

I think the organisation may be having problems with its whole web site as I can't access any page of it, so it may be that the link does work, but the site is currently down. You could try again later, or you could give them a call on 020 7250 5700.

Cheers

 Charlotte

Cynthia McGinnis - 25 November 2008

Children who work with our service would like to participate in this initiative. The link however \( www.thesite.org/respect ) does not work.

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