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NCB Now: Negative media portrayal of youth

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NCB's research, evidence and evaluation (REE) department conducts research with young people that is policy and practice focused. It recently assisted four young researchers with their study into the media portrayal of young people.

NCB's REE department works to include children and young people in research projects that are relevant to them and their peers. Negative news headlines about young people have unfortunately become all too familiar of late. But how do negative media stories affect young people, and what do they think about how they are portrayed by the media?

That is what four young researchers from NCB wanted to find out. Emrys Green (18), Naushin Shariff (18), Catherine Clark (17) and Amrita Ghosh (15), along with support from Young NCB members and REE staff, spent several months collecting stories, interviewing journalists and consulting young people through focus groups and a survey.

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