The National Youth Agency: Quality - Researching media portrayals of teenagers

The National Youth Agency has established the Young Researcher Network (YRN), a partnership with 15 youth organisations to value, support and encourage research led by young people. With the training phase complete, the 15 groups will research a range of different issues. In the fourth of our series of project profiles we take a look at a National Children Bureau research project that addresses the media's portrayal of teenagers. Although plenty of research has already been carried out on how young people are portrayed in the media, very little of it has taken the view of young people themselves into account. The NCB is leading a project that will assess the impact of media reporting on young people, and will also seek to persuade the media that young people are not the "feral youth" that they have often been described as.