To mark this milestone, this series of extracts or summaries reflects on aspects of youth policy and youth work practice over the past 25 years as featured in the 100th issue.
A plague on all our houses? Reflections on media coverage of young people
The last few years have seen some serious efforts taken to both track and challenge the way young people are presented in the media. It has not always gone down well with the press. Tim Gospill, editor of the National Union of Journalists' house journal The Journalist, accepted that the press has a duty to report fairly, but bridled at the notion of any "duty" to present positive images, as he told Young People Now magazine when it launched its Positive Images campaign in 2004. Based on YPN's own survey looking at tabloids, local papers and broadsheets, 71 per cent of articles had a negative tone, 15 per cent were neutral and 14 per cent were positive.
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