CONTACT: Eming Piansay

Associate Editor, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia

415.503.4170

Calling all Youth/Youth Media Bloggers

Participate in the Seventh Youth Media Blog-a-Thon

Topic: Getting Grown During a Recession

Building on the success of 2008’s virtual events, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia and WireTap Magazine are proud to announce our sixth weeklong Youth Media Blog-a-Thon to kick off on May 13th.

We are calling all young bloggers (between the ages of 14-26) – along with any bloggers dedicated to writing about youth issues and youth media – to blog from May 13th to May 20th about: “Getting Grown During a Recession”.

We want to know what it’s like for young people to come of age during one of the worst economic downturns in U.S. history. What is like to search for your first job. Go to college? Share new family responsibilities?

Here are some ideas to address in your blog posts:
—Are you looking for a job? Describe your experience, and how does it compare to your past experience looking for a job?
— Are you graduating from school? Are you nervous about entering the job market? Explain.
—How has the economic recession affected your future plans? College? Etc.
—Have you gone through any major changes in your life recently? Involving, friends, family, work, personal life. How have you coped with these changes?
— As a high school student, while applying to college did you pick a major taking into consideration which fields pay the most money? Why or why what?
— As a college student, do you feel your degree will help you get a job in today’s job market? Why or why not.
— How has your community gone through any major changes? Were they positive or negative?
— Do you think Obama’s presidency has changed your community, the nation, and the world’s perception of America since his election? Why? Why not? Explain.

If you are interested in being a part of the Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, please email Eming Piansay at epiansay@newamericamedia.org

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For over 15 years, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia has been a leader in youth-produced content in the Bay Area. Through our active website (http://www.youthoutlook.org), YO!TV – a weekly 30-minute television show on Access 29 in San Francisco, and our weekly YO!Radio segments aired on KMEL 106.1, YO! gives young people a voice on the issues they most care about. YO! content is also regularly syndicated in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune and more. The YO! blog has been active since 2007.

WireTap is a national news and culture magazine by and for socially conscious youth. Our online community promotes social justice, inspires action and gives young people a voice in the media. Wiretap provides free, daily content to over 60,000 monthly visitors and 14,000 weekly newsletter subscribers. Our award-winning journalism and youth commentary is syndicated every week on the Nation.com, AlterNet.org and Chicago Sun Times, college papers, and hundreds of our stories get linked to in widely read blogs and websites from Mother Jones blog to Fear of a Brown Blogger to social networking site MyBloc.net.