Youth Media Justice & WRFG's Citizen Journalism Project

 our partnersThis web site reflects the views of college and high school youth and interested adult activists about current issues not seen in mainstream media.

It is developed and maintained by WRFG 89.3's Community Radio interns and the project's student participants from Clark Atlanta University's Journalism division, People TV  and Project South- without whom we couldn't do this.  Find more about us on the "About Us" page.

From 2008 WRFG Interns Exit Interviews

 

WRFG Spring 2009 Interns

2009 Spring Interns WRFG Radio

Click here for more photos of the spring 2009 WRFG interns.

OPINIONS AND PERSPECTIVES: APRIL. ISSUE - MEDIA JUSTICE

Read the Fine Print

      An old saying by Eliot Wigginton goes “Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.”

Predatory Lending

 

Erica Williams 
Predatory Lending
 News Editing II

Why Is Fixing the Media Important?

            As citizens who own the media airwaves, fixing the media is essential and necessary.

Predatory Lending: The Facts

           What is the serious problem about predatory lending?

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Vanessa LeBrun
PREDATORY LENDING
News Editing II
By Vanessa LeBrun

Predatory Lending- what is going on?!

 You might think getting robbed is a criminal in all black sticking you up with a gun. But today in the 21st century, robbery is around the corner, in the banks, in the lending office. If you have a loan out you might be getting robbed.

Predatory Lending- what is going on?!

 You might think getting robbed is a criminal in all black sticking you up with a gun. But today in the 21st century, robbery is around the corner, in the banks, in the lending office. If you have a loan out you might be getting robbed.

The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

(This article was published recently in The Nation)

John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney were the founders, with Josh Silver, of Free Press, which has launched a campaign to save the news. Their book, Saving Journalism: The Soul of Democracy, will be published by New Press in the fall.
 

 AVENGING ANGELS

AVENGING ANGELS

Communities across America are suffering through a crisis that could leave a dramatically diminished version of democracy in its wake. It is not the economic meltdown, although the crisis is related to the broader day of reckoning that appears to have arrived. The crisis of which we speak involves more than mere economics. Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.

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