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Youth Radio Wins Peabody Award
 Today Youth Radio was announced as a winner of a 70th Annual Peabody Award, in the company of major news organizations like CNN, NPR, HBO, PBS, and The Washington Post. This year's award recognized Youth Radio's investigative piece Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation, which explores the sex trade of minors in Oakland largely through the lens of first-person accounts of victims. The two-part investigation aired on NPR and was featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.
The Peabodys are the oldest and most prestigious awards in broadcasting, and are considered the most selective prizes in electronic media. All entries become a permanent part of the Peabody Archive at the University of Georgia, one of the nation's largest, oldest, and most revered media archives. Read more about the 70th Annual Peabody Awards here.
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Congratulations to Youth Radio's Winter 2011 Core & Bridge Graduates!
On March 18, friends and family joined Youth Radio students and staff to celebrate the graduation of its first Core and Bridge classes of 2011. We were pleased to welcome special guest Martin Reynolds, editor of the Oakland Tribune, who had inspiring words for our youth on the importance of underrepresented populations breaking into the journalism industry. Exceptional students from each class were selected to speak about their Youth Radio experience. Graduation was followed by a special open mic performance from Remix Your Life, a civic engagement and self-expression project from Youth Radio's Health Department.
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Youth Radio Participants Honored by the City of Oakland At Measure Y Ceremony
Shaw Killip, Evan Childress, and D'Mariey Johnson, Project Associates in Youth Radio's Media Advocates Transforming Community Health Program (MATCH), were honored with an Excellence in Partnership Award at the City of Oakland's Annual Measure Y Ceremony, which recognizes excellence in violence-prevention work. Departing from its usual focus on individuals, Measure Y opted to recognize partnerships this year for their instrumental role in passing Measure BB, which protected funds allocated for prevention programs.
MATCH is a 6-month intensive health-focused, leadership, education, professional soft skills, and media training designed for Oakland youth aged 14-18 who have recently been released from Alameda County's Juvenile Justice Center.
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Youth Radio's Remix Your Life Project Wins Oakland Innovators Award
Youth Radio is pleased to announce that its Remix Your Life project has won an Oakland Innovators Award. The Oakland Innovators award is administered by local clothing company Oaklandish, and seeks to reward organizations doing pioneering work in the Alameda County area. The award offers grants to projects that exemplify innovation and progress in all areas of civic life. Remix Your Life Project (RYL) has blossomed into a three day a week project engaging the young people of Youth Radio in the "remixing" of societal issues with regard to race, gender and class through critical analysis and discussion, cathartic poetry and song writing, and the recording, mixing and mastering of their own media content. Read more about Remix Your Life here.
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Youth Radio Staff Member Wins Service Award
Youth Radio's Senior Case Manager Matthew Holt was honored with a Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community by former Oakland Mayor, Ron Dellums. Matt leads case management efforts for Youth Radio's Health Department, providing therapy and support services for youth participants.
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