Youth Radio Receives Ethnic Media Award

Congratulations to Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw - Winner of 2009 Northern California Ethnic Media Award for Youth Reporting.

New America Media honored the winners and runners-up at the Mission Language & Vocational School on Friday March 20th. The event in San Francisco was the last in a series of five ethnic media awards competitions NAM hosted to lead up to the 2nd National Ethnic Media awards in Atlanta on June 4-5 2009.

The New America Media awards began as the New California Media Awards to honor the best reporting in ethnic media in California. “It is our homecoming of sorts,” said awards coordinator Sandip Roy. “We realized we needed to honor local reporting because ethnic media really tells the stories of communities and neighborhoods.”

The winning entries for the Northern California ethnic media illustrate the wide range of issues that affect ethnic media and their readers and viewers. The stories honored are as diverse as the media they come from – from SRO hotels in Chinatown to South Indian classical music, to name just a few. Over 200 entries were submitted from Northern and Southern California.

Youth Radio

Youth Radio was founded in 1990 on the deeply held belief that underserved youth, ages 14-24 years old, have the creativity, technical skills and entrepreneurial spirit to become leaders in the multi-media industry and the community and to serve as mentors to other youth.

Each year Youth Radio introduces diverse groups of students to a broad spectrum of media-related careers and state-of-the-art technology. Its program goals are to strengthen basic life-skills, motivate them to graduate from high school and attend a two or four year university and prepare them for multi-media and other careers in the 21st Century Marketplace.

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