Courting youth: The radio industry is going nuts, worrying that younger listeners have abandoned the medium and consider it Squaresville, while they do their music listening on digital players, cell phones and online.
Try telling that to the thousands of youngsters who've graduated from Youth Radio, or to the two guys who are in the organization's lobby in downtown Oakland, hunched over their applications, hoping to get into its tuition-free program.
If they succeed, they'll become two of some 10,000 urban kids in the program's 10 years who've received training in broadcast journalism; recording; engineering; editing, audio, video and music production; Web design and production; and media literacy and advocacy in 12-week sessions conducted after school hours.
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