ARTICLES: Leveson inquiry urged to consider portrayal of young people (UK)

by Janaki Mahadevan Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Youth organisations have called for the Leveson inquiry to consider reforms to the editors' code of practice to encourage a fairer portrayal of young people in the press.

The 60 organisations led by the Youth Media Agency have signed up to a submission, which calls on the code to include age as a classification of discrimination and for it to include a clause that stipulates that journalists must exercise a duty of care to avoid negative generalisations about children and young people.

The submission also recommends that the Press Complaints Commission is made more accessible to children and young people and develops a child-friendly interface on its website.

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ARTICLES: The media vacuum: A lack of youth representation on TV (PAKISTAN)

If someone outside Pakistan was watching our channels and our television shows, they would simply wonder: where are all the youngsters? Do they even exist in Pakistan? Perhaps not, because they can’t be seen on TV; and if you aren’t on TV, then you don’t exist.

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NEWS: Young people to quiz panel over negative media portrayals (UK)

By Natalie Bowen, Community Newswire
SOCIAL Summit Brent, 12 Aug 2010 - 11:52

Young people from Brent will take a panel of adults to task about negative media stereotypes of their generation on Thursday.

About 100 people between the ages of 10 and 19 will gather at a 'media summit' in the Advait Cultural Centre in Wembley to quiz a five-strong panel about the issue.

Members of Brent's Youth Parliament (BYP) will lead the questions put to Sarah Teather MP, Brent Councillor Roxanne Mashari, Willesden and Brent Times editor Andy McCorkell, Commander Matt Gardner of the Metropolitan Police Brent Borough and Andy Hamflett, the chief executive of UK Youth Parliament (UKYP).

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NEWS: Knesset pushes to protect children appearing on TV (ISRAEL)

The Second Authority for Television and Radio is putting together an agreement to formalize rules concerning childrens' exposure in certain media outlets, authority deputy director Ayelet Metzger told the Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child yesterday. The agreement stipulates that children will only participate in media programs, such as reality TV programs, after professionals who spoke with them prior to their participation determine they will not be harmed by the experience.

"We've been trying to phrase an agreement defining children's participation in the programs that would be agreeable to both broadcasting outlets and producers," Metzger said.

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AWARDS: Prize to focus on children, adolescents in the Dominican Republic

Posted on: 21/06/2010 Children Deadline: 13/08/2010 Region: Latin America

Journalists in the Dominican Republic who work in print, digital, and broadcast media are invited to submit works on situations that affect children and adolescents in the country to a national competition. Deadline: August 13.

The competition, organized by Plan República Dominicana, UNICEF and Visión Mundial, seeks to promote the coverage of children and to create awareness of childhood issues in the media and society.

Works must have been published between August 16, 2009 and August 10, 2010.

For more information, click here (in Spanish).

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ARTICLES: We want to open the media's dialogue on young people

Should every newspaper have its own young journalist? This is just one of the things we will be thinking about to change the negative portrayals of young people by media across the globe.

"It makes me sick"; "They're feral, cruel and ruthless – it's in their nature"; "They wonder in packs"; "These animals, destroying people's lives"; "Perhaps sterilisation?"; "Something needs to be done".

You'd be forgiven for thinking that these were condemnations of urban wildlife posted on a hunting forum. But they are all comments that have appeared on news stories about young people.

When England's young people aren't being feral, some of us are trying to make positive change. This week sees the first ever UK Youth Media Council (UKYMC), of which I am a member, attend the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth in Karlstad, Sweden. We are here among 35 representatives from more than 20 countries making up the first Global Youth Council for media. It will be drafting five recommendations for a better global media, to be presented to Unesco and UNICEF.

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NEWS: Parliamentary Assembly hearing on ‘Combating sexist stereotypes in the media’

Parliamentary Assembly hearing on 'Combating sexist stereotypes in the media'

Strasbourg, 19.03.2009 – How are women portrayed in the media? Do the media promote sexist stereotypes? What is their impact in society, especially among young people? What can be done to combat these stereotypes? What is the responsibility of the media? All these questions will be discussed at a hearing organised by the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), to be held in Paris on Tuesday 24 March.

The hearing is the initiative of Doris Stump (Switzerland, SOC), who is currently preparing a report on "Combating sexist stereotypes in the media". The participants will include German feminist writer Luise Pusch, the rapporteur of the French Committee on the image of women in the media Brigitte Grésy, Austrian sociologist Angelika Paseka, academics and representatives of journalists' associations.

The hearing, which will take place on Tuesday 24 March from 9 am to 1 pm at the Council of Europe Office (55 avenue Kléber, Paris 16ème, Metro: Boissière), is open to the public.

Programme of the Hearing

Contact:
Nathalie Bargellini, PACE Communication Unit
Mobile: +33 (0)6 65 40 32 82, nathalie.bargellini@coe.int

ARTICLES / NEWS: Young people asked for their views on media portrayal (UK)

Young people asked for their views on media portrayal

The government is urging young people to express feelings about the way they are portrayed by the media, in the form of a competition.

Launched last Tuesday by the Hansard Society and the House of Lords, the competition is open to 11- to 16-year-olds through youth groups, schools and other official organisations.

Raw Deal or Truth Told? Young People in the Media will ask entrants to look at issues such as media portrayals of youth culture, negative press coverage and the importance of celebrity and sporting role models.

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