Watch: Youth Today Original Video
Youth Today: The Newspaper on Youth Work, for which I freelance, is expanding into do-it-yourself video journalism. This is the inaugural piece, written, reported, and produced by staff writer Jamaal Abdul-Alim, on a Tucson, Ariz., school-to-work program facing imminent budget cuts and closure. (Jamaal is still helping us learn the technology, but we were mighty impressed at this first effort! Learning to produce high-quality videos within the You Tube framework takes some time, we’re discovering.)
Abdul-Alim covers College&CareersToday for Youth Today through an initiative partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As he writes in the companion article—and shows clearly in the video—”[i]t’s just one more sign of how the recession is threatening promising youth programs.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VWkQrwK-U]