Goodbye to Teen Vogue, the latest youth-oriented publication to close. Thankfully, after 32 years, we're still around, producing high-quality journalism from young people around the globe. We don't ever give up.

This is Tahiry from Madagascar at YJI's global conference, a long way from her home village that lacks electricity or running water. Her smile is lighting up Cape Town!

On day one of YJI's conference in Cape Town, four students saw the ocean for the first time. They hail from Egypt, Madagascar, Maryland and Ghana.

My stance towards AI slop like this has been "If you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?" for quite some time now & I'm still waiting for someone to show me the error of my ways.

Catch up on Eurovision with reports from YJI's Florian Gashi, pictured here with winner JJ of Austria. Find his work at www. Youthjournalism.org

Thank you Ursula von der Leyen for recognising the work of Journalists! I am very privileged to live in a country where we as young people are safe to share our thoughts freely. Through some work I do with @yjinow.bsky.social I have seen first hand the problems in certain countries with freedom.

You can now hear the next generation of journalists reading their work from countries spanning the globe. It's amazing. soundcloud.com/youth-journa...

Great article from a young aspiring journalist on the @yjinow.bsky.social site about last weekend's #F1 #AusGP in Melbourne youthjournalism.org/f1-driver-di...

One of @yjinow.bsky.social's students, Ukrainian Vladlen Zaitsev, wrote a piece about having the opportunity recently to meet with @kajakallas.bsky.social, vice president of the European Commission. Love that. At Youth Journalism International, we know we need to hear what young people have to say.

What it's like for a girl in Kabul today. youthjournalism.org/kabul-my-bea...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

Don't miss this.

You really need to read one of @yjinow.bsky.social's great alums writing about Mark Zuckerberg, for whom she worked in Facebook's early days. It's both perceptive and, frankly, kind of scary. internetbivalve.substack.com/p/aut-zuck-a...

Youth Journalism International's Noah Haynes interviewed one of only two Greenlandic reps in the Danish Parliament for a story on Trump's threats against Greenland. Whether you see it as a joke or a concern, read the story here: youthjournalism.org/greenland-le... @yjinow.bsky.social

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Entries for YJI's annual journalism contest are due by Feb. 7. You can find the rules and entry form at the link below. Basically, any non-professional work by students 19 & under published in 2024 is eligible. There are many categories. youthjournalism.org/contest/

Diversity begins in Cairo youthjournalism.org/diversity-be...

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

Please read this youthjournalism.org/sharing-my-b...

While other media is regurgitating the work they did earlier in the year, bsky.app/profile/yjin... is posting tons of new stuff this weekend youthjournalism.org

Journalism is not a crime.

Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The taste of Christmas. youthjournalism.org/foods-that-t...

Viva México! youthjournalism.org/home-2-3-2-2...

A wonderful teen from Karachi weighed in with her perspective on @yjinow.bsky.social's global conference in Mexico City last summer. If you read it, you will understand why YJI is such an amazing nonprofit, transforming lives as it trains the next generation of journalists worldwide.

I liked a piece today by a YJI student in Morocco who wrote about what it was like to attend his first symphonic concert. Go along with Sal Mamouni in Casablanca to experience Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ with him. It's a great reminder of why live music matters. youthjournalism.org/verdis-requi...

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Everybody with access to analytics has been posting about how much more traffic gets driven to news sites by Bluesky vs Twitter. Certainly relative to scale and often in absolute terms. But it also makes clear how much Twitter is throttling web links and/or how many of the accounts on Twitter ...

Democracy was on the line in South Korea. They handled it. Read my student Damian Nam's analysis of what went down in his country: youthjournalism.org/south-koreas...

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

Docked along the Kennebec River in Bath is a replica of Virginia, the first English ship built in the Americas meant to sail the seas. youthjournalism.org/before-the-m...

Same. I want everyone to love @yjinow.bsky.social as much as I do. And that's a lot!

Hello friends! Thanks to all my new followers. :) Wanted to share this interesting review of the new 'Wicked" movie by my @yjinow.bsky.social student Anjola Fashawe in London. #wicked #moviereview #journalism #education #youthjournalisminternational Find it here: youthjournalism.org/wicked-wasnt...

Malaysian women work toward equality by taking on healthcare youthjournalism.org/malaysian-wo...

The US has one of the highest rates of people paying for online news. Only Norway and Sweden have higher per capita percentages.

"Daily dose of idealism and hope" Can confirm

In my BBC Science Focus article, I argue banning social media for kids isn't effective. Evidence shows minimal impact on well-being & life satisfaction. Bans may hinder digital skill development. We should guide, not restrict. Historical bans a cautionary tale. www.sciencefocus.com/comment/soci...)

One of @yjinow.bsky.social's students in Brazil, Nicole Luna, just wrote a story that will probably seem commonplace before too long.... "Maringá, BRAZIL – I worked for a robot for eight months. You probably think this is a fictional story, but it’s not!" youthjournalism.org/my-boss-was-...

Today one of my students let me know that she 1.) won a poetry contest and 2.) wanted to donate her cash prize to Youth Journalism International.🥰 @yjinow.bsky.social

Singer Rachel Chinouriri took to the stage Saturday at London’s O2 Kentish Town to conclude her debut album tour in a blaze of infectious energy and heartfelt emotion. youthjournalism.org/rachel-chino...

Maringá, BRAZIL – “It’s so hot, I’m cooking!” is a common complaint in Brazil. Brazil is a tropical country, so Brazilians are used to warm weather, but not to the extremes they are experiencing now. youthjournalism.org/brazil-is-bu...

In the last few months, authorities in Denmark have asked for people to prepare for an unspecific ‘crisis' & urged everyone to prepare three days’ worth of supplies – like food, water and medication. youthjournalism.org/danes-prepar...

Happy that our executive director, @jackiemajerus.bsky.social, was named as a Friend of Scholastic Journalism this month by the Journalism Education Association. She's forging a future for journalism every damn day.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay