Y-Press

  • Location: indianapolis, IN

Y-Press is a nonprofit youth-media organization that stresses youth development and leadership skills. We are a youth-driven organization that gives children a voice in the world through journalism. Members build communication skills by producing stories with a youth perspective.

People who work with Y-Press

Caption: PRX default User image Y Press (Admin) Indianapolis, Indiana
Hrishikesh Deshpande Shelbyville, Indiana

Pieces

Last fall in a modest office in Bondy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, a group of young bloggers gathered for their weekly story meeting. They writ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
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Credit: Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star
Recently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that elite schools reserve space for youth from poorer backgrounds. Most of the schools reject...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:18
Credit: Randy Johnson/Randy Johnson Photography
Before 15-year-old Y-Press journalist Joi Officer went to Paris, she though he life lives experiences would be extremely different to the youth she...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:06
Credit: Randy Johnson/Randy Johnson Photography
The United States adopted affirmative action over 50 years ago to help promote equal opportunity and diversity. But support for it has been divide...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:32
Credit: Kelly Wilkinson/ The Indianapolis Star
According to a recent Reuter article, there are about 200 organized gangs in metropolitan Paris. Last year President Nicolas Sarkozy passed a law m...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:33
Fifteen-year-old Y-Press journalists Vincent Demyan, reports on the future for teen entrepreneurs.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
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Caption: Y-Press journalist Hrishi Deshpande
Fourteen-year-old Hrishi Deshpande, talks with fellow Y-Press journalists about how their spending has changed over the past year.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:01:42
Caption: Bard Ellis lost his college fund when AIG stock fell.
According to the College Board and Art and Science Group over 40 percent of students said that the economic crisis will change their college choice...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:19
Caption: Darnell Bland is a high junior at Cristo Rye. He works for a local enviormental firm.
In this series, four Y-Press journalists explore how the current economy has affected youth.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:54
Last July, Time’s online editor Josh Tyrangiel said Lil’Waynes rhymes were Dylanesque Dylanesque, as in Bob Dylan, and that got Y-Press journal...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:10
In the world of film, I think Judd Apatow is the new Woody Allen.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
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In October of 2001, the US Congress passed the Patriot Act. It allows the government to monitor citizens’ communications and personal information i...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:44
Youth journalists reflect and comment on their experiences with presidential candidates.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:12:17
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Karin Agness, a young Republican, started a conservative organization for college females. Started in 2004, Network of Enlightened Women, now has c...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
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Two police officers with different backgrounds offer their view on what being a police officer is all about.

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Y-Press journalist talk with several young people about their feelings about police.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:48
Caption: Myron Burr, Credit: Keenen Brannon
For 18-year-old Myron Burr, who recently graduated from Cardinal Ritter High School, relationships with police are about attitude.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:20
Caption: Members of the OK at a Saturday meeting
Y-Press reporter Max Gabovitch talks with Sergeant Timothy Knight, director of the Indianapolis OK program as well as several youth involved in the...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:20
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Teenage mothers and fathers not an uncommon sight. These young people can be found in our community and in the media. So, some Y-Press reporters w...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
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This year about 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant. According to The Centers for Disease Control teen pregnancy has risen three percent in 200...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:02:53
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