November 22, 2009
UTNE READER

Shelf Life: The Kids in the Newsroom

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September-October 2008
by Danielle Maestretti 
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Represent, a magazine written by young people in various realms of the child-welfare system (group homes, foster homes, etc.), focuses on themes relevant to “youth in care”: relationships with birth parents, aging out of the foster care system, addiction, friendship. Before these articles go to print, though, teens go through a lengthy editing process—sometimes spanning several months and more than a dozen drafts—to steer what often begins as a rant into something that will resonate better with both peer readers and policy makers, social workers, and educators. I also recommend WireTap, a social change–focused online magazine for slightly older young people (16 to 28), which houses a set of resources for new writers on its website.

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