The Montana Media Lab empowers youth in rural and Indigenous communities to find their voices. We teach teens how to tell stories about their own experiences using audio journalism. Along the way, students get a look inside the media landscape. Participants say the workshops help them feel confident in their abilities to separate fact from fiction on the internet.
We’ve worked with high schools in Lodge Grass, Ronan, Box Elder and Missoula. Interested in starting a youth voices audio storytelling project in your school? Get in touch!
Youth Projects
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Lame Deer Teens Explore Energy and Journalism at Chief Dull Knife College
Written by Youth Voices Program Manager Mike Green What does the future of energy look like in southeast Montana? That’s the question a group of high school students in Lame […]
Teens report on Kyiyo Pow Wow for local newspaper
Written by Montana Media Lab Intern Lotus Porte-Moyel During the Montana Media Lab’s High School Reporting Workshop at the UM School of Journalism, high school students from Harrison, Deer Lodge, […]
Hamilton High School students apply audio journalism to a classic novel
More than 75 Hamilton, Montana teens reported audio stories about their first-hand experiences of themes from the classic novel The Crucible. Last fall, the Montana Media Lab led a workshop […]
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