Youth Voices Program

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

  • Arlee students cover new community center

    After their fellow students expressed concerns for the lack of employment and after-school activity opportunities in Arlee, Montana, young journalists at Arlee High School embarked on a reporting journey to […]

  • 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, […]

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