YouNews 2019: The Swiss Youth Media Week with seven new partners

In the week from January 14 to 20, 2019, various Swiss media will be offering young people the opportunity to get to know journalistic work at the second edition of YouNews, the Swiss Youth Media Week. With Blick, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, persoenlich.com, Radio 24, SRF Arena and Virgin Radio Switzerland, seven new partners have been won for the project, while the founding partners, namely the Swiss School of Journalism MAZ, Radio Argovia, Radio SRF 3, Radio SRF Virus (SRF Young Target Groups), SRF Tagesschau, Tages-Anzeiger/SonntagsZeitung and Watson, are participating again. At the Tamedia editorial office, for example, the young people are making their own videos, at SRF they are interviewing politicians on the major topics of the 2019 election year in the Arena program, or they are sitting at the presenter's desk at the participating radio stations.

Interested parties can apply until October 31

Interested school classes (from 3rd grade) and young people aged 15 and over can register from now until October 31, 2018 at YouNews.ch apply to take part. The young people are given the opportunity to work directly in the editorial offices. The YouNews project was initiated by Viviane Manz, editor and producer at SRF Tagesschau, Michael Marti, member of the Tamedia editorial team, and Franz Fischlin, SRF Tagesschau, Media Club and representative of the "Quality in Journalism" association, which supports the project. Around 250 young people took part in the first event in January 2018. "We are delighted that we will be able to start with seven new partner media in 2019. This will enable us to give even more young people the opportunity to gain in-depth insights into journalistic work," says co-initiator Michael Marti, and Viviane Manz adds: "In times of fake news, we want to contribute to the media education of young people - in line with the motto of taking part instead of watching. Pupils learn what contribution the media makes to our democracy. And we learn from them at the same time."