We piloted a youth journalism training programme for people aged between 17 and 23, who care about the city.
It included a three-month course, with classes once a week, followed by several months of one-to-one mentoring on stories, some of which we published. We're trying to work out how to make it a sustainable ongoing project.
Part of it has been sharing what we know about journalism and how to do it. And part of it has been listening to Dubliners in this age group, to see what kind of news they want to see and also where they want to find that news.
You can read some of the work that they produced here.
Project partners also produced a workbook on youth journalism, which you can find here, and a memorandum.
The initiative was part of the YoCoJoin project, a pan-European initiative co-funded by the European Union, involving five other newsrooms and organisations who all have been working under the guidance of the Dutch local public broadcaster Omroep Tilburg.
Courts reporter Stephen Bourke gives students an interactive lecture on what it's like to cover the criminal justice system (L); students get stuck into a photography challenge during one of the classes (R)
