Youth press

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Youth press (also youth media ) refers to the mass media designed by young people for young people , such as school or student newspapers , high school newspapers , school or university radio programs or websites.

These media are created by young people in terms of content and design and are responsible for them.

In common parlance, the term youth press has also established itself for the interest groups of young media makers, which means the youth press associations or youth media associations. In Germany, these associations and unions are also organized as pure youth institutions without adult supervision or supervision. There are corresponding associations in almost all federal states; A nationwide umbrella organization is the Jugendpresse Deutschland eV In addition, there are structures at the state level and other associations that are active in this area, such as the Junge Presse .

They offer educational seminars and reports, for example through the Political Orange, and events such as the youth media days , youth media events or youth media camps for young people interested in the media. They also publish manuals for school newspaper makers and offer the youth press card as proof of non-commercial journalistic work.

history

Press conference of the German youth press with Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt and the writer Günter Grass , Bonn 1972

As early as 1947, the Ring Berliner Schülerzeitungen , later Junge Presse Berlin , was the first youth press association to be founded; 1951 followed, founded by Walther von La Roche , the "press of the youth" in Bavaria. In 1952 the BAG Junge Presse was created, which 15 years later, in 1967, became the Deutsche Jugendpresse ( DJP ).

Because of political struggles for direction - the DJP positioned itself as politically left-wing - the Federal Association of Youth Press (BVJ) was founded on February 13, 1987 in Hanover with the participation of JU members, which in turn emerged from the umbrella association of the youth press, the Bundesring of German Young Journalists. The almost meaningless Association of Young Journalists in Germany (VJPD) was also founded in the 1980s. As a result, double structures emerged or consolidated in many federal states. In Hesse at the end of the 1980s the "left" Young Press Hessen [JPH] worked as the state association of the DJP and the "conservative" Hessian youth press [HJP] as the state association of the BVJ as well as the Hessian school and youth newspaper association to be classified in the "middle" ( HSJV), which did not belong to any federal association. JPH and HSJV have received funding from the Hessian Ministry of Culture as the two largest associations. The Hessian ministers of culture were regularly patrons of the Hessian school newspaper competition, which is carried out to this day by the HSJV [today: Jugendpresse Hessen] at the book fair in Frankfurt.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, youth press associations were also founded in the new federal states. In 1990, with the Junge Presse Deutschland , which was renamed Junge Medien Deutschland (JMD) in 1992, a fourth association at federal level was established in Dresden . Some associations were at least temporarily members of several federal associations; the then Free Youth Press Saxony-Anhalt (today fjp media ) was a member of the BVJ and the VJJD, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junge Presse Nordrhein-Westfalen (today Junge Presse Nordrhein-Westfalen ) was a member of the DJP and the BVJ.

At the turn of the millennium, the relationship between the two most important associations, the DJP and the BVJ, improved. In 2000, a joint press card was issued and the project politikorange was launched in spring 2002 on the occasion of the Politics Days . During the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the BVJ, the idea of ​​merging the two associations was born. On April 5, 2003, the regional associations in the Nordic embassies in Berlin founded the Jugendpresse Deutschland ( JPD ) and decided to liquidate the DJP and the BVJ. The dual structures in Baden-Württemberg , Schleswig-Holstein , Hesse and Bavaria were then merged or dissolved.

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