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Last updated on May 21, 2008

To empower a diverse group of youth towards leadership with experience and exposure to media and technology.

Description:
HarlemLive is award winning, critically acclaimed web magazine produced by teens from throughout New York City. It is a journalism, technology and leadership program that teaches students ages 13 to 21 how to run an online newspaper. The publication, "HarlemLive," (www.harlemlive.org), includes news articles, investigative stories, opinion pieces, personal essays, poetry, photography and video documentaries. The students organize events, conduct workshops and sit on panels, increasing their networking and public speaking abilities.

Teenagers run every aspect of the publication and are assigned positions such as editor-in-chief, managing editor, photo editor, reporters, layout designers, administrators and technicians. Adult mentors, including journalism professionals from The New York Times, Black Entertainment Television, ABC News, VIBE magazine, Time Magazine, and Bloomberg News guide them through the process.

History:
HarlemLive, a nonprofit 501c3 organization, was created in 1996 by a former New York City public school teacher. He was responding to a need: With dwindling funding for high school newspapers, fewer teenagers in low-income neighborhoods were being exposed to journalism at an age when they might become interested and motivated to consider communications a career goal.

The first students to join HarlemLive came from a few junior high schools. Today, there are more than 60 students enrolled in the program, hailing from over 30 schools throughout the five boroughs of New York. For three of its six years, HarlemLive was based in an office on 111th Street and 5th Avenue in East Harlem, sharing space in a computer center called Playing To Win, and before that, in a basement office at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Contact people:

Richard Calton, Founder, (212) 222-4681, (email) Melvin Johnson, Associate Director, (212) 222-4681, (email) Gisely Colon Lopez, Acting Director, (212) 222-4681, (email)

Office fax number: (212) 222-9159

Address:

525 W. 120th Street Box 144 New York, NY 10027 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.harlemlive.org

Directions:

This is mailing address only.

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