We the People Media

We the People Media

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We The People Media is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering public housing residents and other low-income Chicagoans. We The People Media publishes Residents’ Journal, a 13-year-old, national-award-winning magazine written for and by public housing tenants and distributed free of charge to 40,000 low-income households in the metropolitan area. Hundreds of thousands of inner city families rely on Residents’ Journal to counter stereotypes of their communities and provide them with critical information about housing, policy changes and other coverage unavailable in the mainstream media. We The People Media operates the Urban Youth International Journalism Program, a media skills training program for Chicago youths, a World Wide Web site, wethepeoplemedia.org, and broadcasts “Residents’ Journal TV” over the Cable Access Network. In addition to its own media outlets, We The People Media is a critical source of information about public housing and the housing needs of low-income communities for opinion-makers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and National Public Radio as well as researchers at Columbia University and the Urban Institute.

Contact and Networking
Address: 4859 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL, 60615
Email:ethan@wethepeoplemedia.org
Getting involved:
Young people should be involved with a class, after-school club or youth group who would like training in journalism skills. Contact us via email or call.
Key Staff Members

Ethan Michaeli, Executive Director

About us
Populations:
Primarily African American and Latino youths ages 12-20 from low- and very-low income families. We work in all of the city’s low-income neighborhoods, primarily in and around public housing developments on the South and West sides.
Types of media:
We train young people in reporting, research, interviewing, writing, editing, photography and design skills.
Literacy skills:
We bring in professional journalists to train youths to research and write articles for publication in our national-award-winning magazine, Residents’ Journal.
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