Youth
JAMIL.Net + Employment
Between October 2023 and January 2024, Radio Capsa FM welcomed young people from the media-literacy workshops of the Gafsa and El Guettar youth centres to design and produce radio programmes with them. Over two cycles, fourteen young people co-produced four programmes on topics they chose themselves: environmental information, online fraud, information overload on social media and making positive use of one's online presence.
Context
Young people spend much of their time online, exposed to fake news, scams and information overload, often without the tools to make sense of it. The JAMIL.Net + Emploi project runs media and information literacy workshops in youth centres and cultural centres, and seeks to connect what participants learn there with the practice of community radio. Radio Capsa FM already had experience with these topics from phases 1 and 2 of the Maghreb Radio Network project, producing programmes on its own or with other Maghreb radios.
Objectives
- 01Enable young people from the media-literacy workshops to put their knowledge into practice by producing real radio programmes.
- 02Pass on the basics of radio journalism: research, running orders, hosting and interviewing.
- 03Bring content on critical and responsible use of media and digital tools to a young audience.
- 04Strengthen links between the radio, youth centres and local civil society.
What we did
- October 2023Visit by thirteen young people from the Gafsa mobile youth centre to Radio Capsa FM and ideation session: seven programme proposals
- 13 October 2023Online selection committee: two proposals chosen for the first cycle
- 26 October 2023Running orders of the two selected programmes finalised
- 31 October 2023Sound elements prepared, pilot recordings made and fast-track hosting training
- 5 November 2023Final production of the first two programmes with guests
- 11–27 December 2023Training in information research and topic selection at the El Guettar youth centre
- 28 December 2023Running orders prepared for the second cycle
- January 2024Running orders, sound elements and pilot recordings finalised
- 19 January 2024Final production of the two second-cycle programmes
Results
Source: project closing report (views measured in the week of release on capsa.tn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok).
What changed
- Fourteen young people produced programmes on topics they chose themselves; eight of them hosted the programmes.
- With no prior journalism experience, the young people received fast-track training, pilot recordings and individual online follow-up; the radio added two visits to those planned.
- In the second cycle the radio travelled to El Guettar, extending access beyond the city of Gafsa.
- Women were well represented: 12 of the 17 people involved in the first cycle.
- The second cycle drew a larger audience than the first: 4,451 views against 3,492 in the week of release.
- The experience convinced the radio that youth centres can become a lasting partner in training a new generation of journalists in the region.
