The New Youth Times
The New Youth Times is a television show created by local teenagers at Portland Media Center about civic engagement. It started as a Civic IQ initiative summer intensive in July 2025 with five teen youth workers from different high schools coming together four days a week via a program called Gateway 2 Opportunity, a collaboration between the Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) at the Opportunity Alliance and The Young People’s Caucus (YPC) at The Catherine Cutler Institute. The teens learned media tools and techniques and developed a project that involves thoughtful interviews, news desk segments, special features, funny parody commercials and animations. We celebrated and shared the first episode with a large public event on October 23rd and a Q&A with the producers and collaborators.
The first episode is on our site here! And watch for more episodes coming soon. Reach out to the Education Coordinator, Natalie Conn, to get involved with the show : natalie@portlandmedia.org
The New Youth Times - EPISODE 1
Watch the pilot episode of The New Youth Times featuring interviews with changemakers Swathi Sivasubramanian and Erica King, Fashion Designer Denick Mayele, and two teachers from South Portland High school. There’s also a special segment called Mic-on-the-street and an ad for The Kindness Catalyst and Regression (you’d have to watch to find out what those are!) And more!
Thank you to our supporters and collaborators, The Davis Family Foundation, MYAN (Maine Youth Action Network, YPC (Young People’s Caucus)
