Youth Media Centre

The Youth Media Centre is a free programme that supports young people to engage with mainstream media through coaching and group training. It offers 1:1 coaching and group sessions to build skills in pitching stories, writing op-eds, and participating as media panelists, and connects participants with industry journalists. The centre is aimed at young people with lived experience of injustice who want to use media for advocacy.

1:1 coaching and group training; upskilling in pitching, op-eds and media appearances; opportunities to work alongside industry journalists; support to use media for advocacy

Open to anyone aged 15–25 who has a lived experience of injustice and is interested in raising awareness through media campaigns; the programme encourages First Nations people, people with disability, refugees and people seeking asylum, people of colour and unwaged change makers to apply.

Contact the Youth Media Centre Lead via the provided email to express interest; FYA will be in contact to design a training program and arrange appointments or group sessions.