We enable youths to build critical skills in journalism and media, produce youth-driven contents and access platforms with national and international reach to build coalitions and impact.
We’re Giving Every Young Person The Chance To Make, Learn and Earn in Digital Media. YFL provides training, resources, and platform for youths by providing a creative outlet for young individuals to publish and showcase their talents in writing, content creating, and storytelling.
Located in Nairobi and working with partners throughout Kenya, we provide hands-on training for youths to produce contents while collaborating with professionals and peers to share their contents and learn marketable skills in media and digital technology.
Our free training and mentoring programs also provide the youths with payments for content produced and used on our platform to ensure they earn an income while studying.
Our hands-on media training program provides opportunities for youths to develop job-ready skills for the media, creative and screen industries.
Trainees practice media literacy principles, and develop reporting and storytelling skills.
Trainees learn to gather recordings, edit audio files, and tell compelling stories.
Trainees gain hands-on experience gathering and editing footage to tell their stories.
Trainees gain hands-on experience gathering and editing footage to tell their stories.
Trainees gain interviewing, project management, interpersonal and group communication skills.
Trainees get mobile photography, social media, web management, fact checking among other skills.
These are provided through short elective courses around key skills through face-to-face, conferences, webinars, seminars, and self guided online learning while working in our paid placement to undertake local media projects.
Podcasting : The Big Idea
AI in the newsroom: the ethical approach
Solution Journalism
African Stories
Mobile Journalism
Growing And Engaging Your Audience
Photography
Environmental journalism | Why local matters: Safety
Environmental reporting | Why local matters: Sources
Environmental journalism | Why local matters: Storytelling
Podcasting : Making a podcast
The Ethical Journalist’s Toolkit
Join Youth Media Today
We are looking for partners and volunteers to support YFL to deliver the training and support of the county based youth media trainees through mentoring, guidance, and signposting.
If you work in journalism, radio, broadcasting, creative and digital media, content creation and/or AI/tech and can commit a few hours a month to support a young person aged between 16-30 in media, we would love to hear from you.
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