Youth Media
Media Training & Amplifying Youth Voices
Offering paid, intensive training and community journalism opportunities for youths who want to grow their reporting, engagement and leadership skills.
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.
12 Months Media Training
Our hands-on media training program provides opportunities for youths to develop job-ready skills for the media, creative and screen industries.
Journalism
Trainees practice media literacy principles, and develop reporting and storytelling skills.
Audio Production
Trainees learn to gather recordings, edit audio files, and tell compelling stories.
Video & Photography
Trainees gain hands-on experience gathering and editing footage to tell their stories.
Video & Photography
Trainees gain hands-on experience gathering and editing footage to tell their stories.
People skills
Trainees gain interviewing, project management, interpersonal and group communication skills.
Technical 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.
Journalism Courses
Podcasting : The Big Idea
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & classroom Support
AI in the newsroom: the ethical approach
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Solution Journalism
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
African Stories
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Mobile Journalism
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & classroom Support
Growing And Engaging Your Audience
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Photography
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Environmental journalism | Why local matters: Safety
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Environmental reporting | Why local matters: Sources
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & classroom Support
Environmental journalism | Why local matters: Storytelling
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Podcasting : Making a podcast
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
The Ethical Journalist’s Toolkit
- 2 Months Course
- Google Certified
- Online & Classroom Support
Join Youth Media Today
Support Youth Media To Develop Media Skills
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.
