To create a learning community and provide resources and support to 30 journalists from various media outlets around the U.S. The journalists receive assistance and information through periodic webinars with juvenile justice officials and an interactive online network that reinforces their juvenile justice expertise and enables them to share story ideas and approaches with each other. In the process, the profile and stature of the juvenile justice beat in their home newsrooms is raised, as their colleagues and editors become aware of the story possibilities. The goals of this project are to raise awareness of juvenile justice issues through quality media coverage, advance policy reform and improve the public debate through compelling stories and analysis from an informed media.
