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Facebook : StreetSchool
Twitter : @LaStreetSchool

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StreetPress.com is a news website dedicated to

20-30 yo
Its an open newsroom / a collaborative news
website : our team of journalists coach 200+
volunteer reporters / year

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3000+ articles published

600+ volunteer reporters

contributed to the open
newsroom

400.000 unique viewers

per month

8 full time people working in the

project

Started december 09

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A whole group strategy

funding

Exports its collaborative

model to different activities,
with supportive partners

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Beyond
StreetPress :
Deepening
media
education
Street
School
through a 15 weeks program for 15
young adults selected upon their
motivation (no diploma or previous

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Street School 2014

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In a word

1st Street School in

2012

60 trainers per session

3 months of formation

4 master classes per

session

15 participants formed
each year

75% end up in the media

field

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Why Street School ?

To defend journalism !
Open the doors of professional
journalism
Allow as many youth as possible to
benefit from a free training in
journalism

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Why should we defend

journalism ? For
citizenship and freedom !
Give youth a chance to express itself
and to understand how newsrooms
work
Make them better citizens
Defend freedom of speech

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Who ?
Anyone between 20 and 30, in Paris
and its suburbs
No curriculum needed : we recruit
motivated and energetic youth
Not a social ghetto : the whole point
is to have a mixed team, with
various ages, social and ethnic
origins, various skills
In the end : 600 applications on the
web, 50 interviews, 15 students

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What formation ?
Every saturdays, at the Numa, the
parisian digital innovation center.
2 or 3 trainors each time,
professional journalists, photo
journalists, datajournalists,
freelances, chief editors
Field work during the rest of the
week
Master classes open to all

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Examples of classes
The ABC of journalism : how to
prepare an interview, write a report
+ photoreportage
Television coverage: how to
interview, film, edit, the voice-over
Data journalism : how to find
relevant data, and create a data
visualization
Workshop about cyber security for
journalists etc

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Ex of Master classes
Nicolas Henin, war reporter, ex
hostage
Abel Mestre, extreme right wing
expert, Le Monde
Fully Focused from England + Karike
from Bosnia, 2 media dedicated to
engaged journalism, ran by youth
Le Quatre heures + Ulyces + Ijsberg,
3 websites dedicated to slow
journalism

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And as many publications as

possible, for them to have a
book

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Local elections : 72 hours with 3

candidates,
by Yann Castanier, 03.03.2015
Repats, between african dreams and
return to ones origins, by Chayet Chienin,
06.07.2015
Discover 5 shared gardens
in Paris,
by Mehdi Boudarene,
05.19.2015
How fast food became
chic,
by Juliette Bourgeois,
07.15.2015

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Publications
40+ articles published in mainstream
and specialized medias
All types of subjects covered
Mostly written articles published but
radio and video productions were
also broadcasted

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Webzine
They create and control a website
They post their own work online

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Partners
60 national medias
Several individual meetings with
chief editors for them to see how a
newsroom works
Chief editors and deciders come to
the Street School for Q&A
Whoever intervenes in the program
is reachable and gives its contact
details

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and after Street

School ?
80% of them work now as
journalists, opened a blog or have
editorial activities
Many huge successes
A bridge to StreetPress, Media Maker
and StreetProd

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Thank you