WireTap lets journalists listen to youth

"For as long as most of us can remember, newspapers feverishly have courted the young, often with embarrassing results. Looking sometimes like the ultimate outsider tagging after The Kool Kids, we have for decades tried to speak the language and salute the latest icons of youth, frequently only to come across about as hip as a hoedown.

"Perhaps the problem is that we keep trying to speak when we should be listening. The Web affords a world of truly youth-oriented listening posts where patient, insightful journalists can sample the diverse voices of their children.A site I've become interested in recently is WireTap, the 'independent information source by and for socially conscious youth.'"
Source: Editor and Publisher

http://www.wiretapmag.org