Youth Media Project class with final certificates
MFP Voices

Full Circle Moments: Youth Media Project Is Back for Jackson-Area Teenagers. Apply Now.

Mississippi Youth Media Project students are full-time, paid journalists working in their downtown Jackson, Miss., newsroom during the YMP summer programs. New Program Manager Melishia Grayson is an educator who came of age mentored by Dr. Bob Moses at Lanier High School to believe that young people can and need to use their own voices to shape new media narratives about themselves—and bring solutions to their communities. Enrollment for the 2023 summer programs is open now.

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MFP Voices

Tis the Season for Believing in Mississippi’s Potential

We need your investment in our vision for it to grow and to care for our people—Journalism costs money. But what I want you to know today is that each of you is part of this movement to gather up Mississippians past or present, and those who want to see us succeed, to believe and take collaborative action toward shared progress and change for all our people.

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