This Web site is the major online publication of Young People’s Press, a North American news service that empowers a large network of youth and young adult writers to have a voice in the mainstream media and a space at the table of public opinion. YPP articles have been published in approximately 220 newspapers in Canada and 300 papers in the United States as well as on many Internet sites. We want to showcase the issues young people care about, be it pop culture, politics or social issues.

Young People’s Press' newsroom is located in North Bay, Ontario. Thousands of young people have been involved with YPP over the years – writing articles, participating in YPP writing contests and attending YPP writing and media literacy workshops.

Young People’s Press is a free service that accepts non-fiction submissions from youth and young adults between the ages of 14 and 24. The work can be a feature story, opinion piece, first-person story or profile of a youth making a difference. An editor will work with you via e-mail to get you published – it’s that easy. Either send us something you have written already, or think of an articles or articles you would like to write. E-mail a summary of the piece and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Let your voice be heard!

So talk to us! Show us what you've got. You can mail or fax us any of your work, or send a digital copy by contacting us at submissions@ypp.net. Spread the word!! Check out YPP's Submission Guidelines for more details.

National Journalism School Project

Young People’s Press is coordinating a national project with five university journalism schools: Carleton University in Ottawa; Ryerson University in Toronto; University of Regina; Concordia University in Montreal; and University of King’s College in Halifax.

The two-year project ends in 2008 and includes journalism workshops for aboriginal and racialized minority students who may have an interest in journalism as a career. Participants will be asked to write an article after the workshop and YPP will work with them to try and get it published in a newspaper. Articles will also be published on this website.

YPP is committed to keeping in contact with all participants and urging them to write more articles for YPP, in preparation for applying to a journalism school. The project received two-year funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage. We hope the project will demonstrate results, so that the universities will keep it going after project funding ends.

Aboriginal people and racialized minorities are not well represented in the newspaper newsrooms of Canada. A long-term goal is to have journalism schools graduating journalists that represent the diversity of the Canadian population.