![]() ![]() Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Thanks for joining us.Ĭopyright © 2019 NPR. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Olivia Seltzer is the founder of The Cramm. We want the real news, but we do want it in a way that speaks to us. I think a lot of times there are news sources, such as, like, Scholastic News for kids, that are geared towards kids, but I think a lot of times it feels like the news is being dumbed down for teens, which is not what we want. SELTZER: I don't think it's necessarily a lost cause, but I think, also, if traditional news sources want to appeal to young people, they actually need to bring in young people. GARCIA-NAVARRO: I have to ask you - what do you think traditional news outlets can do to appeal to younger audiences? Or is it just a lost cause? And I think that that's really important that that's all being represented in the news because there's a viewpoint I present, but I also want to see the viewpoint of other teens from different backgrounds. And I think that's really important because these are teens that come from a variety of religions, of social classes, of backgrounds, of different races and ethnicities. And they actually will research news stories, and they'll send in any stories that they think deserve to be written about. SELTZER: So I actually have an editorial team of teens from all over the world. Do you think about the kinds of stories that might appeal to sort of a different demographic? And that's something that the mainstream media struggles with, too, not only to appeal to teens but to appeal to diverse teens. GARCIA-NAVARRO: The census shows that, for the first time, a majority of kids under 15 are nonwhite. And if it's not, then we'll make adjustments because it's really important to me that everything is the most accurate it can be. And they'll just read over it and kind of edit it and make sure that everything's good. After I'm finished writing The Cramm, then I give it to my parents. A lot of my friends have political views on both sides of the political spectrum and I don't want to alienate anyone. and I spend about an hour reading over pretty much every news source in existence because I think it's really important that I am giving an unbiased point of view. SELTZER: So I wake up every day at 5 a.m. GARCIA-NAVARRO: In a world where the phrase fake news is bandied about at the highest levels, how are you fact-checking your news? Do you have an editing process? And I think that's something that - I've heard young people talking about it at school a lot, but I haven't necessarily heard adults talking about that unless they're parents and they're concerned for their kids. But lately, there's been an issue where people will be hospitalized because they will have severe respiratory illness after vaping. And vaping is incredibly popular among young people. So lately, there's been a lot going on with vaping. It's not necessarily going to be the top story at every news source, but it is going to be the top story in the eyes of young people. And also, everything I write, I'm writing it from a young person's perspective, and I think that that's really important. So I write The Cramm exactly how I talk to my friends. How do you write the news that's different than the way something like NPR would, you know, the mainstream media, so to speak? GARCIA-NAVARRO: We saw you profiled in Teen Vogue, which has gotten a lot of attention for its political coverage. But what I also noticed was that there was no news source for young people, so no one I knew was actually reading or watching the news and turning this interest into anything. SELTZER: So pretty much right after the 2016 presidential election, I noticed that all of my peers at my junior high school - the only thing they're talking about was news and politics. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So why did you decide to create The Cramm? OLIVIA SELTZER: It's so great to speak with you, too. Olivia Seltzer is 15, and she's created a daily newsletter that covers the day's top headlines for her peers. Here's one that's attempting to reach a coveted audience - teens. We interview a lot of journalists on our program.
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