CARIBBEAN KIDS NEWS
The Dutch Antillean ‘Jeugdjournaal’
The Curacao-based Foundation Youth Into Media (Stichting Youth Into Media) is responsible for the sustainable development of a youth news program – Caribbean Kids News – on television and the internet for the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. The first show of ‘Caribbean Kids News’ was on September 14, 2009 on TeleCuracao.
Caribbean Kids News is a unique program for Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles (Curacao, Bonaire, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba), thus for six very special but quite different islands. For the first time a news program informs young people between 10 and 14 years in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba and gives them a voice in the Caribbean region. Click here for the Caribbean Kids News’s Channel on YouTube.
Free Voice, the developer of the kids news format, is a media organization in the Netherlands that strives for independent and multiform media as well as balanced and reliable journalistic press freedom in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Kids News Network is their special project:
‘News programs for children is since 2004 a theme program of Free Voice. Kids News Network (KNN) initiates and coordinates a worldwide network of kids news with a range of about 20 million viewers. To give more children a voice and to improve the quality of media, KNN starts new kids news in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.’
Caribbean Kids News has its own website: click here.
Karel Frielink
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