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Teen Voice – The news channel for teenagers
Teen Voice - A channel made to get teenagers interested in news.
Soch: news for Pakistan’s youth
Youth literacy rate in Pakistan is estimated to be 53 percent and, in an age of digital media, even those who can read are slowly giving up newspapers. Soch or Think offers fresh and alternative views on some of the most pressing issues in the region.
Buggle: a 1970’s approach to 21st century TV
As the advent of the internet, and an increase in mobile devises, seeks to threaten televisions dominant position at the centre of media consumption, Ashley Fraser looks at how TV can embrace these technologies to recapture the teenage audience.
‘Yoof’ News
Teenagers are turning away from news in their droves. Despite the plethora of online and offline sources that now exist to provide us with our daily dose of news, sport and entertainment, none have managed to capture a large youth audience. Ashley Crowson sets out his plan to introduce Britain's teenagers to news.
So what’s new…
Watching the news remind us of our parents forcing us to switch over at six o’clock to catch the events of the day. In 2009, Matthew Robson aged 15, helped compile a report about teenage media habits that revealed that teen’s today don’t consume ‘traditional’ media.
Hedgehogs, blue balls and monkeys
Boxing, astronomy, and crosscountry skiing. Phone scam in Taiwan. Hedgehogs and climate change... A roundup of The Breaker stories, in audio. And a behind-the-scene podcast of how our edition took shape.
Editor’s Blog
Bournemouth Council has been under the microscope for all the wrong reasons lately but today The Breaker has…
Poole bus driver makes directorial debut
“I was suffering from terrible stage fright. From then on, I swore never to act again,” he chuckles, sipping a beer.
At 62, Mr Mitchener is putting final touches to his pantomime production on Robin Hood, which he has written, produced, directed and self-financed, over the past 18 months. “I did not want to act, but was curious to know what goes on behind the stage and what goes into a theatre production,” he adds.
‘Music is key’ says Poole publican
Poole's publicans are turning to to music and comedy to beat the economic downturn.
The Portsmouth Hoy's Jeremy Thompson believes live entertainment could be the key to keeping customers interested:
“In this [economic] climate it’s not good enough to just be a pub... You need to give people a reason to come to you.”