CFK Reports From: It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Event: Forum
Organized By: Kaiser Family Foundation
Where/When: Barbara Jordan Conference Center; July 19, 2006

The seemingly innocuous online games kids play at the Web sites of companies such as McDonald’s, Kraft, and Hershey are targeted marketing tools for food products, according to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

CFK Reports From: Violent and Explicit Video Games: Informing Parents and Protecting Children
Event: Hearing
Organized By: Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Where/When: June 14, 2006; 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

When it was revealed last year that a popular video game “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” contained a hidden graphic sex scene unlocked by downloadable software, members of Congress waged a war against graphic content in video games.

Youth Communication, the non-profit founded by Keith Hefner in New York City to give young people a voice on the things that matter to them, is now 25 years old—a notable milestone in the notoriously under-funded world of youth media. Lisa R. Rhodes, a former Youth Communication writer herself, looks at how Hefner's organization has grown and thrived, transforming young lives along the way.

The Turn Beauty Inside Out Girls Leadership Retreat 2006 will focus on the music industry.

The Turn Beauty Inside Out (TBIO) Campaign is an ongoing public education effort started by New Moon® Magazine and now coordinated by Mind on the Media.

While parents worry about potential dangers to their children lurking in our web-surfing, IM-ing, text-messaging culture, their efforts to help can be hampered by their own lack of knowledge. The Teenangels program—which trains young people to protect their peers online—is one way around that problem. Tamekia Reece takes a look.

Increased competition from kid-oriented cable networks like Nickelodeon and uncertainty about continued levels of public funding make these difficult times for the producers of children's programming at PBS. Rob Capriccioso spoke with some media experts about the challenge PBS faces, and how it can continue to provide top-notch educational programming.

We all know that today's teens are in crisis, and are worse off in nearly every way than generations past. Or are they? In his newest book, Framing Youth, author Mike A. Males turns a critical eye on the American media's assertion that today's teens are more violent, drugged-out and reckless than ever.

While teens use the Internet day in and day out, new research indicates that many struggle to find their way through the Web's vast stores of information. Rob Capriccioso reports on how educators and Web designers can help create a more teen-friendly Internet.