How social media affects the ways two Tulsa teenagers get their news

• 
  Robby Korth
  
  

  Robby Korth covers training for StateImpact Oklahoma. He grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma and Fayetteville, Arkansas and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. Before working at StateImpact, he lined larger training for The Roanoke Times newspaper in Virginia.

• 
  Kateleigh Mills
  
  

  Kateleigh Mills returned to KOSU in December 2019 as Special Projects Reporter, following a year-long stint at KWBU in Waco, Texas.
  Previously, Mills was a news assistant and All Things Considered host for KOSU from March to December 2018.
  She accomplished her undergraduate diploma at the University of Central Oklahoma in December 2017. While learning journalism {and professional} media, she labored with the UCO’s journalism employees to reinvent the campus newspaper for a extra multimedia objective – becoming a member of with the campus radio and tv stations for news updates and internet hosting public boards with campus teams.
  The Edmond-raised reporter was editor-in- chief of her school newspaper when it received the Society of Professional Journalism award for Best Newspaper in Category B. Mills additionally obtained the Oklahoma Press Association Award for ‘Outstanding Promise in Journalism’ at the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame occasion in 2017. She can also be the Oklahoma Collegiate Media Association’s recipient for ‘College Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ in 2017.

StateImpact is on a listening tour with Oklahoma’s youth. And we’ve introduced alongside our microphones.

Nathalie Valero and Elodie Musungayi are Tulsa teenagers who spoke about how social media is amplifying youth voices and the way it impacts psychological well being for them and their friends.

“Because of platforms like Tik-Tok and like Instagram, people are talking a lot more,” Musungayi stated. “It allows people who are younger to get their voices out.”

Listen beneath to listen to extra.

This dialog was produced with help from the Education Writers Association.

The mission of the Education Writers Association is to strengthen the neighborhood of training writers and enhance the high quality of training protection to raised inform the public.