BBC Young Reporter Competition 2022 - Winterstoke Hundred Academy

Do you know young people with stories to tell? The BBC Young Reporter Competition 2022 has now launched so we want to hear from them!

This is our annual opportunity for 11-18 year olds to share a story about what matters to them and which they think the BBC should be reporting.

It’s open to young people across the UK and the winners will get to work with teams like Newsround, BBC Breakfast or The One Show to produce their story for TV, radio, online or on social media with the help of BBC journalists, producers and programme-makers.

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To enter, young people need to upload their story suggestions and tell us why they want to tell it on this online form.

Story ideas

This is the fourth time we’ve run the competition and the theme for entries is simply: Me and My World.

Story ideas can reflect a personal insight or experience or be issue-based. We also want to know why the entrant(s) think it is a story BBC audiences should see, hear or read. We are looking for original story idea outlines, not fully finished reports or features.

Young people can enter individually or as a group. The judging will take in two age categories – 11-15 and 16-18 year olds – and there will be national and regional winners and we will announce them all in June.

Judges include Huw Edwards, Naga Munchetty, Greg James and Alex Jones from The One Show!

All the details, including more about the categories and how to enter, are available on www.bbc.co.uk/youngreportercompetition and the closing date is 27 March 2022.

Previous winners have reported on topics including the positive impact of volunteering, stammering, exam policy issues, the lack of diversity in gaming characters and experiencing early menopause.

Last year, 17-year-old Ben worked with BBC Sport to report on what it’s like to be an apprentice footballer; 14-year-old Wilimena shared her story about using music to help her manage Tourette’s Syndrome; while 16-year-old Hazel asked why the Scottish school curriculum doesn’t represent her and other young people better.

Need more inspiration? Here’s an overview of all of last year’s winning stories

Supporting resources

To help you promote this opportunity there are posters you can print and share.

BBC Young Reporter are also offering workshops about what makes a great journalistic story – get in touch if you want to book a session before the end of March: [email protected]

And watch this space for details about the BBC Young Reporter Festival which will include other activities to support storytelling skills, including a BBC Teach ‘Share Your Story’ Live Lesson.

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