On Conspiracy Theories
Na'jai and Poppy with the author Anna Merlan
The Stories We Trust Shape Us
Youth-produced media exploring misinformation and the questions shaping our community.
What can we trust?
How is technology changing what we believe?
What are adults missing?
Watch
See the week in action
Five days of listening, questioning, recording, and making a radio story from scratch.
Stories
Personal narratives
Every piece here was written, recorded and produced by a New Orleans high school student.
Gallery
Inside the week
Writing, interviewing, recording, editing — five days in the studio and out in the city.
“The message of Be Loud wasn't just said, it was done. The adults lived the values that they taught us.”
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Interviews
Community interviews
Students sat down with the people doing the work — organizers, teachers, reporters, neighbors — and asked them what misinformation costs a community.
On Health MisinformationBeezwax and Lockz with communications director Isis Casanova
On Teen Mental HealthBK and Sunny with School Social Worker Christine LeGuizamo
Reels
Follow alongMade for the Scroll
Could Misinformation Ever Be a Good Thing?
Debunking misinformation on SNAP
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Curriculum
Curriculum
Here you will find a flexible and adaptive curriculum designed to bring the Loud Stories project into your classroom. The hope is that your students will listen and interact with the recorded youth narratives, collaborate in meaningful discussions about the impact of misinformation in their communities, and record and share their own recorded responses as a way of continuing the conversation.
Multiple approaches and options have been provided for each of the activities with the hope of teachers like you fully customizing the experience to meet the individual needs and goals of their classrooms.
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Impactunderstand how misinformation affects their community understand how misinformation affects their community say hearing stories helped them see the issue from a new perspective say hearing stories helped them see the issue from a new perspective believe their voice matters believe their voice matters feel safe and confident sharing their story feel safe and confident sharing their story feel motivated to take positive action on misinformation feel motivated to take positive action on misinformation feel confident expressing themselves feel confident expressing themselves
What happens when you listen
Measured with young people before and after the program. In just one week, youth got more confident on and off the mic to tell their story.
94.4%After the program
94.4%After the program
94.4%After the program
Before71.4%
After88.9%
Before78.6%
After83.3%
Before64.3%
After88.9%
Contact
Say it louder
Partnerships, press, classroom questions, or a story you think we should hear.
info@beloudstudios.org