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Young Post
'''Y oung Post (YP), South China Morning Post ''' is a supplement of South China Morning Post available to Hong Kong students through subscriptions on weekdays and as a free supplement of the Sunday Morning Post.

History
Young Post, which was established in 1964, is the youth supplement of South China Morning Post. Young Post is available through school subscriptions on weekdays and Sunday Young Post is a supplement of the Sunday Morning Post. Its aim is “Reaching tomorrow's readers today”. The target audiences are between 12 and 20 years old. Young Post deals with topics relevant to the local syllabus. It covers the latest news, views and stories on Hong Kong students, school life, sport and local education. In recent years, YP has started to promote itself in different platforms, such as Facebook (2010), YouTube (2012) and Instagram (2013). The newspaper emphasizes credibility, accountability, knowledge, truth and professionalism as the guiding principles.

Contents
The printed version of Young Post includes the following sections (Although not every section is published daily):


 * News
 * Feature articles
 * Liberal Studies : Analysis of a social issues
 * Roll call : Activities and stories at school submitted by student
 * Face off :Debate on hot topics
 * Brain Game : Different answers to a creative question ; one contestant will be eliminated every week
 * Talking point : Similar to Brain Game, different opinions are expressed according to a question, except it is not a contest
 * Young voices : Argumentative essay in 300 words submitted by students
 * Your say : Letter to the editor
 * Brain bites : Interesting science facts
 * Reviews of movies, music and video games
 * Song lyrics
 * Vocabulary : How to use certain phrases and idioms
 * Listening : Exercises (Sound clips on website)
 * Entertainment : Comics, games and jokes

Junior Reporters’ Club
Young Post invites young readers aged 12 to 20 to write for them and founded the Junior Reporters’ Club in August 2009. Once the readers’ applications are successful, they can pitch story ideas via email or attend their editorial meetings, where they can present their ideas to reporters. As of 2015, there are 900 members. Junior Reporters will be invited to various workshops, such as movie screening, food tasting as well as attending various events and they will be given a deadline for their articles, which will either be published in the print edition or the web edition. In addition to reports, they can contribute to weekly columns such as Top 10 and Talking Points.

The Junior Reporter Manager is in charge of bringing the Junior Reporters to workshops.

==Junior Reporter Awards (JRAs) == In January 2013, the Junior Reporter Awards was held for the first time. Awards with five nominees include Junior Reporter of the Year, Best Cover/Feature, Best Face Off, Best Workshop Report, Best Photograph and Best Op-ed. Also included in the wards is Most Active Junior Reporters, special Editor’s Awards and Beat Award for Best Volunteering Report.

Website
The YP website, which has both desktop and mobile versions, is comprised of the following 8 main sections.
 * 1) News: it centers on current news regarding Hong Kong, China, international, features, science, special reports and sports.
 * 2) Over to you: it is composed of brain games, columns, competitions held by the YP, op-ed mostly written by junior reporters, poems & short stories and letters to the editor.
 * 3) Education: it provides YP readers, especially senior secondary school students with exam tips, listening audios & scripts for practice, some experts’ suggestions & writing samples and the latest news about debating competitions & argumentative essays on various issues.
 * 4) Entertainment: it covers reviews and information on books, movies, music, anime and tech & games.
 * 5) Go-to gurus: it provides advice and news from different aspects including beauty & fashion, careers, food and personal development
 * 6) Events: it talks about the information of a wide variety of recent Hong Kong teen events like exhibitions and musicals.
 * 7) Others: it contains photos, videos and blogs with various themes.
 * 8) Student Library: it is specially designed for the New Senior Secondary students. Many learning resources of Liberal Studies (Personal development, Hong Kong Today, Globalization, Modern China, Energy technology and the environment & Public health) and NSS English Language (Drama, Poems and songs, Short stories, Popular culture, Workplace communications, Debating, Sports communication & Social issues) can be found here.

YouTube
The less formal side of YP is shown on this channel which includes interviews with celebrities, beauty tutorials, features on YP reporters’ visits to different places,art performances, food tasting tests, etc.

Facebook
Through the YP Facebook, readers and their teachers can follow its competitions, Hong Kong teen events, best stories, workshops, discussion groups and all other updated information about YP.

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