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Communication Timeline 1960 to Present | 1960 | 1970 | 1975 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005| 2006| 2007 | To Return to the Short Version of the Timeline click here. |
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Youth Communication celebrates its 25th year Youth Communication’s 25th anniversary celebration honors the 2,000 young people who have written for the two magazines since 1980. A sold out crowd of 800 people at the Symphony Space theater enjoyed a 50-minute play based on a dozen stories. A short film executive-produced by filmmaker Ric Burns highlighted how editors train students to produce riveting stories. The event grosses over $250,000.
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Book Sales Boom
In her first full year as marketing director, former NYC writer Loretta Chan’s boosts sales to over $90,000. We publish four new Quick Insight booklets and a book of essays submitted by our readers over the years. We reprint our book on violence, Things Get Hectic, after Simon and Schuster lets it go out of print. Represent wins major publishing award
The Association of Educational Publishers names the September 2005 issue of Represent the best single-theme educational magazine published in 2005. The winning issue focused on foster care youth involved in the criminal justice system. Stories Appear in Popular New Book
Free Spirit, the biggest publisher of teen self-help books in the country, reprints 27 Youth Communication stories in The Courage to Be Yourself: True Stories by Teens About Cliques, Conflicts and Overcoming Peer Pressure. Daily News Op-Ed on Nixzmary Brown
Represent writer Natasha Santos publishes an op ed piece in the New York Daily News about the failure of the child welfare officials to prevent the murder of 7-year old Nixzmary Brown while they were investigating allegations of abuse in her home. |
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