Beatrice Vaillant, director of Somos Jóvenes, and Victor Hugo Leyva, president of the UPEC in Santiago, hand out issue 405 of the magazine to high school students in the library of Elvira Cape. Author: Nelson Volos Melik/ACN
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.- After an absence of almost four years in print and digital versions We are Youngsymbolic magazine for newcomers, returns to the Cuban media scene with renewed vigor and thanks to a group that wants to save its place in the national imagination.
This was announced Jrits director, Beatriz Vaillant Rodriguez, after the first of a series of presentations accompanying the return of the magazine, which took place on May 17 at the theater of the Elvira Cape Provincial Library in this eastern city.
According to Vaillant Rodriguez, who considers herself passionate about professional challenges, for the current group We are Young Giving new life to the publication with which he grew up and which has long been associated with the future of generations of Cubans is both pleasant and difficult.
He said that while the historical essence of the communicative product remains, from the established spaces among its audience, such as the interview sections, the literature, and the central page poster, the publication has opened up to a new dynamic.
We are Young, he elaborated, returns as number 405, which includes the protagonists’ stories about the rebuilding of Pinar del Río after the passage of Hurricane Yan; fashion tips, literature and film suggestions, social media tips like Instagram and many more great suggestions.
Moderated by the President of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) in Santiago, Master of Science Victor Hugo Leyva Soho, the first of the site’s presentations led to a mixed dialogue with secondary school students, in which girls and boys expressed their concerns and thematic suggestions to the magazine’s management.
A similar exchange took place in the central library of Francisco Martinez Anaya of the University of Oriente; There, students of the University College of Journalism and students of the profession not only took home a copy of the magazine, but also reflected on the possibilities We are Young as a space for initiation and training, expanding its geographic reach and making it a true reflection of the interests and aspirations of adolescents and youth across the island.
Return to the ponds We are Young, With a circulation of 30,000 copies and a bimonthly release, it meets the obligations of the country and the Union of Young Communists to save the publications of the Publishing House. April which have filled the imagination of this important age group for many years.
True to its historical essence, Somos Jóvenes includes a new dynamic of 30,000 pieces every two months. Photo: Nelson Hair.
The possibilities of the magazine as a learning space for new journalists were discussed at the exchange at Oriente University Photo: Comunicación UO.
Source: Juventud Rebelde