Radio-TV grad works with MTV

K’Lynn Sloan, a 2007 graduate of the UM radio-television department, has been chosen by MTV to serve as a citizen journalist contributing to MTV’s Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 election coverage.

Sloan will submit weekly multimedia reports on MTV’s social activism Web site, think.mtv.com, and will keep a blog discussing political and social issues affecting Montana youth.

“I couldn’t have invented a more perfect job for myself,” she said. “I’ve been a political hobbyist for a long time, but also grew up very passionate about youth involvement in social causes like volunteering and activism. I hope I’ll be able to inspire young Montanans to get involved and show that even voices in small Montana towns matter.”

Sloan also looks forward to tackling other issues such as education, the environment and exploring whether young people in Big Sky Country feel connected to national issues.

She will be a one-person band, producing reports to inform young people on the issues that matter to them the most.

She just returned from a three day “Journalism Boot Camp” at the MTV headquarters in New York City, where she met her 50 other counterparts, discussed political issues facing other young voters nationwide and learned about her new assignment.

“It was refreshing to me that a lot of the basics of reporting we talked about in New York were review for me,” Sloan said.