What is the most important element in a successful teen publishing program?
The adult editor. Finding that person (and providing him or her what they need to get the job done) is the single most important aspect of a youth journalism project. You also need a good project director or executive director, a good desktop publishing person, and someone to handle the logistics of circulation (that may all be the job of one person). But without a first-rate editor, you will have a hard time running a good youth development program, and you will not produce a publication that is really worth all the effort to design, print, and distribute.
