Olivia Seltzer
Founder "The Cramm"
Olivia Seltzer is the 16 year old founder of The Cramm, an online news outlet designed for Gen Z. Olivia has written over five hundred newsletters for The Cramm, been featured in Teen Vogue, the TODAY Show, and NPR, as well as quoted in Forbes and The Economist, and has accumulated readers in over 100 countries around the world with a monthly viewership of 2.5 million. She has interviewed and connected with a multitude of inspiring young people, and traveled to different college campuses starting a grassroots movement to educate the world’s future. Her goal? Changing the world – one Cramm at a time – and creating activists out of the next generation by informing them about the world’s happenings.
Talk: News(letter) is the shit: Politics for Gen Z
"Traditional news sources are primarily written by and geared toward an older demographic, and unfortunately, the don't always connect to my generation." 15-year old Olivia Seltzer gets up every morning at 5 am, summarizes international news for her peers and sends a newsletter to over 100 countries. Sham Jaff, a young German political scientist, does something similarly: Her weekly newsletter covers the sometimes convoluted world affairs in a precise, yet approachable language. Both women have something in common that gives them a head start over big news corporations: they speak the language of their audience.
GERMAN
Die 15-jährige Kalifornierin Olivia Seltzer steht jeden Morgen um fünf auf, fasst das Weltgeschehen für Gleichaltrige zusammen und verschickt ihren Newsletter in 80 Länder. In diesem Talk tritt sie in den Dialog mit Sham Jaff, deren Newsletter "what happened last week" ein ähnliches Ziel verfolgt und mehrere tausend Menschen jede Woche prägnant und präzise durch das unübersichtliche Weltgeschehen lotst. Die beiden jungen Frauen sind den großen Medienhäusern einen entscheidenden Schritt voraus: sie sprechen die Sprache ihrer Leser*innen.
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