By Lily Zhang, Senior, North Allegheny High School The One Young World opening ceremony inspired delegates, counselors, and observers alike, featuring the performances by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh as well as speeches by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, President Bill Clinton, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus, and singer/activist Bob Geldof. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance introduced delegates to one of the many cultural Read more [...]

What is One Young World (OYW)? One Young World is a global forum for young leaders around the world from ages 18-30. The purpose is to unite the world’s brightest young men and women, to ensure their opinions and ideas are heard about problems all over the world. According to the One Young World official website, “The four-day Summit will serve as a platform for delegates, supported by high-profile counselors, to address and identify solutions to the same issues that world leaders tackle every Read more [...]

Jeremy Gilley is truly a visionary. Gilley envisions a world where for just one day the hate stops. In 1998 Jeremy Gilley started an organization known as Peace One Day. Peace One Day's original goal was to get the United Nations to recognize one day as a global day for peace. After three long years they finally achieved their goal on September 7th 2001. A ceremony honoring his achievement and announcing the day to the world was planned for the morning of September 11, but the ceremony was postponed Read more [...]

  Years ago, while home in her native Kazakhstan, Mila Sanina received a phone call. The voice on the other end of the line told her that he knew where her mother worked and advised her against publishing her journalistic pieces. Sanina nearly gave up reporting after that. As Sanina found, journalism is not always perceived in the same way in each and every country. Reporters have the duty, sometimes perilous, sometimes disparaged, of functioning as the primary fonts of information Read more [...]

It’s six-thirty in the morning, and you reach for the iPhone on your nightstand as you’re awoken by the shrill sound of your alarm clock. You see the New York Times’ latest breaking news notification on the home screen of your phone, and you decide to read it. As you head downstairs and turn on the television, you see the very same piece being presented by an NBC Morning News anchor. You walk out the door on your way to work and nearly trip over the daily newspaper, just delivered to your doorstep Read more [...]