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"NYRA Freedom" is the monthly online newsletter of the National Youth Rights Association. Its inaugural issue was published on July 24, 2001, and was distributed on NYRA's national Yahoo Group e-mail list. Originally written by Ryan Bolz, the newsletter began with a naming contest. Several names were suggested by the NYRA membership, and of those suggestions "NYRA Freedom" was chosen and used in the Volume 1, Issue 2, issue.
Bolz saw the newsletter through its first year and created the basic format for the newsletter that is still used to this day. In August of 2002, Brad White, then the NYRA Publicity Director, took over the job of writing the newsletter. White made a short-lived attempt that month to make a purely web-based (not sent through e-mail) version of the newsletter, and www.nyrafreedom.org was created for that purpose. While it was a more expansive and better looking format, it was not to last as "NYRA Freedom" returned to its regular format the following month.
It was with Volume 3, released on January 29, 2003, that "NYRA Freedom" fell to its longest serving editor - Scott Davidson. Davidson oversaw the newsletter for four volumes - through the period of NYRA's most rapid expansion. Consequently, articles in "NYRA Freedom," once short, one-paragraph blurbs have become longer and longer to cover all of the news. Pictures have also been added from time to time, and typically, articles from the newsletter double as articles on NYRA's website (www.youthrights.org). Alex Koroknay-Palicz has edited issues of "NYRA Freedom" when NYRA was in between editors.
From November 2005 to December 2006, Adam King worked with Scott Davidson for 12 issues. King was responsible for editing the newsletter and adding features of NYRA notables. In June of 2006, King worked extensively for four days to convert all of the previous issues of the newsletter into HTML for NYRA's website. To give the newsletter a more respectable look, he created a masthead for the publication and he applied for an ISSN from the United States Library of Congress. King received notification of the Libary's approval to grant "NYRA Freedom" an ISSN in September 2006.
"NYRA Freedom" is currently in between editors.
It is estimated that "NYRA Freedom" has an audience of at least 7,000 members, supporters, and other visitors. When doing a Google search of the publication, one can find various mentions of "NYRA Freedom," including an educational site that has distributed the newsletter over its mailing list from time to time. If anyone is interested in writing pieces for the publication or writing letters to the editor, feel free to email the editor.
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