A website claiming to revolutionize how students are perceived in the media launched Nov. 3, dubbing itself ‘CurrentlyOK.com.’ It’s writers? Seemingly average college students who say the average media doesn’t portray youth adequately.

“It’s time for a new type of news,” founder and editor Hunter Ligon said. “Teens and twenty-somethings are used to being portrayed in a negative light, but it doesn’t have to be that way.”

Ligon continued by saying that youth is used to seeing their peers as trouble makers and convicts on television and in the paper, and that there wasn’t an outlet to combat those stereotypes – until now.

“I’m excited to be apart of a project that’ll highlight the struggles as well as successes of average students,” Sports Editor Dave Ngo said. “This is about being heard.”

The website is updated daily and it’s editors say it will engage readers in a way that isn’t typically seen. By incorporating a tone familiar to the target audience and using alternative media concepts, it hopes to attract a base that traditional media outlets do not.

“Right now we’re focusing on just a few schools,” Ligon explained. “Universities like Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma Christian and Oklahoma City. Later we hope to include some of the smaller schools, and maybe even high schools.”

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