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The new year is almost here. Can you believe it? So we're counting down some of our favorite things from 2021.

Today, we're sharing our picks for the biggest news stories of the year. I'm Bethany Van Delft. It's Thursday, December 30th,

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The Week Jr. is a news magazine that keeps kids up to date on what's happening in the world.

And get this, they have a junior council made up of cool kids who are interested in journalism.

We sat down with junior council member 13-year-old Arav, who shared the findings of the Week Junior's Voices Survey.

So thank you so much for joining us. We're so excited to talk with you. Could you introduce

yourself to our listeners? Yeah, so I'm Aerov. I'm part of the Week Junior Council at the Week

Junior. So really what the Week week junior council is is that it's

more of a way for like people or kids between eight and 14 can really express themselves as for me

uh i'm 13 i have a dog maverick and i have two siblings. But outside of there, not really too much. That's super

interesting. I mean, that already sounds super interesting. Tell us a little bit about the week

junior. I know it's a weekly magazine for keeping kids 8 to 14 informed about the latest news around

the world. What do you like about the magazine? So what I think really like wrapped me into the week junior is that it's more like politically neutral, right?

Like you don't have to listen to, oh my God, the Democrats are so bad.

Oh my God, the Republicans are so bad.

And it also doesn't really like have that like attitude of the world's going to end tomorrow um it's more of just okay here's the

positive here's the negative how can you help and then it also has more like you know fun like pages

right um one thing that i really like liked about it or when i first saw the magazine was probably

a section on page eight, which is called

the big debate. So every week, they give out a different question. And you can respond to whether

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