The Cramm spoke with young people from Ukraine and Poland about Russia's war on Ukraine and how it's

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affected them. Here’s part 1.

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You can't change the world unless you know about it. It's that simple.

We'll flat out say it: the same-old news is boring, whatever it happens to be that you start your morning with. We couldn't stand reading or watching the news, but there were things we needed to know. After all, we couldn't rule the world if we didn't know what was happening in it. Our generation - we're the ones that are going to be changing things, and we wanted to be a big part of that. Other people like us did, too. Every day, during break, we would discuss the latest. All our news came from word-of-mouth, so our conversations, as you can imagine, were not very deep.

We had to fix this problem. We needed a quick, fun way to know what was what. A fresh, cool way for can't-yet and first-time voters to get in the know-how, fast. A tongue-in-cheek way to start our AM with laughter, knowledge, and a cup o' cramm.

Thus, The Cramm was born.

Delivered to your inbox every AM, The Cramm offers our generation's perspective on the latest happenings. It's short and straight to the point - while still not lacking in humor - delivering everything you need to know each day, in one text or email. The best part? It's all completely written by a teen who knows the feeling of trudging through boring-old newspaper articles.

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How 18-year-old Olivia Seltzer turned The Cramm, her Gen Z newsletter, into a book

The California teen dives deeper into the issues facing her peers with 'Cramm This Book,' out Feb. 15.

https://www.dailynews.com/2022/02/09/how-18-year-old-olivia-seltzer-turned-the-cramm-her-gen-z-newsletter-into-a-book/



On election night in 2016, a then 12-year-old Olivia Seltzer sat with her parents, glued to the television and waiting to find out who would be the next president of the United States. She didn’t have much interest in politics before and admits she naively thought all of the world’s biggest problems had already been solved.

But being from a Jewish family and attending middle school in Santa Barbara where many of her peers were the children and grandchildren of immigrants, she and her friends had more recently began talking about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks and shared their fears over undocumented loved ones suddenly being deported since it was all over the news. The main issue, she said, was that she and her young friends didn’t have any historical context as to why these things were happening, or still happening. They weren’t being taught about it in public school and mainstream news media outlets certainly weren’t catering to Generation Z viewership.

In January 2017, Seltzer decided she wanted to do her own research and break down the latest headlines for Gen Z in a daily newsletter she’d call The Cramm. She took the money she had received for her 13th birthday and bought the domain name thecramm.com and began delivering the news to her followers in smaller, more easily digestible bits. That newsletter now has over 2.5 million subscribers in 113 countries across six continents. She’s still waiting for her first subscriber in Antarctica.

“Simply put, you can’t change the world unless you know about it,” she said during a recent phone interview from her Santa Barbara home. Seltzer just turned 18, graduated high school and though she’s still weighing her options for college, she said she was accepted to Harvard University. Her first book, “Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF is Going On in the World Today,” a meatier version of her newsletter with a slew of current topics and the history behind them, will be published Feb. 15.

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