Next Generation Radio

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  • Location: Washington, DC

Next Generation Radio is a series of hands-on radio training projects co-sponsored by NPR and non-profit media/journalist organziations. The projects are designed to give undergraduate, graduate and 1st year professionals, an opportunity to report and produce their own radio story. Prior radio experience is not required.
Also, a profesional journalist is assigned to the participant and serves as the participant's mentor during the project. Additionally, during each project we have sessions in recording techniques, writing, voice and on-air presentation, and audio production. Each participant and mentor produces one story as part of a team of people producing a newsmagazine.
So far, we have placed over 50 past participants in public radio whether at NPR or around the public radio system. Yes, we target young people who want to become public radio journalists. We are especially targeting (but not exclusively) minority journalists.

Series

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NPR's "next gen radio" spent a week in Kansas City in late October 2008 at the National College Media annual conference.

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127 Pieces

Pieces conceived, reported, written, edited and produced by college journalists


Pieces

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An estimated 150,000 American children are "unschooled." Jeff Swingle examines the motives behind this movement.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
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Christina Tran finds out how the Spanish-speaking community relied on this important source of information and what this loss means to the community.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 02:27
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At a Fourth of July parade, Sarah Laskow observes the national and international flavors that compose the United States.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A suburban family?s secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to light in this personal essay by Laura Mirsch.

Bought by KUT, PRX to iTunes, and WUAL


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
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Danielle Trusso interviews a gospel group to find out how Hurricane Katrina survivors are using music to find inspiration and hope for their futures.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:57
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When the pressure rises to give a perfect performance, many collegiate and professional musicians turn to beta-blockers to calm the symptoms of anx...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
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The Washington, D.C., district of Penn Quarter lacks a grocery store. The Balducci's store that was planned fell through.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:35
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Jacqueline Jove takes a look at the unconventional teaching style of The Children's Studio School in downtown Washington, D.C.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:47
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Courtney Kerrigan wonders about the future of advertisements. If DVRs remain, what is the future of ad-skipping? She researches the possibility tha...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
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Kelly Reeves tromps out to a chestnut orchard to see a Maryland group pollinate a sapling and to find out why volunteers spend so much time trying ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 05:10