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A walk alongside the pros: What I learned working in a public radio newsroom

by Isaac Vargas | Aug 12, 2022

Although this week had a lot of Google documents, Zoom meetings and Audition ripple deletes to juggle, I would do it all over again. This week taught me the steps it takes to produce a quality story. It enlightened my perspective of how professionals operate on a...
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The Next Generation Radio Project is a week-long digital journalism training project designed to give competitively selected participants, who are interested in radio and journalism, the skills and opportunity to report and produce their own multimedia story. Those chosen for the project are paired with a professional journalist who serves as their mentor.

This edition of the #NPRNextGenRadio project was funded by Colorado Public Radio, Denver, Colorado.

Our staff:

  • Managing Editors – Michelle Faust Raghavan, independent editor, Portland, OR and Gabriela Saldivia, editor and producer, freelance journalist, Seville, Spain
  • Digital Editors – Megan Verlee, editor, Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO; Hayley Sanchez, editor and host, Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Springs, CO; Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Audio Tech/Engineers – Selena Seay-Reynolds, audio engineer (freelance) and project coordinator, Audiation.fm, Los Angeles, CA; and Patrice Mondragon, tech producer, Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO
  • Illustrators – Yunyi Dai, freelance, Los Angeles, CA; Emily Whang, freelance, Baltimore, MD; Shideh Ghandeharizadeh, illustrator, Los Angeles, CA
  • Visuals – Kevin Beaty, The Denverite, Denver, CO and Mary Kay McFarland, teaching associate professor, Reed College of Media at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
  • Website developer — Robert Boos, Saint Paul, MN

    Our journalist/mentors for this project were:

    • Paolo Zialcita, GA reporter, Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO
    • Richard Yeh, freelance reporter, New York, New York
    • Stina Sieg, Western Colorado reporter, Grand Junction, CO
    • Miguel Otalora, climate reporter, Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO
    • Jenny Brundin, education reporter, Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO

    NPR’s Next Generation Radio program is directed by its founder, Doug Mitchell.

    Creative Commons photo credits: Thomas Elliott, Deborah Lee Soltesz and U.S. Department of the Interior via Flickr; Sound Wave Vectors by Vecteezy