Special thanks to:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
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 #NPRNextGenRadio project was funded by The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Our staff:
- Managing Editor – Traci Tong, Freelance Editor, Boston, MA
- Digital Editors – Amara Aguilar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and Crystal Willis, KUNR Public Radio, Reno, NV
- Audio Tech/Engineers – Selena Seay-Reynolds, Next Gen Radio Lead Audio Engineer, Los Angeles, CA; and Yuki Liang, Los Angeles, CA
- Illustrators – Eejoon Choi, Northridge, CA; Lauren Ibanez, Houston, TX; and Ard Su, New York, NY
- Visuals – Michelle Baker, Freelance Visual Journalist, Reno, NV
- Web Developer – Robert Boos, Web Developer/Editor, Minneapolis, MN
Our journalist/mentors for this project were:
- Anh Gray, Audio Coach, The GroundTruth Project, home to Report for America, Reno, NV
- Tim Lenard, Visual Journalist, The Nevada Independent, Reno, NV
- Jazmin Orozco-Rodriguez, Reporter, Kaiser Health News, Elko, NV
- Regina Revazova, Founder, Open Conversation, Phoenix, AZ
- Natalie Van Hoozer, Bilingual Reporter, KUNR Public Radio, Reno, NV
The Next Generation Radio program is directed by its founder, Doug Mitchell, NPR, Washington DC.