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Combining my passion for public health and storytelling

by Alejandra Silva Hernández | Jul 15, 2022

A year ago, I had just wrapped up my digital storytelling class at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health when I learned about the NPR Next Generation Radio program. That’s when it clicked that journalism might be a way to combine my passion for public...
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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 edition of the #NPRNextGenRadio project was produced in collaboration with Oregon Public Broadcasting in July 2022.

 

Our staff:

  • Managing Editor – Michelle Faust Raghavan, Independent Editor, Portland, OR
  • Digital Editors – Amara Aguilar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and Heather C. Gomez (Jicarilla Apache), Freelance Editor, Dulce, NM
  • Audio Tech/Engineers – Selena Seay-Reynolds, Next Gen Radio Lead Audio Engineer, Los Angeles, CA; and PJ Shahamat, Tech Producer, KCRW, Northridge, CA
  • Illustrators – Eejoon Choi, Northridge, CA; Natalia Polanco, Orlando, FL; and Yunyi Dai, Baltimore, MD
  • Visuals – Michelle Baker, Freelance Visual Journalist, Reno, NV; Mary Kay McFarland, Associate Professor, Reed College of Media at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Data Editor – Yoohyun Jung, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA
  • Web Developer – Robert Boos, Web Developer/Editor, Minneapolis, MN

Our journalist/mentors for this project were:

  • Claire Caulfield, Independent Producer, Chicago, IL
  • Tom Goldman, Sports Correspondent, NPR, Portland, OR
  • Donald Orr, Announcer/Producer, OPB, Portland, OR
  • Jess Abeita, Audience Engagement Manager, Underscore News, Portland, OR
  • David Rodriguez, Independent Producer, Pasadena, CA

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