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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 #NPRNextGenRadio project was funded by the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Our staff:

Managing Editor – Traci Tong, Freelance Editor, Boston, MA
Digital Editors – Amara Aguilar, University of Southern California, Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California; and Megan Manata, Digital Editor, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, CA
Audio Tech/Engineers – Selena Seay-Reynolds, Freelancer Audio Engineer, Los Angeles; and Yuki Liang, Executive Producer, Annenberg Radio News
Illustrators – Eejoon Choi, Northridge, CA; Lauren Ibanez, Houston, TX; and Emily Whang, Baltimore, MD
Visuals – Mary Kay McFarland, Associate Professor, Reed College of Media at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; and Kevin Beaty, Visual Journalist, Denverite & Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO
Web Developer – Robert Boos, Web Developer/Editor, Minneapolis, MN

Our journalist/mentors for this project were:

Mariana Dale, Early Childhood Education Reporter, KPCC, Los Angeles
Avishay Artsy, Assistant Director of Strategic Communications, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Los Angeles
Julie Patel Liss, investigative reporter and head of journalism at California State University, Los Angeles
Jill Replogle, Senior Reporter, KPCC, Los Angeles
Isabeth Mendoza, Freelance Producer and Writer, Los Angeles

Next Generation Radio program is directed by its founder, Doug Mitchell, NPR, Washington DC.