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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 NPR stations WUSF in Tampa, FL and WMFE in Orlando, FL.

Our journalist/mentors for this project were:

Rick Brunson, Senior Instructor of Journalism, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Mark Schreiner, Assistant News Director, WUSF, Tampa, FL
Veronica Zaragovia, Reporter, WLRN, Miami, FL
Ryan Vasquez, News Manager, WUFT, Gainesville, FL
Jessica Meszaros, Reporter & Host, WUSF, Tampa, FL

Our staff:

Managing Editor – Amy Tardif, Regional Manager, Report for America, Philadelphia, PA
Digital Editors – Crystal Willis, KUNR, Reno NV; Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and Dr. Amara Aguilar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Audio Tech/Engineers – Selena Seay-Reynolds, Audio Engineer (Freelance) & Project Coordinator, Audiation.fm, Los Angeles, CA; and Tina Tobey Mack, Audio Engineer/Sound Designer (Freelance), Somerville, MA.
Illustrators – Lauren Ibanez, Houston, TX; Shideh Ghandeharizadeh, Los Angeles, CA; and Yunyi Dai, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Editors – Kevin Beaty, Denverite, Denver, CO and Jaz’min Franks, Freelance, St. Louis, MO
Copy Editor – Brent Smith, Freelance Copy Editor, Los Angeles, CA
Web Developer – Robert Boos, Web Developer/Editor, Saint Paul, MN

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

Creative Commons photo credits: Rene Rivers via Flickr; Sound Wave Vectors by Vecteezy