![]() ![]() Traci Tong, Senior Producer/Director of PRI/BBC’s “The World": Since founding Next Generation in 2000, we’ve gone from teaching students to report and produce a newscast the same day to leading them in developing the deeper stories that are the hallmark of public media in the U.S.Īfter our most recent boot camp at the University of Nevada-Reno, we talked about the lessons we’ve learned during the last 14 years as we’ve worked toward the goal of getting a greater diversity of journalists into public media newsrooms. We have a combined 55 years of experience leading boot-camp style workshops, training college students in the art of public media-style sound gathering, writing, editing and production, all geared toward developing a new generation of storytellers. Traci Tong of PRI’s The World and I have trained radio journalists together since 1994, and cinematographer and audio engineer Tom Krymkowski joined us beginning in 1999. More than 300 students have taken part in the training. We have held more than 50 workshops at conventions, universities and NPR member stations. Dozens more Next Generation graduates are now at public media stations, and several have moved into management as news directors. Among them are Audie Cornish, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered; Celeste Headlee, a fill-in host on NPR’s Tell Me More, now with Georgia Public Broadcasting; and Shereen Marisol Meraji of NPR’s Code Switch. ![]() ![]() Our trainee alumni list includes some of the newer on-air voices in public radio. NPR’s Next Generation Radio started in 2000 as a hands-on, web-distributed training ground meant to lure talented college students, especially students of color, to public radio. ![]()
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