Finding, coaching and training public media's next generation.
The Next Generation Radio Project is a 5-day digital journalism and audio training project. Our distance learning program is designed to give competitively selected participants the opportunity to learn how to report, remotely, and produce their own non-narrated audio piece and multimedia story. Those chosen for the project are paired with a professional journalist who serves as their mentor for the week.
NPR’s Next Generation Radio is now all-remote. Our selected cohort will report from where they are.
This video was produced and edited by 2017 alumna Katherine Ellis. Illustrations by Yunyi Dai and Ard Su.
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Here is our 2021 schedule.
We are remote until it’s safe to return to in-person:
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Take a look at our most recent and past projects and all the work our students and fellows have produced.
“I just really wish I could do it again. There isn’t any other program that allows you to work one-on-one with a mentor like that. There should be a NextGen Alumni program so we get to experience it one more time.”
Tyler Bartlam, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, 2016