NextGenRadio

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.

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NPR’s Next Generation Radio projects are hybrid (remote and in-person). 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 schedule.

We do hybrid projects. Some people are in-person, most are remote.

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  • Jan 2-7, 2022, Florida Newsroom-WUSF, Tampa, FL              
  • March 13-18, 2022, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • May 15-20, 2022, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
  • June 5-10, 2022, Saint Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, MO
  • July 17-22, 2022 – Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR
  • Aug 7-12, 2022 – Colorado Public Radio, Denver, CO
  • Sept 11-16, 2022 – Texas Newsroom, San Antonio, TX
  • Oct 9-14, 2022, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, CA
  • Nov 13-18, 2022 (tentative) NAJA Early Career III, Oklahoma City, OK

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See our work!

Take a look at our most recent and past projects and all the work our students and fellows have produced.

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Past Projects

“The connections I have made through the NextGen program have far outlasted the week I spent learning. You’re joining a community that will look out for you, support you and bring you up in an industry that desperately needs us.”

Katherine Ellis, KJZZ Phoenix, 2017