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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 for that week.

This #NPRNextGenRadio project was sponsored by Public Media Newsrooms in Florida.

Our journalist/mentors for this project were:

Rick Brunson, Senior Instructor of Journalism, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Joe Byrnes, Reporter, WMFE, Orlando, FL
Lillian Hernández Caraballo, Housing Reporter, WMFE, Orlando, FL
Mark Schreiner, Assistant News Director, WUSF, Tampa, FL
Veronica Zaragovia, Reporter, WLRN, Miami, FL

Our staff:

Managing Editor – Amy Tardif, Regional Manager, Report for America, Fort Myers, FL
Digital Editors – Laura Gonzalez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Laura Isensee, Independent Editor & Producer, Houston, TX; and Alexis L. Richardson, Independent Editor & Content Strategist, Philadelphia, PA
Audio Tech/Engineers – Patrice Mondragon, Freelance Audio Engineer, Denver, CO; and Tina Tobey Mack, Audio Engineer/Sound Designer (Freelance), Somerville, MA.
Illustrators – Yunyi Dai, Los Angeles, CA; Lauren Ibañez, Houston, TX; and Emily Whang, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Editors – Michelle Baker, Freelance Visual Journalist, Reno, NV; and Kevin Beaty, Denverite, Denver, CO
Visuals Intern – Kyra Parrow, Recent graduate at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Copy Editor – Brent L. Smith, Freelance Copy Editor, Los Angeles, CA

NPR’s Next Generation Radio program is directed by its founder, Doug Mitchell, Consultant, NPR, Washington, D.C.