CBI Conference
October 24-30, 2005

NPR is sponsoring a student training project at the College Broadcasters, Inc. conference in Kansas City, MO. Six students are working with mentors, getting hands-on experience in writing, interviewing and recording.
The students will produce a radio newsmagazine over the course of the week.
Read a list of sessions for which the project team was panelists.

Listen to the radio program (34:00)

Check out the Photo Gallery
Photos of Erika and the "Ghosts at the Roasterie" story

Erika Solomon - Sophomore, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Mentor: Deanna Garcia, Reporter NPR member station WXXI - Rochester, NY.

Patricia Li - Graduate student, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Mentor: Beth Graham, News Director, NPR member station WVPE, Elkhart, IN

Adeline Goss - Senior, Brown University, Providence, RI
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Mentor: Eve Troeh, Freelance Reporter/Producer - New Orleans, LA


Rita Garcia - Senior, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
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Mentor: Bill Zeeble, Reporter NPR member station KERA, Dallas, TX

Elizabeth Dwoskin - Recent graduate, Columbia University - New York, NY
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Mentor: Sarah Hughes, Reporter, NPR member station WAMU, Washington, DC


LaToya Dennis - Graduate Student, Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
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Mentor: Elaine Heinzman, Production Assistant, NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" Washington, DC

Nicole Beemsterboer - Senior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Mentor: Sarah Hulett, Reporter Michigan Public Radio, East Lansing, MI

About Us

Next Generation Radio is a series of one-week, student radio training projects co-sponsored by NPR and several journalist and media organizations. The projects are designed to give students who are interested in radio and journalism an opportunity to report and produce their own radio story.

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The nation's largest
student media convention
October 24-30
Kansas City, MO