The Public Radio Exchange is for producers who want to reach a bigger audience, for stations looking for new voices and new production styles and for listeners eager to critique the emerging, edgier sounds of public radio. All the audio is posted on the PRX web site; it is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for stations to license works for air. And for listeners to, well, listen--free. PRX is "...a smart solution to the problem of excellent and innovative productions failing to reach wide audiences." (We didn't say that, the Boston Globe did!)

College journalists and their advisers are a dedicated lot. The "College Media Advisers" is a website that covers the state of journalism at colleges and universities. No controversy is avoided in its support of student media.

NPR and Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. sponsor a next generation radio project at the annual national college media conference. Nearly 3,000 advisers and students attend the conference and we will again this year be looking for five students to be paired with five professionals to produce stories and a magazine. If you are looking for an application to this project you can get it here. Radio the way it's meant to be... great narrative story telling, commentary and tools of the trade, high end or low. Check out Transom.org.

WNYC's "Radio Lab" is a weekly experiment in storytelling and sound. Hosted by Jad Abumrad, 2000 Public Radio Conference scholarship recipient.

Also at WNYC, Radio Rookies trains young people to use words and sounds to tell true stories about themselves, their families, their communities and the world.

2003 Ear to the Ground (WBEZ Chicago) The 2003 Ear to the Ground webpage is up and the stories have been posted. Mentors and mentees gave their time, heads and hearts to the project, battling temperamental minidisc recorders, elusive interview-ees, never-ending tape logs, fatigue, hunger, and Navy Pier parking. The result is a sample of interesting, engaging radio work by apprentices generous and persistent enough to bring unique stories of themselves and their communities to the radio.

She Got Game A weekly show out of WSHU-FM in Connecticut. Produced and hosted by Tandeleya Wilder, a regular Next Generation Radio mentor at the NABJ conference.

News Service for Black College Students Online A news service designed to promote the journalistic work of students at predominantly black colleges and universities. It's a project of the Black College Communication Association, an organization for faculty members teaching journalism and mass communications at black colleges and universities.

Youth Radio This sleek, well-designed site is a showcase for the talented teens that make up Youth Radio. Through hands-on practice, working relationships with industry professionals, and production of award-winning programming, Youth Radio students learn the basics of broadcasting. Read their commentaries and interviews, comics, fiction and poetry.

C89.5 FM C89.5 FM is a radio station that is operated by students at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School. C89.5 FM has been on the air 24/7 since 1971, broadcasting the newest dance hits. This site features their weekly most requested lists, and articles about the station that have appeared in the Seattle dailies, Rolling Stone, and Teen People. Watch a 5:00 "break dancing" routine by some students on Martin Luther King Day 2002.

KVRX-FM, Austin, TX The student radio station of the The University of Texas at Austin. That means students do everything: deejay, promote, solicit record labels for music, raise money, hang around the studio making fun of passers-by -- everything.