Five students are working with mentors, getting hands-on experience in writing, interviewing and recording. The students will produce a radio newsmagazine, OutCast, over the course of the week.
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Listen to OutCast (28:56)
Sharlene Newman
Mentor: Brent Wolfe - Reporter, WUNC, Chapel Hill NC
Sharlene will entering UIC's International Studies program next semester. She interns at 88.7 WLUW as a news broadcaster, including environmental weekly reports, trains incoming students and deejays a music format show.
Jes Burns
Mentor: Matthew Martinez - Producer, Weekend Edition Saturday
Jes just graduated from the University of Oregon with a Masters in Literary Nonfiction (writing long-form magazine articles and nonfiction books); naturally, all of this unrelated experience made her the perfect fit for the student project in RADIO. She'll be traveling straight from the NLGJA conference to DC to begin an internship at All Things Considered.
Mac Henry
Mentor: Angie Blake - Assistant Professor, Communications and American Studies,
Miami University of Ohio
Mac hasn't been around this many people in months. She leads wilderness trips during the summer. This season so far, she has been in Northeastern Quebec, and Northern Maine, canoeing.
She graduated Carleton College in 2004. She interned at NPR's Radio Expeditions in spring, and worked at Carleton's student radio station.
Tania Unzueta
Mentor: Tish Valva - Executive Producer, XM Satellite Radio
Tania started her radio career at Radio Arte in Chicago in January of 2001. Her work has been nominated for several radio awards, although has not received any (yet). Her work was broadcast on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty Eight, when she interned there. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies.
Hywel Tuscano
Mentor: Sea Stachura, Producer, WUWM-FM, Milwaukee.
Hywell is a fourth-year English major at the University of British Columbia. He is the coordinating editor at the student newspaper, The Ubyssey, and also freelances features for the Vancouver gay and lesbian weekly, Xtra!West. Hy worked at the Queer Film Festival for 3 years. His first name is Welsh, and last name is Italian, and his heritage is Filipino.
