Next Generation Radio

Success Stories
The Latest New Hires to Report
August 15, 2005

Karina Cuevas (left) was a student reporter during the Billboard Latin Music and Latin Grammys radio training projects, in September of 2001. Karina will be an editor and writer for the Rockford, IL Register Star's Spanish news site, Espejo.

Also, the Next Generation Radio project manager is ever so proud to announce that his intern this summer, Emily Schmall, has accepted a job at The Miami Herald. Emily will start work next month as a copy editor for the paper. Emily was Executive Producer for the Summer 2005 Intern Edition.Read Emily's recent New York Press column, "Outside the Impact Zone: The Lonely Death of Fausto LaChapel"

Best Entertainment Reporter - trained by NextGen Radio
August 3, 2005

On Saturday July 23rd, Jenny Castillo (pictured here with her husband, Nelson) won the "Premio Paoli Orlando 2005" award for Best Entertainment Reporter. For Castillo, this is a very big honor, because the audience picks the winner of this prestigious Spanish award through an online voting system. Her hard work is starting to pay off. Jenny was a reporter for "Radio Ondas" at the 2001 NAHJ conference in Phoenix.

Videos of former NPR Interns (including Ira Glass!) talking about what they learned from their internships.

Former NPR Intern on WESAT

Eve Troeh interned for Susan Stamberg in 2000 after graduating from the USC in Los Angeles. She's been a mentor on two of our projects, and now has a story on the death of New Orleans leading Mardi Gras "Indians" and the debate surrounding the Indians and city police.

Former NPR Intern hears "You're Hired."
Jesse Baker, IE Executive Producer in the Spring of 2004, is the new Production Assistant for Weekend Edition Sunday. Jesse has been temping at NPR since being Arts Unit Intern in 2004. She did a piece on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for WESUN 07/17/05.

Amie, the Washington Desk intern at NPR for Summer 2004, has landed a gig as a TV news reporter at the local NBC affiliate station in Hagerstown, MD (NBC 25, WHAG-TV).
She did this piece on her trip to Senegal for Intern Edition.

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 next student project
at Burton High school
November 14-19
San Francisco, CA

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Extra Life by Kyle Orland	Mis-Media by Chantal de la Rionda
The Stitch by Maria-Martina Castro	The Inside Guy by Tom Krymkowski