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Youth Radio Groups

Alaska Teen Media Institute, Anchorage, AK (website)

Albuquerque Youth Radio, Albuquerque, NM (website)

Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Center, Carbondale, CO (website)

Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY (website)

Blunt Radio, Portland, ME (website)

Brooklyn College Radio, Brooklyn, NY

Brown Student Radio, Providence, RI (website)

Chinatown Youth Radio Project, Boston, MA (website)

Curie Youth Radio, Chicago, IL (website)

Cultural Energy Youth Radio Project, Taos, NM (website)

Freedom Radio Project, Berkeley, CA

Hopi High Radio, Polacca, AZ

Indigenous Voices Media, Thoreau, NM

Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, WA (website)

KBOO Youth Collective, Portland, OR (website)

Kids of Cat Youth Media Collective, Eugene, OR (website)

KURA - LP Ouray High School, Ouray, CO (website)

KVMR Static Radio, Nevada City, CA

KZMU Voices of Youth, Moab, UT

Loud and Clear, Salt Lake City, UT (website)

Media Bridges, Cincinnati, OH (website)

NPR's Next Generation Radio, Washington, DC (website)

outLoud Radio, San Francisco, CA (website)

Overdub, Boulder, CO (website)

PRYME Youth Media, Cleveland, OH (website)

Radio Arte, Chicago, IL (website)

Radio Revolution / WJFF, Jeffersonville, NY

Radio Rookies, New York, NY (website)

Radio Rootz, New York, NY (website)

Road Kill Radio, New Haven, CT

Santa Fe Youth Radio Project, Santa Fe, NM (website)

SCAD Radio, Savannah, GA (website)

Teen Attitudes, Alamosa, CO

UNICEF Radio and Voices of Youth: Digital Diaries, New York, NY (website)

Uniquely Spoken, Baltimore, MD (website)

Voice of Youth, Roehnert Park, CA (website)

WAMU Youth Voices, Washington, DC (website)

Weekday High, Seattle, WA (website)

WFHB - FM Rhino's Youth Center, Bloomington, IN (website)

Youth Ideas Radio, New Haven, CT

Youth Mic, New York, NY (website)

Youth Noise Network / Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC (website)

Youth Radio, Berkeley, CA (website)

Youth Radio DC/Latin American Youth Center Art & Media House, Washington DC (website)

Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin, TX (website)

Youth Voice Collaborative, Boston, MA (website)

Zumix, Boston, MA (website)

Learning & Teaching Resources

A Kids Guide to Recording Stories

Audio School: An Inside Look at How Youth are Doing Radio
These guides share advice on radio production from youth producers in an audio format. Visit Transom to hear the guides or download these accompanying .pdf files on vox pops, interviewing, and how to use music effectively.

Guide to Peer Feedback PDF, (or, How to Listen to Other Youth Producers' Work and Have Something Constructive to Say)

Let a Thousand Voices Speak
A guide to youth radio programs in the United States and hints for starting your own from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

Make Your Own Radio Diary

Radio Training Materials, from the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

Organizations that Support Youth Radio

Listen Up!
Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support and projects in order to develop within the field and achieve a powerful youth voice in the mass media world.

NAMAC
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture is a non-profit organization whose members consists of various diverse organizations all devoted to the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts.

NFCB
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters offers workshops and resources and on how public radio stations can start their own youth projects.

Third Coast Festival
The Third Coast Festival is a celebration of the best feature and documentary work heard worldwide on the radio and internet.

Transom
Transom.org is an experiment channeling new work and voices to public radio through the internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.

World Radio Forum
World Radio Forum is an international group of national, community, and internet radio producers and broadcasters who make radio for, with, and by children and youth. WRF members work in broadcasting, education, entertainment, development, and social change.

YMDi
Youth Media Distribution's mission is to improve the distribution of youth-created film, video, radio and new media. YMDi.org provides information and tools that are essential to the visibility of youth-made media.

Youth Media Council
Youth Media Council is an Oakland, California-based organization that focuses on developing youth,particulary of color and low income youth,as media leaders and activists. They also help build the media capacity of youth organizations and the youth movement to support organizing campaigns.

Youth Outlook
Youth Outlook (YO!) is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voices and visions need to be recognized. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression.

Youth Editorial Board

Erika Mahoney
Overdub: Youth Radio Outloud | Boulder, Colorado

Hello, I am Erika Mahoney, a seventeen year old junior at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. I was born in Pasadena, California, and even though the Rockies are beautiful, I really miss the ocean. Anyway, I love to write, sing, dance, play piano, read, act, participate in Model UN, swim, and, of course, produce radio shows. I have been a teen radio producer for KGNU Boulder for over two years now. I got interested in the youth program there after I took a summer course in radio. Soon after, I joined the youth group called Overdub: Youth Radio Outloud. I love being able to produce radio shows because it is such a great opportunity to be able to voice my opinion and the opinions of other teenagers. Journalism is definitely my passion and I plan on studying journalism in college. I write for our school newspaper, I produce radio shows for KGNU, and when I grow up, my dream is to become a television news reporter.

Read reviews by Erika.

Felix Poleheptewa
Hopi High Radio | Kykotsmovi, Arizona

Felix is from the Hopi Resvervation and is in his last year of high school at Hopi Jr/Sr High School in Keams Canyon, AZ. As part of a radio class I've been doing a lot of things concerning radio and a little newspaper. I also know a lot about computers but my knowlegde is limited. About Hopi High is I've been here since 7th grade and have seen changes to the school and codes. Most people know, but not every knows me. My time is spent mostly at my 6th hour class doing work on the computer for my PRX home page. I come from Kykotsmovi on Black Mesa in Northern Arizona. The reason why I joined radio class is because it will give me a chance to express my opinion thru the air and also it will give me a chance to practice with my voice and send it through the internet and others can hear my thoughts on different subjects.

Read reviews by Felix.

Lucia Martinez
KUNM Youth Radio | Albuquerque, New Mexico

I'm Lucia Martinez, I'm part of KUNM's (Albuquerque New Mexico) Youth Radio Program. I grew up around radio, my mom has done a show at KUNM for about 8 years. So when I heard about the Youth Radio project a little over a year ago I jumped in. Youth Radio 89.9 does a show weekly. There are about 14 youth producers and 4 adult producers that guide us along. I love the work i do with Youth Radio. I'm 13, I enjoy reading, writing, radio, photography and music. I intend on becoming a journalist, and I'm really looking foward to being a part of PRX.

Read reviews by Lucia.

About the Project

Why do radio? To have a voice. To reach a lot of people. Because everybody listens to it and it's free. Because it inspires. Because it's visual but it's not about appearance. To tell stories about what youth are going through."

-Youth Noise Network, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina

Youth radio producers in stations, schools and outposts all over the country are discovering how to use radio to inform, entertain and mobilize. From Radio Rookies in New York to outLoud in San Francisco, they're picking up mics, asking questions of their communities, their parents and themselves and realizing the power of their voices.

The Public Radio Exchange, with funding from the Open Society Institute, invites youth producers and leaders, stations and audiences to come together to build this momentum into a national youth radio movement: Generation PRX.

Generation PRX connects youth producers and leaders, works with stations to broadcast more youth radio and provides an online space for peer review and feedback. Generation PRX promotes youth voices and youth-produced radio to help listeners discover the next generation of sound.

What We Do

Create an interactive network
Working with an advisory board of seasoned broadcasters and experienced youth radio producers and leaders, we've created an online space for youth radio groups to share ideas, strategies and materials.

Develop peer feedback to help producers edit and improve work
Through the online network, trained Youth Editorial Board members and Generation PRX members provide review and feedback to their peers. See some of the Youth Editorial Board reviews on PRX.

Build a catalogue of youth-produced radio
As young producers upload their pieces, they help build an online catalogue of youth radio, the first anywhere. This storehouse provides a shared and growing body of content accessible to stations, producers and listeners through PRX. Generate new channels for youth radio distribution

Generation PRX is advocating for greater broadcast of youth-produced radio and exploring new channels for distribution through PRX partnerships with iTunes, Audible, podcasting and internet streaming.

Who Runs Generation PRX?
Johanna (Jones) Franzel | jones@prx.org
Generation PRX Project Director

Jones holds a Masters in the Arts in Education program (with a focus on media and technology) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After a training at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Jones became the bilingual coordinator for the Community Programs Department at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where she co-founded "Youth Noise Network" to train young people in documentary media production. Jones got her Bachelor's in anthropology from Wesleyan University, and is fluent in Spanish and Swedish.