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Growing Up, Getting By: A Radio Rookies Special

Recent Rookie Yesenia interviews at Washington Square Park (from the Radio Rookies blog).

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Added by Jones Franzel on November 12, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Producer's Corner: If These Walls Could Talk

Hip Hop Night in the Dayroom If These… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on November 5, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

PRX Pointers: Creating Playlists

The PRX help desk is at it again - this time, compiling a how to for those of you who have wondered how to make, manage and listen to playlists.… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on October 21, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Anatomy of an interview gone wrong

There are good interviews and not-so-good interviews and then, in the case of the band Sigur Ros speaking with Bryant Park Project's Luke Burbank, there are interviews that go terribly, awfully wrong. Watching this video is a little like witnessing a 7th grade dance - it's squirm-inducingly uncomfortable, but also kind of hard to turn away from. To its credit, Bryant Park not only posted this interview, but then sat down with music journalist Jancee Dunn to analyze jus… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on October 15, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

Poddio turns iPhone into studio...

The latest buzz from the techno-geek world is Poddio, an iPhone application from VeriCorder that turns an iPhone into a hand held recorder and digital audio workstation. Though the sound isn't necessarily studio-quality -… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on October 5, 2009 at 9:58am — No Comments

Choose your own... web documentary of China's coal industry

Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books where you got to determine the story plot by making choices abo… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on September 21, 2009 at 2:14pm — No Comments

Listen Up! The Audio for Educators Playlist

Photo by Ayton This summer, as part of the Listen Up! Audio for Educators workshop at the Center for Docum… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on September 15, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Youth radio from the outside in: Taki Telonidis on Spy Hop Productions

For most of you, youth media is a familiar concept; you know the power of young people using media. But what about people who don't call youth media home? When we came across "Spy Hop: Making Music, Changing Lives," a profile of Sal… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on September 9, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Get your Fresh Greens on PRX!

Fresh Greens: Teens & the Environment has arrived. The new collaboration from New Hamps… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on August 31, 2009 at 12:21pm — No Comments

On Transom.org: Tribal Radio

In May, producers Jesse Hardman and Maura O'Connor took off across the southwest to visit some of the 33 Native American reservations that have their own radio stations. In a photo/audio essay on Transom, they show that despite all the Twittering, Flickring, Facebooking we m… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on August 14, 2009 at 9:53am — No Comments

The Moth has landed... on PRX

When you boil radio down to its core, you find one thing: storytelling. And The Moth Radio Hour is storytelling at its very finest. The Moth features true stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props, or accompaniment.… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on August 10, 2009 at 11:39am — No Comments

Fan YouthCast on Facebook!

YouthCast has arrived on Facebook with this lovely (easy to forward and share...) web address: facebook.com/youthcast. Will you… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on July 27, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Molly Adams takes on YouthCast!

Meet Molly Adams, new YouthCast host/blogger extraordinaire. A native of Portland, Maine, Molly is living proof that youth radio groups work: After graduating from Blunt Youth Radio, she went on to Colorado

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Added by Jones Franzel on July 15, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Producer's Corner: Denise Tejada of Youth Radio

Denise Tejada knows youth media. Since joining Oakland-based Youth Radio/Youth Media International in 2003 at age 15, she has moved from student to peer teacher to news department producti… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on July 9, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Free online journalism course from News University

Photo by TADA's Revolution Ever wondered how to make those big news stories relevant on a local level? Check out… Continue

Added by Jones Franzel on June 29, 2009 at 11:11am — No Comments

June Fox puts the "fun" back in fundraising

When June Fox, the Director of Station Relations at DEI, introduced her fundraising workshop at the recent NFCB conference by asking, "do you mind if I take my shoes off? You can too, of course!" we were already hooked. And what came next - a milli

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Added by Jones Franzel on May 7, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments