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Generation PRX T-Shirts: Wear your radio style |
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Ah, summer. Bathing suits, ice cream, and kicking back. And with
fewer deadlines and warmer weather, tis' the season to play with
sound and experiment with making new kinds of radio. Then, when
you've got that story percolating, post it to the Audio
Exchange Project for feedback on your
work-in-progress.
If you're keeping track, PRX now hosts nearly 750 radio pieces made
by young people. It's a nice number to mull over while you're
sipping lemonade...
Happy reading & listening,
Jones
Generation PRX Project Director
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Radio Specials Everywhere
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Coming soon to a radio and computer near you
GPRX headquarters has been a flurry of activity with upcoming
not-to-be-missed radio specials, all featuring the work of talented
youth producers. This month, keep an ear out for "Perceptions
Shattered: African-American Masculinity," from Chicago Public Radio
and PRX. With funding from the National Black Programming
Consortium, the show is hosted by Chicago-area hip hop artist
Nam1Sekatti
(who you met in last Signal), and will feature work from 826NYC,
WAMU Youth Voices, Curie Youth Radio, Radio Rookies and
others.
Later this summer, we'll begin working again with our friends over
at KUOW for a third (!) radio special. Hear previous shows Getting Raised and The Migration Project to get
inspired. Then stay tuned for details on how you can be a part of
#3.
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YouthCast's New Home
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The podcast moves to a better blog
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Packed up and ready
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When the YouthCast
blog launched way back in early 2007 to accompany the podcast,
we didn't anticipate what a great resource it would become.
Interviews with producers, food for thought, ideas for listening...
YouthCast.org (first under the able leadership of Kiera Feldman, and now under
the able leadership of Chantel Harley) blossomed
into a feast of youth-radio related goodness. We outgrew our
original digs over at LiveJournal and decided it was a time for a
change.
Visit YouthCast in it's spacious new home: YouthCast.org You'll find the same
great stories and posts, with easier navigation, more intuitive
design and all kinds o' widgets for your clicking fun.
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GPRX 101 from Curie Youth Radio
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Sarah Levine on how to make the site work for you
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Sarah Levine
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They may be too modest to admit it, but the people at Curie Youth Radio
are geniuses. Sarah Levine, the Curie English/radio teacher, has
turned her Chicago classroom into a hotbed of knock-your-socks-off
producers. We asked Sarah to share some tips on how she and
Curie producers use GPRX. Here they are:
Join
the Audio Exchange Project on GPRX: The Audio
Exchange Project is a perfect (and perhaps only?) way for youth
producers across the country to get to know each other, gain
experience in critical listening, and get their pieces heard. It
also serves as a great incentive for producers to finish a draft of
a piece.
Practice finding a new angle on a story: Choose a topic or
theme and listen to five different pieces on that same theme. See
what youth producers do differently, how they approach similar
themes, what makes their approach fresh. Consider what angles still
need to be explored.
Use titles to practice making every word count: Examine
twenty titles. Choose the strongest titles and develop criteria for
what makes a good title.
Practice describing your stories to help yourself understand
them; Write your own descriptors/blurbs/summaries for your
pieces while they are in draft form. This exercise requires you to
develop some ideas about what you hope your pieces will be about
and what moods you will create with their stories. Basically, it
helps give you a vision of what your final piece might be like.
Use the Freakin' Audio
Exchange: It really is an incredible opportunity to meet
other youth producers and reach out with your ideas.
Visit Curie Youth
Radio on PRX.
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Tools & Ideas
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SaltCast grabs your ears
"The path to a story is not always a straight line..." We don't
usually think of podcasts when we think of "tools," but when you
listen to SaltCast, the new
collaboration between PRX and the Salt
Institute for Documentary Studies, you'll know exactly why
we did. Hosted by Rob Rosenthal - one of the inspiring teachers at
Salt - each episode looks under the hood of what makes a good
story. And these are really, really good stories. Ethical
questions, finding a story, sea cucumbers. SaltCast has
it.
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News & Announcements
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GPRX Badge, TCF "Gallery of More," PRX MacArthur-fied
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Photo by Gratzer
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Upcoming Date Pegs
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Time marches on
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Photo by Jason DeRusha
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Try some of these upcoming events for inspiration and as a tool to
pitch to stations. Remember, if you have election audio, the
time is now to upload to PRX and get heard!
July 14 - Bastille Day
Aug 6 - Hiroshima Day
Aug. 8 -
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night
Sept. - Back to School
Sept. 1 - Labor Day
Sept. 15 - Oct. 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month
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