Latest Stories By The Youth Reporting Institute
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Nassibah Beddredine/for WUNCFor this summer’s Youth Reporting Institute, reporter Nassibah Bedreddine took a look at how intolerance has facilitated not only cultural assimilation but also cultural loss. She dug into her Algerian family’s history and documented how they are working to preserve their culture. -
Kamaya Truitt/WUNCWUNC Youth Reporter Avery Patterson sets out on a quest to understand why her neighborhood is predominately white. In the process, she uncovers a history of housing segregation in Durham and talks to her neighbors about inclusivity.
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Claire Haile/WUNCBelews Creek Steam Station is a two-unit coal and natural gas plant located on Belews Lake in Stokes County, N.C.WUNC Youth Reporter Claire Haile highlights community activists who have found unique ways to work as environmental advocates.
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Caitlin Leggett/WUNCIn North Carolina, within the past year, people in some local districts are pushing to remove books from schools that focus on gender identity and racially sensitive subjects. This summer, WUNC Youth Reporter William Townsend talked to teens in the Triangle who were directly impacted and spoke out against book bans in their communities.
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Parys Smith/WUNCFor this summer’s WUNC Youth Reporting Institute, participants were tasked with telling stories from their communities. Reporter Parys Smith spoke with medical professionals and the women in her family about the experience of Black women in the healthcare system.
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Jane Pierce/for WUNCIn 2020, a group of young people founded the Wake County Black Student Coalition. But two years later, organizers say it's harder to recruit and retain students to assemble around issues of social justice. WUNC youth reporter Christopher Williams highlights the challenges of leading a lasting movement.
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WUNC's Youth Reporting Institute is a community and platform for young people to interact and share their passion for radio journalism and storytelling.
This summer, WUNC Youth Reporting opened up our highly competitive and award-winning youth radio journalism training program to all high school and college students, ages 16-25. Students with no prior experience were encouraged to apply, as well as students with experience in journalism or media-production.
Participants learned (and/or sharpened) their radio journalism skills, interacted with a diverse group of reporters in various stages of their career, and connected with other youth across the state of North Carolina via weekly training videos, Zoom calls, radio challenges and Instagram live. Some participants are featured on the WUNC Youth Podcast and/or featured on WUNC's on-air broadcast.
This summer, WUNC Youth Reporting opened up our highly competitive and award-winning youth radio journalism training program to all high school and college students, ages 16-25. Students with no prior experience were encouraged to apply, as well as students with experience in journalism or media-production.
Participants learned (and/or sharpened) their radio journalism skills, interacted with a diverse group of reporters in various stages of their career, and connected with other youth across the state of North Carolina via weekly training videos, Zoom calls, radio challenges and Instagram live. Some participants are featured on the WUNC Youth Podcast and/or featured on WUNC's on-air broadcast.
We are here to AMPLIFY Youth Voices, so What's Your Story?
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— Changing Channels with Caitlin Leggett
Follow WUNC Youth Reporting on instagram and facebook @WUNCYouthVoices for introspective interviews with the movers and shakers of our collective community.
Grant Holub-Moorman
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— 2022 Youth Reporting Institute
The 2022 Youth reporters celebrate their final youth stories at the 2022 Youth Reporting Listening Party in Chapel Hill.
Caitlin Leggett
The Youth Reporting Institute Curriculum offers tips and tools to create broadcast-quality audio reporting from concept to delivery.
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