WUNC's Youth Reporting Internships is a semester-based, paid internship program for young people to interact and share their passion for radio journalism and storytelling.
The program is designed to give currently enrolled college students and recent graduates the opportunity to learn how to report, write, produce, and voice stories for broadcast and digital publication. Those chosen for the program are paired with a newsroom editor, who serves as their mentor and supervisor for the duration of the program.
Participants learn radio journalism skills; interact with a range of reporters, producers, and editors; and connect with other members of their cohort via monthly professional development workshops.
Interns are placed on various content-producing teams throughout WUNC, including daily news, the Embodied podcast, the Due South daily talk show, and on our digital content desk. After an initial training and onboarding phase, interns are considered full members of their respective teams, producing work alongside their professional colleagues.
The program began in 2012 and is funded with the support of The Goodnight Educational Foundation and The Grable Foundation.
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Pixabay‘The Pollening’ has begun. Blankets of yellow springtime splendor are coating North Carolina. You may already be reaching for the tissues. We get a forecast. -
Luke Franke/AudubonThe plea from Audubon N.C. follows a study last year that estimated more than 1 billion birds are killed in collisions with buildings in the U.S. annually. It cites artificial lights at night and reflective windows as causes — they confuse birds that use the light from stars to migrate. -
Why online Gen Z folks hate millennials’ tendency to turn the inside of modernist homes “gray and boring.” -
Bentonville BattlefieldThe event occurs once every five years, and can be attended as a reenactor or visitor.
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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is continuing Chemours’ search for groundwater contamination beyond the Lower Cape Fear. -
The class is one in a series supporting the Redbud Writing Project’s mission to make creative writing accessible. -
Some doctors in N.C. are encouraging individuals to get vaccinated against measles, as there have been more than 160 cases in nine states so far this year. -
The study, published in scientific journal Nature, is the first to find empirical evidence for the “magnetic mapping” ability. -
Likening it to a metal bubble wrap, AMM says their "composite metal foam" design can make almost any metal or alloy 100 times more energy absorbent, three times lighter, more radiation resistant and 7.5 times longer-lasting in extreme heat fires.
