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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Max TendlerThe aid-on-wheels program, which began this past January, served 3,000 individuals in its first 70 days, illustrating the "urgent need," the organization said in a statement, for solutions that bring resources directly to those they serve. -
Food Bank of Central & Eastern North CarolinaPresident Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. With it back in the House, community organizations are bracing for the effects of cuts to the federal food assistance program. -
Kate Medley/For WUNCThe heat wave that hit North Carolina this week brought record highs—and an increase in heat-related hospital visits. Here's what doctors are recommending to stay safe the rest of the summer. -
Courtesy of Wake County Communications Consultant Arevik Badalyan-DrewekEvery week until Labor Day weekend, the Wake Water Quality Lab is taking samples from recreational areas across the county to check for the levels of E. coli and enterococcus bacteria.
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Gray Byrd had submitted a speech responding to the prompt "striving to excel" — part of the school motto — that included the line "transgender people are facing new levels of violence each day, and the voices of transgender children are being overlooked." -
Scientists have increasingly used tide levels to predict flooding on the coast. But two North Carolina professors showed that land-based factors, like rain, groundwater, and local infrastructure, are more often the driving force. -
Several Wake County parents and public commenters appeared at last week's school board meeting to argue for or against Rolesville High's grant application request. -
A national report released quarterly shows that both unemployment and underemployment have risen among recent grads—and the same is being felt in North Carolina. -
Last week, scientists launched plastic water bottles outfitted with GPS systems into two Raleigh creeks to research the movement of waste in urban waterways. The study is part of North Carolina Sea Grant, a project funded by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA).
