Student Media Project Seeks Student Applicants

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, September 15, 2014

KUOW, KPLU, NPR and College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) are seeking student applicants to their first Student Multimedia Project. The week-long opportunity for college and graduate students to learn from professional journalists will be hosted at the CBI National Student Electronic Media Conference in Seattle, October 20-25. The application deadline is midnight September 22.

A committee of journalists will select up to six students to pair one-to-one with public media journalists and college multimedia instructors from around the country. Three students will be selected from the Seattle/Tacoma area.

"At KUOW we are excited about this project because including more voices and a greater breadth of storytelling in public media ensures our resonance and relevance with audiences into the future," said KUOW General Manager Caryn Mathes, "I applaud this project that seeds our craft with the next generation."

The Student Multimedia Project will emphasize multimedia storytelling focused on character development. Students who are selected for the project will each find a person to focus on for their story -- someone doing something interesting who is willing and available to be interviewed.

Students will produce a radio story about the person and then tell their story differently for the web.

"NPR and its member stations support the Project because it allows us to discover and groom a diverse pool of young talent," said NPR Consultant and Project Manager Doug Mitchell. "The Project gives public media professionals a chance to see if students have what it takes to do the work and lets our industry build a pipeline of new professionals who understand our way of storytelling."