Youth Radio

The 2016 youth radio crew in the WLRN studios.00000173-d94c-dc06-a17f-ddddb4ba0000WLRN’s youth radio program mentors and trains student interns through the process of producing professional news features for radio broadcast. This includes formulating a story pitch, reporting, research, identifying and interviewing sources, writing for radio, and mixing basic audio elements.In addition to producing their own stories, interns learn the fundamentals of journalism in a working newsroom from professionals in the fields of radio, print, photography and digital journalism. Interns learn about finding stories, reporting with accuracy and fairness, and how to be a critical news consumer.This website showcases their work over the course of the summer internship.WLRN Youth Radio Institute is part of Urgent, Inc.’s FACE Summer Youth Training Employment Program, which provides hands-on real world training for youth between the ages of 16-24. The program affords interns the opportunity to advance their professional skills to individuals who might not otherwise get the opportunity.

WLRN Youth Radio Asks: Who Touched My Park?

WLRN 91.3 FM

Published August 31, 2016 at 3:01 PM EDT

Dorsey Park, Rochnel Jean-Baptiste's neighborhood park.

Maybe there’s a park you remember from your childhood. And you may have seen it after renovations or upgrades and it’s just not quite the same.

Well, Rochnel Jean-Baptiste experienced that pretty early in life. She’s 14 now, and her park changed when she was 8.

She takes us on her journey to figure out why cities and counties change parks at all.

There are more than 120 parks in the city of Miami and roughly 270 operated by Miami-Dade County Parks. According to the county, it’s the third largest county park system in the United States.

You can find all of WLRN’s youth radio stories and see more of the work the interns created over the summer here.

WLRN's youth radio program is a partnership with Urgent, Inc.’s FACE program.