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.

Youth Radio Asks: Why Is School Lunch Gross

WLRN Public Media

Published August 23, 2016 at 10:02 PM EDT

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Rachel Greig in the Miami-Dade Schools test kitchen.

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Penny Parham, Director for the Department of Food and Nutrition for Miami-Dade County Public Schools in the district's test kitchen.

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Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected about school lunch at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.

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“It's jail food, I feel like I’m in prison.

“It’s sometimes cold and salty. Sometimes it has no taste.”

“I look at the school lunch and don’t even eat it”

Some of the evaluations Rachel Greig collected from her classmates at Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial High School.

These are just a few of the comments Rachel Greig collected about very few people’s favorite meal: school lunch.

The Miami-Dade County high school junior talks about school lunch all the time with her younger brother and dad, an elementary school teacher. And always wondered why it didn’t meet her standards for a good meal.

Follow her journey to get some answers:

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.