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A Voice at the Table: A ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Youth Reporting Radio Special

¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ | By Kamaya Truitt
Published December 1, 2023 at 4:09 PM EST
Members of the 2023 advanced youth reporting cohort answer audience questions at the annual Youth Reporting Listening Party. From left to right: Kamaya Truitt, Chris Williams, Nassibah Beddredine, Alani Rouse, William Townsend, Sofia Basurto, Manzili Kokayi, Olivia Haynie, and Allison Swaim.
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Members of the 2023 advanced youth reporting cohort answer audience questions at the annual Youth Reporting Listening Party. From left to right: Kamaya Truitt, Chris Williams, Nassibah Beddredine, Alani Rouse, William Townsend, Sofia Basurto, Manzili Kokayi, Olivia Haynie, and Allison Swaim.
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Youth Reporter Sofia Basurto interviews 9th Street Bakery owner, Ari Berenbaum, about their newly launched basic income initiative. They have a
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Youth Reporter Sofia Basurto interviews 9th Street Bakery owner Ari Berenbaum about the bakery's guaranteed income initiative, "Durham Neighbors." Through donations and purchases made at the bakery, they are able to provide $50 a month to 200 families who request help.
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Youth Reporter Nassibah Bedreddine interviews movement elder Angaza Laughinghouse, a founding member of UE Local 150 and the Black Workers for Justice, at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center in Raleigh, N.C.
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Youth Reporter Nassibah Bedreddine interviews movement elder Angaza Laughinghouse, a founding member of UE Local 150 and the Black Workers for Justice, at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center in Raleigh, N.C.
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Youth Reporter Alani Rouse prepares to track her final narration for her story on the poetry community in Durham.
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Youth Reporter Alani Rouse prepares to track her final narration for her story on the poetry community in Durham.
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Youth Reporter Chris Williams interviews drummer Nick and saxophonist Zion at the Summer in tha Carolinas festival before they go on stage for their set. Each year, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Youth reporters visit Summer in tha Carolinas to practice their interviewing and storytelling skills.
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Youth Reporter Chris Williams interviews drummer Nick and saxophonist Zion at the Summer in tha Carolinas festival before they go on stage for their set. Each year, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Youth reporters visit Summer in tha Carolinas to practice their interviewing and storytelling skills.
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¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Youth Reporting Institute’s A Voice at the Table is an hour-long special featuring reporting from this year's youth reporting institute. On December 5th at 9pm, we invite you to take a seat as we amplify and share stories from our 2023 youth reporting cohort.

¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s Youth Reporting Institute is a competitive, award-winning youth radio journalism training program.

Since 2012, the institute's team has trained hundreds of high school and college students ages 16 to 25 in the fundamentals of radio journalism.

This year, the program launched an advanced institute and a youth digital team to hone in on the journalistic skills alumni developed in earlier years. The goal was to evolve the institute to foster more interaction with ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ staff and teach youth across North Carolina about radio journalism.

In addition to pitching, interviewing, recording, scriptwriting, and editing audio for feature stories, students shadowed ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s staff and developed skills in digital journalism, engineering, podcast production, and long-form storytelling.

Funding for ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s Youth Reporting Institute comes from The Grable Foundation, The Goodnight Educational Foundation, and over 47,000 ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ supporters.
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Kamaya Truitt
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Truitt moved to Durham, North Carolina, and made it her home. She quickly matriculated from student reporter to Youth mentor and was later named Director of ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s Youth Reporting Institute. In 2023, Truitt transitioned to the Director of Community Partnerships and Events to help ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ increase audience engagement by producing events that provide contextual information around stories that matter to the communities who engage with the stationTruitt has produced radio reports for national broadcast on NPR’s Here & Now, and Oakland Youth Radio. She currently serves on ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability Committee.
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