¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'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 ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾, 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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‘The Pollening’ has begun. Blankets of yellow springtime splendor are coating North Carolina. You may already be reaching for the tissues. We get a forecast.
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The plea from Audubon N.C. follows a study last year that estimated more than 1 billion birds are killed in collisions with buildings in the U.S. annually. It cites artificial lights at night and reflective windows as causes — they confuse birds that use the light from stars to migrate.
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Why online Gen Z folks hate millennials’ tendency to turn the inside of modernist homes “gray and boring.â€
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The event occurs once every five years, and can be attended as a reenactor or visitor.
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Youth reporter Andrew Rice talks to organizers working to preserve Geer Cemetery, one of Durham's oldest historically Black cemeteries, about their efforts to submit a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
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'They want to stay here': Preserving the future of Chapel Hill's oldest historically Black communityLongtime residents of Chapel Hill's Northside Neighborhood worry about the changing face of the community. Today, efforts have been made to help residents remain in Northside while educating and encouraging students to take a more active role within the community.
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On June 10, Durham Public Schools were awarded $27.4 million for the 2024-25 school budget. This and other wins around North Carolina are all part of a statewide fight for public education. Youth reporter Parys Smith spoke with public school workers and advocates around North Carolina about actively creating a movement for better public school funding.
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Every 15 days, someone is killed on Durham’s roads. Max Tendler talked to pedestrians at busy Durham intersections to see how they felt walking around the city without a car. Then, she spoke with the people designing plans to make Durham safer.
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A food desert is defined as an area with limited access to healthy, affordable food. In North Carolina, more than 1.5 million people live in one. Before April 2023, Warren County had just two grocery stores. That’s part of what motivated one couple in the town of Norlina to bring fresh produce to the majority Black community.