The genesis of the Center for Innovation in College Media happened in Kansas City, MO during the 2005 Fall National College Media Convention (moved from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina).
Chris Carroll (Vanderbilt Student Media) and Ralph Braseth (Ole Miss Student Media) organized a last-minute session on the last day of the conference to discuss new media’s impact on college media. The session was called “Reinventing College Media.”
I just finished uploading the mp3s from that original session to Archive.org for free hosting. Hard to believe that was almost 18 months ago.
Listen to them here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
The links have also been updated on the original Reinventing College Media weblog.
on Mar 15th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Hello:
Your site link was just sent to me. Very interesting. I think our media training project was “in the house” when this idea was developed at the college media conference in Kansas City. Would have loved to have been in the room
NPR has been funding the development of young people for eight years both inside NPR and externally, through our one-week “boot-camps” held around the country. Each intern class at NPR reports, edits writes and produces their own show. I appoint/hire an Executive Producer, who is an intern as well.
We’ve added a new wrinkle in the last year. I’m writing this from NPR member station KUT in Austin Texas. We’ve started doing boot-camps at public radio stations with “large” news departments. Here, we have five competitively selected students from three universities in Central Texas, reporting 4-5:00 stories around the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Festival. Each students is being schooled in “the process.” That is, how does it get there and why does it get there that way? We combine both sit-down talking sessions with real world practical application.
I’ve been finding great students at our colleges and universities who are driven, smart, eager and willing to learn under the tutelage of the best public and commercial radio journalists in the country. On this project, we selected a Ph.d candidate and paired him with a Ph.d candiate as his mentor. The mentor has 30 years in radio before returning to school.
This is a great idea. Please try to reach across all media. NPR, like the newspaper in Roanoke Virginia, is looking for people who know more than one platform. On this project we suggesting students not get locked into one path. We say have a strength on one area and experience in others.
NPR has over 60 former interns working for the network now. I mentor nearly a hundred others who are working in public radio and other media as develop into the next generation of journalists. Our emphasis on process is working. Let’s all keep it going…
Doug Mitchell
project manager
next generation radio
npr-washington dc