Monday, Feb. 25 - Friday, Feb 29 during Morning Edition
The latest Radio Rookies series “Out On My Own: Stories of Living Away from One’s Parents” airs Feb. 25-Feb 29th during Morning Edition on WNYC and will be available for downloading here. Their courageous stories explore foster care, making it as legally emancipated minor, and life in a group home. Stay tuned.
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Anime, death, love, sex, and even a story all about chicken. These are just some of the topics covered by the stories produced during the first Short Wave workshop with students from The High School for Global Citizenship in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Their stories debut here:
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During the Berlin Philharmoniker’s 17 day stint in New York this month, the orchestra is working with several of the city’s high
brow cultural institutions, Carnegie Hall, MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Department of Education. Reporter Veralyn
Williams spent the last 3 weeks following a group of high school students as they prepare to perform this weekend
with members of the Berlin Philharmoniker. They’re created an original work inspired by Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring".
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The latest group of Rookies all hail from Staten Island, where the program partnered with
the social service organization Project Hospitality.
The Rookies produced documentaries about their lives, their worries, and their hopes.
Like Marie Stephen, who recently lost 40 pounds and wonders why she continues to struggle with low self-esteem. All the
Rookies are from immigrant families or are immigrants themselves, and many of their
stories touch on that experience. Including Christian, who came from Mexico when he
was four and weighs his limited options as an undocumented teenager living in the
United States.
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(March 2007, New York, NY)
By the time he was a senior in high school, Radio Rookie Samr "Rocky" Tayeh weighed 500 pounds. So he decided to have weight loss surgery. He tells the story of his surgery and its aftermath in the WNYC documentary "Saying Good Bye to Food."
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(January 22, 2007) Radio Rookies received a national award for outstanding community arts and humanities program for children at a White House ceremony Monday morning. Radio Rookie Edward Llanos and Senior Producer Kaari Pitkin accepted the The Coming Up Taller Award on behalf of the Rookies program.
Read the First Lady's remarks
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Radio Rookies is an award-winning WNYC program that trains young people to use words and sounds to tell true stories about themselves, their communities and the world. Through a series of workshops, each held in a different neighborhood, Radio Rookies gives teenagers the tools to become radio journalists. What is Radio Rookies?
Click on the map of New York City to hear Radio Rookies stories from different neighborhoods.
Funding
Radio Rookies is supported by Con Edison, Fred L. Emerson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Margaret Neubart Foundation, The New York Times Company Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Staten Island Bank and Trust Foundation and Time Warner. |
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