The WTIP Youth Radio Project has been in the news several times lately as the radio station has recruited a new group of teens to take part in the program. An added incentive for students just may be international acclaim!
Three commentaries from WTIP’s Youth Radio Project students have been selected to air on Germany’s Radijojo, the World Children’s Radio Network.
Pieces by Cook County students Kayla Stacey, Molly Zafft and Sterling Anderson will be broadcast by Radijojo – a nonprofit, noncommercial network with material produced by young people for young people.
Radijojo has recently launched a transatlantic youth radio project called “Across the Ocean.” Sterling Anderson’s “Moving Away” will be the first of the Youth Radio Project commentaries to be aired internationally. Molly Zafft’s “Prom: the gift of formality” and Kayla Stacey’s “Whales in the Big Lake?” will follow.
“At WTIP, we know the high quality of production that is coming out of the WTIP Youth Radio Project,” said station Program Director Roger Linehan. The pieces have aired on WTIP throughout 2011, and several pieces have been picked up by other non-commercial stations around the state. “It’s great to have Kayla, Molly and Sterling’s work validated by an international producer like Radijojo in Berlin and to know that their voices will be played far beyond the North Shore of Lake Superior.”
Radijojo World Children’s Radio Network has established educational projects in such countries as Afghanistan, India, Sierra Leone, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, China, Chile, Ghana, Tanzania and Namibia, as well as throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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