Is This Real Life?

Familiar with the moments where you just have to take a minute to stop and say to yourself, “is this real life?!”? Let me just say that I had a couple of those moments from the moment I found out I would be able to be a part of the Next Generation Radio Project! Below...
Storytelling Never Actually Stops

Storytelling Never Actually Stops

When I stumbled into the KUT community room bright and early on Monday morning, I had no idea exactly what I had gotten myself into. Considering that I’ve been rolling out of bed around noon every day for the last three months, 9am felt painfully early to me. I had...

Prepared To Tackle Almost Any Deadline

To say this week challenged me is definitely an understatement. I have experience interviewing, writing articles, and creating audio stories, but having to quickly complete all of these components in one week was difficult especially since I had a hard time finding...

Stories On The Wall

Stories on the wall by Acacia Coronado A cosmos made of broken plate pieces, a deep sea of ocean blue paint and the twinkling shards of shattered kitchenware may seem like random items to the average eye. But, to Francisco Chavez Silva they are storytelling tools....
Mindset Reset

Mindset Reset

This summer, after graduating, I fell into a passive shuffle of solitary freelance work. I enjoyed my projects, as well as some post-grad rest and relaxation, but I didn’t closely examine my time. Early on in the week of the Next Gen Radio program, my mentor Nathan...