Jones Franzel wrote a new post, The Road Not Taken...
Have there been moments in your life when you came to a fork in the road? On the 50th anniversary of Robert Frost’s death, Chicagoans recite Frost’s most famous poem and discuss their own paths taken,...
View ArticleJones Franzel wrote a new post, Looking@Democracy Offers 100K for Digital...
From Looking@Democracy. Submissions due April 30th, 2013. Throw your hat in the ring! The Looking@Democracy challenge is offering a total of $100,000 in prize money for short, provocative media...
View ArticleJones Franzel wrote a new post, Musings on Love from Philly Youth Radio
“Twilight and other movies are just fantasies…you have to wake up in order to find love.” — Jaya Montague, “What Twilight Didn’t Teach Me About Love” from Philly Youth Radio For the month of...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Signal: See Who Placed in the Zeitfunk Awards
March 2013 Zeitfunk Awards What We’re Listening To Radio 201: Sonic IDs This Just In Possible Photo: Jeff Kubina As teachers […]
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Roses Are Red... Poetry Month on PRX
April is Poetry Month, and what better way to enjoy the giant menu of poetry than by browsing PRX’s smorgasbord of options? From Maya Angelou to Walt Whitman to the poets incarcerated at Northern...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Chicago Youth Poetry Festival: LTAB
After the events in Boston in last week, many of us are needing an injection of hope. And while the topics that the young poets in the Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival tackle are often painful,...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, IOU: Stories of Student Debt from Columbia...
Is college in your future, present, or past? Don’t miss this ambitious half-hour program on student debt from those who know, IOU: Stories of Student Debt from Columbia College Chicago. How much do...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, This Just In: Top 5 Goodies in Youth-Made Radio
2 days left! Submit your teen diaries to Cowbird by by May 31st for a chance to be featured on Radio Diaries and NPR. Or just browse through the gorgeous stories written, recorded and photographed by...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Quick, Stylish & Mobile: The New Signal
It’s here! Signal, the Generation PRX newsletter, is now in a format that’s just right for reading on the go. Signal is your source for all the latest in the world of youth-produced radio: from...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Signal: Coming of Age in the Era of Trayvon
This month’s Signal pauses to listen. From Youth Radio’s Coming of Age in the Era of Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin to an hour-long special on African American masculinity from Chicago Public Radio,...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Youth EB Picks: From Elephant Gods to...
Finally, after months of looking, I’ve managed to find something related to South Asian youth. The first thing that draws you into this piece is Shivani’s voice, full of an enthusiasm to tell her...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Social Media Roundup: The Latest Greatest
In case you missed what we’ve been talking about ’round the GPRX (virtual) water cooler: Enjoying The Hollow Documentary, an interactive web-based documentary on the plight of a West Virginia County....
View ArticleJones Franzel wrote a new post, How to Report Your Own Story from Radio...
Happy day! Radio Rookies and Hive NYC pair up to create an animated short video that answers that perennial youth radio question: What should my story be about? Along with the video is a blog post full...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, What is PRX NXT?
At PRX HQ, we’ve been talking about how to improve PRX in a number of ways, including some exciting changes to profile pages, audio and, ultimately, listening. It’s a project we’re calling PRX NXT. We...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, 5 Tools to Build Your Radio chops
Radio education bonanza! Here are five excellent tools for building your audio chops: 1. Online tutorials from American Student Radio. ASR has been doing lots of exciting work since its launch just...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Listening to: Open Orchard Productions
Though it only launched last year, Open Orchards Productions – a southern California youth radio group based at Palos Verdes High School – is making waves in the youth radio world and was recently...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Halloween Tricks and Treats
From both sides of the trick or treat playbook we bring you: The treat! PRX’s Halloween Playlist. Our staff picks the very best stories, from vampires, to cemetery expeditions, to Dracula’s […]
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Announcing The Moth App: Listen to Stories on...
Cross posted from the PRX Blog. We’re proud to announce that The Moth is now mobile. The Moth app for iOS and Android, developed by PRX, is the latest product of our ongoing effort to bring audio...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, PRX at Ten / Where Are They Now: Kiera...
This post is part of PRX at Ten’s Where Are They Now series about former PRX staff. Cross posted from the PRX blog Back when Generation PRX started YouthCast in 2006 — a podcast to showcase the best...
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Jones Franzel wrote a new post, Nominate Your Favorite Stories!
It’s time for one of our favorite annual traditions: listening through this year’s catalogue of youth-produced audio on PRX to compile our Best Youth-Made Radio of 2013 Playlist. But we’ve only just...
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