{"id":581,"date":"2019-06-28T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/?p=581"},"modified":"2019-06-28T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:23:10","slug":"you-our-mentors-voices-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/2019\/06\/28\/you-our-mentors-voices-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"You & Our Mentor’s Voices Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had the privilege of interviewing David Suro-Pi\u00f1era, a Mexican immigrant whose life mission is to teach America the true culture surrounding agave spirits. Aside from his life goal, Suro-Pi\u00f1era had more interesting elements to his story that I wanted to include.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our non-narrated radio piece was only three to four minutes. M\u00f3nica Ortiz Uribe, my mentor for the week, helped me remember to stay within our story angle. She agreed Suro-Pi\u00f1era had a colorful story but every detail could not be included.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe this experience helped me sharpen my news judgment. There were many times we had to ask, \u2018will this suit the story\u2019 or \u2018does this fit within the story angle.\u2019 These questions led to a concise story about Suro-Pi\u00f1era\u2019s experience as an immigrant and the legacy he wants to leave behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had trouble in the past narrowing down story details. It is ideal to want to include every piece of information, but deadlines are important as well. I\u2019ve learned to produce the best story possible in the time allotted.<\/span><\/p>\n

A second learning experience was the collaborative environment during this training. The non-narrated piece was a challenge. My mentor and I had to figure out how to tell a story without using narration. We also had to figure out how to order the story in a way that made sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I will remember this experience because collaborative journalism can be tricky. I wanted to learn from my mentor, but I made sure to voice my ideas and suggestions in the reporting and production process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NPR Next Generation Radio training taught me how to work under pressure, meet deadlines, receive constructive criticism and have my voice heard. I leave with many memories that will help advance my career path.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Collaborative journalism can be tricky. I wanted to learn from my mentor, but I made sure to voice my ideas and suggestions in the reporting and production process.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2019.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}