WUOT’s “Next Wave Radio Project” gives the brightest and most ambitious college students an opportunity to experience public radio journalism from the inside.  Next Wave students at WUOT serve the station as staff reporters—covering events, researching stories, recording and editing interviews and writing news copy for air.   At the same time, we’re able to introduce another generation to the passion that drives public radio. 

The following stories were all produced (and some voiced) by Next Wave students.  Who knows?  Maybe one of them will be the next Michelle Norris or Steve Inskeep…

 

 

 

 

CAROLYN LYDEN - "SHORT-SHORTS"- Social networking websites began as a way to keep up with old classmates and make new friends online.  More recently, sites like Twitter have taken on a different role, offering creative writers and easy and fast way to produce and publish their work.  As part of WUOT's Next Wave Radio Project, Carolyn Lyden reports that while Short Fiction is not new, it is headed in a different direction...
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BOBBY EVANS - "THE LOVE KITCHEN"- If you've never been to East Knoxville's Love Kitchen, you're missing out on one of the city's truly remarkable stories. Over the past twenty-plus years, volunteers at the Love Kitchen have prepared and served hundreds of thousands of meals to the hungry. And it all began with a dream. WUOT's Ann Lloyd narrates this Next Wave Radio Project story, written and produced by Bobby Evans...
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SHIELA HAWKINS - "EQUAL CUSTODY"- Idaho is the only state in the nation that legally allows two parents who do not live together equal time with their children. Other states are being lobbied now to guarantee equal shared custody. Recently, the Tennessee legislature considered the proposal, but it was not approved. This leaves some fathers frustrated from navigating through a court system they say has a negative gender bias. Ann Lloyd narrates this report, produced for WUOT's Next Wave Radio Project by Shiela Hawkins...
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JESSIE KREUGER - "THE WORLD AT OUR DOORSTEP"  On May 1, 1982, the World's Fair opened in Knoxville. For six months, visitors from around the world came here to see the latest innovations and technologies. But the fair's lasting legacy wasn't defined by technological changes. Its legacy may actually have been defined by the sense of civic identity it created for what one newspaper called "A Scruffy Little City". Matt Shafer Powell narrates this story, which aired on May 1, 2007-- twenty-five years to the day since the start of the 1982 World's Fair.  The story was produced for WUOT's Next Wave Radio Project by Jessie Krueger...
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