Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Location: Portland, Maine
- http://www.bluntradio.org
- http://www.wmpg.org
Blunt Youth Radio Project produces a weekly call-in public affairs radio show. Blunt airs every Monday night from 7:30 to 8:30 WMPG, Portland, Maine's community radio station.
Free and incarcerated, high school age youth from the greater Portland area staff the show. All Blunters learn interviewing, hosting, reporting, engineering, and studio production.
The show has won several NFCB and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards. Work by Blunt Youth Radio have aired on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, This American Life, re:Sound, the BBC, Maine Public Radio and others.
Series
Blunt Presents Special Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Feb 02, 2004
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Nov 20, 2005
Blunt youth producers explore the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by documenting the displaced, and taking at hard look at the racial inequality exposed by the storm.
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Oct 17, 2005
Incarcerated youth from the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine tell stories of life behind bars.
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Aug 02, 2012
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Mar 15, 2016
Blunt Youth Radio is trying to give Japanese people a way to tell the story of their experience following the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Messages from Japan is gathering and sharing the stories of regular Japanese people since the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Apr 27, 2011
Youth Led Public Affairs Live from Blunt Youth Radio
- From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Updated: Jan 13, 2015
Pieces
- Added: Oct 28, 2018
- Length: 32:16
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 03:18
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: :58
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 05:41
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 03:09
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 04:08
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 02:04
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 02:59
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 05:12
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 01:01:39
People who work with Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Claire Holman (Admin)
Founder, Executive Producer |
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Valerie Randall
student, (sometimes) independent producer |
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Johanna (Jones) Franzel
Generation PRX Director |
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Matt Frassica
Producer, The Briny |
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