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WRVG's Chuck Harris looks into how college students spend their precious sleep time.

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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In less than a year, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has re-energized the conversation about income inequality, provided a forum for a wide array of cause...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 17:51
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In less than a year, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has re-energized the conversation about income inequality, provided a forum for a wide array of cause...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 15:19
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Following Vice President Biden's visit to Exeter, New Hampshire, audience members offered their thoughts on the speech, the Buffett Rule, and the c...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Juard Barnes, counselor at Prescription for Hope and YVRT programs, Wishard Hospital, Credit: Y-Press
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:18
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
Caption: Poet Miona Short
Poet Miona Short, 16, is a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
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A tsunami, a country, a power plant.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
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In this weeks edition of Weird News With Perry, Perry tells us about the Dunkin Duo, a pair of donut shop burglars recently apprehended.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: :45
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In this week's edition of Weird News With Perry, Perry tells us the story of Jesse Ventura, a man with a titanium hip and a bone to pick with the T...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: :51
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The Beach Boys-esque musical outro (written and performed by Zap) to Youth Spin's weekly segment, Weird News With Perry.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: :16
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The unique introduction (featuring Mady Berry) to Youth Spin's weekly segment, Weird News With Perry.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: :16
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Parents and advocates in one East Oakland, California, neighborhood have stepped up their activism in response to pimps targeting their middle scho...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Young researchers during a team exercise in Georgia., Credit: UNICEF 2010/Matthew Emry
UNICEF podcast moderator Amy Costello discusses the importance of youth participation in research with Valon Kurhasani, Jafar Usmanovis and Mathew ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Self-portrait painted by Thien To
Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

Bought by WHYY and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Generational discussion on Preventive Medicine

  • Added: May 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
From: Y-Press
Series: (w)indy
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Many immigrants come to America looking for a better life with more opportunities. They come with widely varying levels of education and resources....

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:54
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Just over 1000 Burmese refugees settled in Indianapolis last year and that number is projected to grow this year. Carleen Miller, executive direct...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:10