Happy 10th Birthday to WNYC's Radio Rookies

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, WNYC's Radio Rookies will broadcast “Growing Up, Getting By”, the first ever special created by young people in the program that teaches radio skills. Host Marianne McCune, who started the program, will revisit some of the stories that Rookies worked on, and follow up with some to see what they have done since being in the program.


WNYC's website explains the genesis of the program:

McCune started the program as a summer radio and photography workshop with a group of kids in Harlem. The stories were a hit, so WNYC management took a risk and gave the go-ahead for more workshops. Since then, we’ve been making our way across New York City’s five boroughs–working with dozens of teens willing to devote themselves and their time to an old-school medium. After the multi-month production process and after their stories air, we stay in touch with most of the Rookies for years, via email, text, and telephone, at reunions and, of course, on Facebook.