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Next<\/span>Gen<\/span>Radio<\/span><\/h1>\n

Finding, coaching and training public media’s next generation.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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what does it mean to be ‘home’ ?<\/h1>\n

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Next Generation Radio is a five-day\u00a0multimedia project highlighting\u00a0the experiences\u00a0of individuals\u00a0in California, one of the fastest-growing states in\u00a0America.<\/p>\n

This project was produced in March 2023 in partnership with University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Our reporters are college and university students or early-career journalists.<\/p>\n

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‘DRAGGING’ HERSELF OUT: LONG BEACH DRAG QUEEN FINDS HER TRUE SENSE OF HOME<\/span><\/h2>\n

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by KAIT LAVO
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Jewels Long Beach, 42, has been grand marshall of the Long Beach pride parade, volunteers weekly in a local AIDS relief center and is the first drag queen to receive a key to the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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FROM SKINNY TREES TO SOCIAL HOURS: AN ARMY VET\u2019S JOURNEY HOME<\/span><\/h2>\n

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by RACHEL LIVINAL
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Over a 24-hour period in October 1989, Melissa Degnan boarded a military helicopter and survived an emergency landing, hid behind what she remembered as the \u201cworld\u2019s skinniest tree,\u201d and buried the uniform she was wearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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FINDING HOME BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES, A RED CANOPY AND A PLATE OF PUPUSAS<\/span><\/h2>\n

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by TONY MORALES
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Less than three miles from the USC campus, Blanca Villatoro molds pupusas under a red canopy on the street in front of her apartment complex. She named her food stand Pupuseria Lupita, after her 2-year-old daughter, who plays beside Villatoro as the pupusas cook on the griddle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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COMING OUT AND COMING HOME<\/span><\/h2>\n

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by PALOMA MORENO JIM\u00c9NEZ
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Ryan Wimsatt has two homes \u2014 one with the loving family that raised him and another with the friends who supported him as he came to terms with his queer identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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FORMERLY INCARCERATED STUDENT FINDS HOME IN HIS FAITH<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Philip Thang now relishes the ordinary and mundane.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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