Bay Area community college and high school students worked with KALW Public Media and the Mosaic Journalism Program at San Jose State University this summer to learn how to tell audio stories. Several students learned how to create audio versions of their Mosaic print stories, which ran online in The Mercury News.
Mosaic is an independent program that focuses on teaching journalism to teens in underserved areas of the South Bay. This was the second year of collaboration between KALW and Mosaic.
The summer audio workshop was taught and the stories edited by Sarah Lai Stirland and Truc Nguyen.
Sharon Noguchi, a former editor at Chalkbeat and at The Mercury News, and Mercury News Columnist Sal Pizarro, co-direct the Mosaic Journalism Project.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation made this project possible.
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