Update: The application deadline for this internship is past. We are maintaining this post as a record, and have made minimal updates to reduce any confusion over its status. Thank you to everyone who applied and to everyone who spread the word! A decade ago, I didn’t hear the term…

As a person who tends to think while I speak, I try to notice how I’m treating the people around me who think and then speak. “Thinking out loud” is a fairly neutral action. Keep it up until my peers lose interest, however, and it becomes “rambling.” …

When I walked downstairs and opened the door, I was still amazed. Thanks to my scrum master in Washington, D.C., I now stood on my Saint Louis porch holding four gourmet cupcakes. We were celebrating the success of the 2016 Tiny Desk Contest and the contributions we’d made to its…

My favorite podcast constantly reminds me of the importance of self-care. (Thank you, Heben and Tracy.) And lately, I’ve noticed that an important part of my self-care routine also happens to be activism. Here’s what I do: Edit Wikipedia. I make a lot of different types of Wikipedia edits, but…

Each year, Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) hosts a conference for news directors, producers, and reporters. Session and workshop presenters help folks make their journalism even more awesome, from podcasting to creating tight copy to retaining a diverse newsroom. The #PRNDI16 conference was this past weekend in St. Louis…

This Wednesday, our team presented at a meetup in NPR’s Studio 1 for a joining of two groups: ONADC, the DC Area Online News Association Meetup Group, and SNDDC, the Society for News Designs’ annual SND Workshop held in Washington, DC this weekend. …

Last month, NPR staff celebrated Black History Month through a variety of events. There was music, food, books, a movie, and lots of discussion. Each day we recognized a different trailblazer through features in the internal NPR newsletter, each one illustrated by Justin Lucas. Our Black History Month Edit-a-thon We used that same list of…

Last week was the 35th anniversary of Morning Edition, NPR’s two-hour morning program full of the latest news and in-depth features. To celebrate, Executive Producer Tracy Wahl organized a series of four events here at headquarters: three discussions and one celebratory breakfast. Conveniently, last week was also my first week…