Get Involved with Desks

National Radio Project Desks give you the opportunity to be intensively involved in the issues that are closest to your heart. There are several ways to get involved with a Desk:

1. Join our volunteers and grassroots activists. You can get involved in radio production!

   Do you have ideas for 6-minute radio segments or whole 29-minute installments of Making Contact? If you're not near Oakland, CA, we'd love to work with you long distance. Send us your ideas for topics, angles, and interviewees.

Have ideas but just need skills? We can train you and we stress "learning by doing":

• Pitch us a program – see our Pitching Guidelines
• Record a speech
• Transcribe recorded tape
• Research a topic
• Network with community groups
• Help with fact checking
• Design an outreach flyer for this desk
• Give us feedback on a radio program
• Table at an event
• Organize a fundraising houseparty
• Learn the following skills here and then turn around and teach someone else:
        - Radio production
        - Interviewing techniques
        - Digital audio editing


2. Freelance Journalists: submit material for a possible upcoming show. Formal pitches for entire programs or segments are welcome - please see our Submission Guidelines.

if any of these sounds appealing to you, please contact us.

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