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Blunt Youth Radio

Will Bangs wrote this post at 10:34 am on March 20th, 2008.

I am very excited and happy to see a project like this happening in my hometown of Portland, Maine…

Founded in 1994, The Blunt Youth Radio Project produces a weekly call-in talk show that airs Monday nights from 7:30-8:30 on WMPG, Greater Portland Community Radio. High school age youth from the Portland area, both free and incarcerated, staff the show. Blunt Members are trained in all areas of radio production: interviewing, hosting, reporting, editing, and engineering. The show has won several Gold and Silver Reel Awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and a number of First Place Radio News Awards from the Maine Association of Broadcasters.

Fifty high school-aged members of the program from nine area high schools, Portland’s Kennedy Park neighborhood, and the Long Creek Youth Development Center work together to produce the weekly program. Blunt-produced stories regularly air on National Public Radio and regional outlets around the country.

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