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Vol. 6, No. 5 • May 2013

SIU Students Win SINBA Awards

This Month on Morning Conversation Morning Conversation

Radio, Television, and Digital Media students attended the 2013 Students in the Illinois News

airs at 8:30am

Broadcasters Association Awards (SINBA), held

on Tuesdays and other weekdays,

April 19-21 in Champaign-Urbana.

as scheduled, and repeats at 5:30pm.

The winners were:

• Sunrise Sports - 2nd place for Radio

Sports Program • Danny Valle - 2nd place for Radio

Sports Play-By-Play • River Region Evening Edition - 1st

place for Outstanding TV Newscast • Saluki SportsView - 1st place for

Outstanding TV Sports Program • Jessica Anderson - 1st place for TV

Sports Reporting, 3rd place for

TV News Reporting The Illinois News Broadcasters Association (INBA) is one of the largest statewide broadcast news associations in the nation. The organization is made up of about 200 members from Illinois and surrounding states, and takes an active role in educating, defending, and promoting fellowship

For updates, check the Morning Conversation Calendar at wsiu.org/programs Host Jennifer Fuller

morning-conversation.

May 1 • For Kids Sake Art Auction Shema Reperto will be in the studio to talk about this fundraising event.

May 7 • Parenting Again

Reps from Southern Illinois Healthcare will discuss classes and support for grandparents who are now caregivers for their grandkids.

May 14 • SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng

Chancellor Rita Cheng gives an end of semester review and previews plans for the summer and fall semesters.

among electronic journalists throughout the state. The INBA also plays an important role in preparing the next generation of electronic journalists, offering scholarships and membership opportunities to student journalists.

May 21 • Pin A Sister

Rosi Ervin, RN will talk about her program to raise awareness about breast cancer in minority communities.

SIRIS Volunteer Matt Wolf

Meet Matt Wolf. He’s originally from Springfield, Ill., but relocated to Carbondale to pursue a career in architecture.

Wolf says Carbondale’s outdoor recreational activities are what attracted him to the area. As an outdoorsman, Wolf loves to fish, camp, and hike at Cove Hollow. He is also a self-proclaimed grill master and barbecues year-round, no matter how bad the weather.

SIRIS volunteer Matt Wolf.

Photo: Christina Clayton.

Wolf originally heard about SIRIS after volunteering at WSIU’s pledge drive. He thought SIRIS would be a great opportunity to regularly contribute his time to the community. Wolf has been reading at SIRIS since late 2012, and enjoys reading newspapers like the Southern Illinoisan when he volunteers on Fridays.

Wolf highly recommends students and community members to get involved with SIRIS because it’s a quick and easy way to help out. He also jokes, “You never have to hear yourself read.”

When Wolf isn’t volunteering, he likes to listen to radio programs like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air. Some of his favorite shows to watch on WSIU-TV are Nature and Antiques Roadshow.

To volunteer at SIRIS, contact SIRIS Director and WSIU Outreach Coordinator, Vickie Devenport, at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org.

WSIU Radio Students Graduate in May WSIU Radio would like to congratulate the following students for their exemplary service to the WSIU FM stations:

Haley Connor, Du Quoin, Ill. B.A. Radio-TV Tim Harkovich, Des Plaines, Ill. B.A. Radio-TV Wendell Hughes, Mounds, Ill. B.A. Radio-TV

Best of luck after graduation.

Cheers to you!

What’s the Scoop?

Teenage Diaries Revisited on ATC

Sixteen years ago, independent producer Joe Richman gave a group of teenagers tape recorders to report on their own lives. The groundbreaking series Teenage Diaries produced some of the most personal and memorable stories heard on NPR and pioneered a movement of first-person narratives on public radio. Since then, listeners often ask: where are those teenagers now?

NPR and Radio Diaries revisit the series 16 years later with new stories from the five original diarists, to air on All Things Considered, May 6-10.

Juan (Colorado) Sixteen years ago, Juan documented his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas.

Juan’s updated diary tours the life he has built since he first crossed the Rio Grande. It looks a lot like the typical American dream: a house, 2 cars, 3 kids – except for the fact that he’s still living as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S.

Melissa (New Jersey) As an 18-year-old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah. Since then, Melissa and her son have faced many challenges, from eviction notices to her son’s life-threatening medical diagnosis. In her new diary, she talks to her son for the first time about the circumstances of his birth.

Frankie (Alabama) Frankie was a high school football star and a staple feature in his hometown newspaper. Years after graduating, Frankie was back in the paper – this time, for a drug-related arrest. Now after a devastating addiction to crystal meth and with a baby on the way, Frankie documents his attempts to repair his relationship with his family.

Diarist Amanda of NYC goes back to her parents to find out how they came to accept her sexuality. Photo credit: Radio Diaries/David Gilkey for NPR.

Amanda (New York City) At the age of 17, Amanda knew she was gay, but her Catholic parents kept insisting she’d grow out of it.

Today, a lot has changed in the country, and within her own family. In her new story, Amanda goes back to her parents to find out how they came to accept her sexuality.

Josh (New York City) In high school, Josh documented his life with Tourette’s Syndrome: a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts. Today, Josh has overcome Tourette’s enough to become a NYC public school teacher, but not enough to remain one. Josh’s new diary is about trying to live a normal adult life with a brain that often betrays him.

Thank You Underwriters!

Please join us in thanking the underwriters who recently began, renewed, or expanded their partnership to make public radio possible:

The Arthur Agency, Carbondale, IL Dr. Reno Ahuja of Holistic Psychiatry, Energy, IL Jackson County Health Department, Murphysboro, IL

Saturday 7pm • Sunday 6pm May 4

New Releases It’s May, and the new releases are “springing” up all around us! We’ll bring you up to date on what’s new in the Celtic music world, with tracks from vocal as well as instrumental CDs.

May 11

Poetry and Song We often encounter songs that were originally poems set to music. The relationship between poetry and song is explored in this week’s program, including some readings of his own work by Ireland’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, Seamus Heaney.

May 18

A Bag of Treats The theme is open-ended this week so we can pick some older and newer good music from the CD shelves. There are several thousand we can choose from, so the choice will be random but also informed!

May 25

40 Years Back: The Best of 1973 We have enough Irish recordings from 40 years ago to put together a “Best of 1973” program, so that we can look back further than our occasional “30 Years Back” programs have been able to do. The ‘70s saw a major revival and revitalization of Irish music, and it was starting to happen in 1973.

Scott McClatchey of Alliance Investment Planning Group, Carbondale, IL The C.F.S.B Center at Murray State University, Murray, KY City of Ste. Genevieve Dept. of Tourism, Ste. Genevieve, MO Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU, Carbondale, IL School of Law at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Dr. Zahoor Makhdoom of S.I.G.I. Specialists, Carbondale, IL Southern Illinois Healthcare, regional Mark Williams Outdoor Equipment, Murphysboro, IL For a complete list of WSIU sponsors and information about sponsoring WSIU programming, visit us online at wsiu.org or call (618) 453-4286.

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