Blunt Youth Radio Project

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Blunt Youth Radio Project produces a weekly call-in public affairs radio show. Blunt airs every Monday night from 7:30 to 8:30 WMPG, Portland, Maine's community radio station.

Free and incarcerated, high school age youth from the greater Portland area staff the show. All Blunters learn interviewing, hosting, reporting, engineering, and studio production.

The show has won several NFCB and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards. Work by Blunt Youth Radio have aired on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, This American Life, re:Sound, the BBC, Maine Public Radio and others.

Pieces

Portrait of the Bully as a Young Man
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Jeff's first day out
Jeff's reputation as a bully was something of a legend in the coastal town where he grew up. Eight years later, and with a chance to start over ag...

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:34
  • Purchases: 1
Illegal Mail
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, and YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:47
  • Purchases: 3
Ito Finds Good Culture
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Atsushi Ito runs a company in Tokyo, but his hometown is Miyagi, which was terribly devastated by the tsunami. He says that Japanese people will f...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
Ito Describes the Atmosphere Now
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Atsushi Ito runs a company in Tokyo, but his hometown is Miyagi, which was terribly devastated by the tsunami. His friends told him that all the b...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:09
Ito After the Earthquake
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Atsushi Ito runs a company in Tokyo, but his hometown is Miyagi, which was terribly devastated by the tsunami. Right after the big earthquake happ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:29
Kimiko Ishikawa Talks About Tohoku
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Kimiko Ishikawa lives in the Tohoku area which was horribly devastated by the tsumani. She says that currently, people in Tohoku have stopped goin...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:10
  • Purchases: 1
Akinori Itagaki: Now Young People Are Talking About Nuclear Power in Japan
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:19
  • Purchases: 1
Danny Katz: Staying on the Job in Tokyo
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Danny Katz is a Japanese-American who grew up in the USA, but who now lives and works in Tokyo. After the big earthquake and tsunami, he made the d...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
Miki Pyle: They Are Strong
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Miki Pyle lives in South Portland, Maine. Over 5,000 people in her hometown died during Japan's last major earthquake. Seeing how the Japanese peop...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Atsuko Fujimori: This earthquake was so devastating.
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Messges from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Atsuko Fujimori works at a bakery in Portland, Maine. Though she grew up in Tokyo, she was born in Iwate, the region where the earthquake and tsuna...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shinji Ishikawa: Proud to be Japanese now.
Series: Messages from Japan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Shinji Ishikawa as intern at Blunt Youth Radio
When the earthquake hit, Shinji Ishikawa was at work on the 13th floor at the large trading firm he works for in Tokyo. He never expected the destr...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:00:59
  • Purchases: 1
Alone and Left Out at Valentine's time
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Theo Lichter
High school senior Theo Lichter ponders a life of no sweetheart at Valentine's day, or any day, of getting left out and just accepting life for wha...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Barbara Jean
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:02
  • Purchases: 2
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Greenwashing and Consumerism: Why Walmart Doesn't Care
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Can environmentalism, cultural theory and marketing work together? Is Walmart green beyond the bills in the cash registers? Producer Isaac Woodbury...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMPG


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 00:06:39
  • Purchases: 2
Lady Gaga Protests Don't Ask, Don't Tell in Portland, ME
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Crowd cheers Lady Gaga in Portland, Maine, Credit: Shinji Ishikawa
On September 20, 2010, Lady Gaga came to Maine to protest the U.S. military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. In this vox pop, members of Blunt Youth...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:11
Homelessness: It Could Happen to Anyone, Even My Dad
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Iris and her dad, Robert
When Blunt member Iris SanGiovanni was eight years old, her dad became homeless for six months after her parents divorced. A few years later, she h...

Bought by WMPG, Public Radio Remix, WMNF, KUOW, WMPG and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:17
  • Purchases: 6
I Was a Slacker in the Top 10
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Graduation Day
Libby Donovan wasn't challenged in high school, but she still got good grades. She feels that her high schools policy of heterogeneously mixing the...

Bought by WMPG and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Reflections on Environmental Club
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Anna Flanagan
Now that 3 of Portland High School's (in Portland, Maine) environmental leaders have graduated, they're wondering if they did enough for the cause.

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:37
  • Purchases: 2
High Fructose Corn Syrup in the Environment
From Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Afternoon drink turned nightmare for both my personal health and the environment. The problems of high fructose corn syrup which is in nearly EVERY...

Bought by KDNK, WMPG, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 00:03:24
  • Purchases: 3

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People who work with Blunt Youth Radio Project

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Claire Holman (Admin)
Founder, Executive Producer
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Rachel Margolis-Pineo
Blunt Producer
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Valerie Randall
student, (sometimes) independent producer
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Emily LaFond
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Mary Bruen
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Lily Townsend
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Ethan Jud
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Emily Wall
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Dan Schulman
Producer, Blunt Youth Radio
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Kali Pulkkinen
Active Member
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William Nelligan
Reporter and Host
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Libby Donovan
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Zoe High
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S. Spencer Scott
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Kerry Seed (Admin)
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Ness Smith-Savedoff
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Meaghan Lasala
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Caitlin Allen
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Ryan Murphy
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Charlotte Mcdonald
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Barbara VanDerburgh
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adachi akinori
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Iris SanGiovanni
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Patty Wight (Admin)
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Johanna (Jones) Franzel
Generation PRX Director