{"id":13307,"date":"2015-01-10T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2015-01-10T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:51:17","slug":"rising-stars-at-ncpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2015\/01\/10\/rising-stars-at-ncpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising stars at NCPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Star shells.” Photo: U.S. Army<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week Brian Mann circulated an email among his station colleagues taking note of the great reporting work being done by the newest members of the NCPR reporting family.<\/p>\n

That family has grown substantially over the last few years to include Sarah Harris<\/a>, who first reported for us as a part-timer based in the Champlain Valley, but whose reporting on education this past year has dug deep into such controversial terrain as school merger, the implementation of Common Core standards, education funding, and student homelessness.\u00a0And Zach Hirsch<\/a> has moved up from part-time work to become our eyes and ears in a new Plattsburgh bureau, adding depth to our coverage of the eastern end of the listening area, including a series of great–and disturbing–stories on the heroin epidemic in the region.\u00a0Natasha Haverty<\/a> has segued from her partnership in the more than year-long Prison Time Media Project, to launch an amazing series on campus sexual assault, the latest installment of which ran this week.\u00a0And Julia Botero<\/a>, a shared reporter with WRVO and based in Watertown, has stepped up our coverage in the southwestern part of our area, just this week producing a two-part look at military and veteran suicide and mental health issues, using the story of one former Fort Drum soldier as her stepping-off point.<\/p>\n

Looking at our top five stories this week, as determined by readership and listenership, all these new voices are represented. The number one story is by Zach, the latest in our campus sexual assault series<\/a> (for which Natasha is series lead) looking at the issue through a point of view rarely reported on–that of the accused.<\/p>\n

Also in our top five is Julia’s story about a former 10th Mountain soldier<\/a> who in 2009 nearly became one of the average 22 veterans who take their own lives each day. \u00a0And Sarah–who in addition to her strong chops on serious topics, has a great ear for stories on the hootier end of the news spectrum–makes the list with her story on “Mad Mike,”<\/a> who plans to jump the St. Lawrence this spring riding on a homemade steam-powered rocket.<\/p>\n

If any of you have been worried that many of us at NCPR have achieved “a certain age,” put your mind at ease. Great young journalists and future station leaders are already in the house. And the “old warhorses” still got game, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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