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EAR TO THE GROUND
2004 Mentorship Program
Durrell Dawson
 Durrell's
Story:
Innervision Youth Productions DVD players and digital
cable have made Hollywood a remote control click away for
many children. But one Chicago program is giving young people
the opportunity to do more with movies than just watch them.
The program uses second-hand equipment, donated or paid for
by grants, to teach filmmaking to teens who live in and around
Chicago's Cabrini Green housing projects.
For more information about Innervision Youth Productions,
visit their Web
site.
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| Durrell Dawson is in his last year at the University
of Illinois at Chicago as a communication major. He plans to
pursue a Master's degree in broadcast journalism and work in
television news as a producer. Durrell has been a writer for
his school's student newspaper for three years and has interned
at ABC Channel 7, but has no experience in radio. He hopes his
experience with the Ear to the Ground program will sharpen his
reporting skills and give him the opportunity to present young
people using their abilities to do positive things at a time
when the media mostly presents the opposite. |
Mentor Profile Ben Calhoun
Deputy News Director, Chicago Public Radio |
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Ben Calhoun is Chicago Public Radio's deputy news director.
He's been working in radio since his second year in college.
His reports can be heard during Morning Edition, Eight
Forty-Eight, and All Things Considered on CPR. Ben
has also done work for the World, the BBC, Radio New Zealand,
and reports regularly for NPR's newcasts unit. He's looking
forward to Ear to the Ground as an opportunity to work with
people who will bring fresh perspectives and new ideas to radio
production. Ben is a staunch advocate of community radio and
any project that makes the medium more available to the public.
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