Doug Mitchell spent nearly 22 years at NPR as a producer and director. In 2000, he founded NPR’s student training program “next generation radio.” It gave hundreds of competitively selected college students a chance to conceive, develop, report, edit, write, and produce their own story under the tutelage of a professional journalist mentor. Several dozen graduates of this program are currently working in public and commercial media. In 2009, Doug continued managing what are now converged student media training projects for minority and other journalist organizations. Doug is a 1978 alum of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund program; a 1997 Knight International Press Fellow to Chile, and a William S. Fulbright Scholarship recipient, also to Chile.