KRTS Youth Media

The KRTS Youth Media Project began as an after-school storytelling intensive for students at Marfa ISD.

During the first two seasons of the project, student producers pitched, wrote and produced their own radio stories. They pursued their own story ideas - from pop culture commentary to testimonials of stereotypes and racism to coverage of drought and aridity in far west Texas. They learned how to do thoughtful, in-depth interviews, tackle the hard issues and turn it all into sound-rich, compelling radio stories.

In 2014, KRTS Youth Media partnered with PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs. Now, mentors draw from PBS curriculum to plan classes and guide final projects.

In 2015, for the third season of KRTS Youth Media, we evolved from an after-school program to teaching within the broadcasting class at Marfa ISD.


The KRTS Youth Media Project believes in empowering youth to tell the stories that they want to tell.