P.S. Weekly is a student-produced podcast that casts mild on essential points within the nation’s largest faculty system. The Bell’s crew of 10 scholar producers who come from totally different public excessive colleges work alongside Chalkbeat NY’s reporters to convey you tales, views, and commentary you will not get wherever else.
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P.S. Weekly is again!
Welcome to Season 2, bringing you the sound of the New York Metropolis faculty system from those that realize it in and out: college students.
P.S. Weekly goes deep on the problems teenagers are speaking about: AI, intercourse ed, politics, immigration, curriculums that replicate their very own identification and expertise, and extra. The podcast — created by Chalkbeat and The Bell and led by veteran producer Ave Carrillo — places college students within the editor’s seat. Ten highschool interns from colleges throughout the boroughs are the present’s hosts, producers, and sound engineers.
Their one-on-one conversations with college students, educators, and consultants will illuminate how the largest information tales of the day intersect with the lives of teenagers within the nation’s largest faculty system.
By means of The Bell’s long-running internship program, college students are studying the instruments and expertise wanted to turn into the subsequent technology of audio journalists. And with steering from Chalkbeat’s crew of seasoned reporters and editors, they’re digging into the nuts and bolts of training journalism. The partnership between the 2 organizations fills a important void: A 2022 research discovered that about 1 in 4 New York Metropolis public excessive colleges has a scholar newspaper or information website. Amongst high-poverty colleges, solely 7% have one.
P.S. Weekly episodes will come out on Thursdays, beginning April 3.
The Season 2 teaser is out there beneath. Listeners can subscribe to P.S. Weekly on all main podcast apps, together with Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Meet your new guides:
Annie He, senior
John Dewey Excessive Faculty, Brooklyn
Annie manages the Arts Honors Society and participates in her faculty’s journalism membership and senior committee. In Annie’s free time, she enjoys writing brief tales and going for walks round her neighborhood.
Aponi Kafele, junior
Essex Road Academy, Manhattan
Aponi is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised lover of dramatics, which exhibits in her faculty band performances and the fiction writing she’s printed. She is the president and founding father of her faculty newspaper, “The Flare,” and has desires of publishing and producing her personal artistic tales.
Bernie Carmona Pereda, senior
The Beacon Faculty, Manhattan
Bernie has been energetic as a scholar reporter at The Bell and a member of The Bronx Documentary Heart. When Bernie isn’t taking photos or doing his homework, he’s often strolling across the metropolis or cooking a brand new dish at house.
Isabella Mason, senior
Midwood Excessive Faculty, Brooklyn
Isabella finds intersections between advocacy and performing arts at her highschool. She writes for Midwood’s “Argus” newspaper and dances in quite a lot of cultural productions. Her devotion to social justice was sparked by docuseries and video essays highlighting the injustices she witnesses in her group. She is passionate a few vary of city points, from redlining to gentrification, but in addition exploring the world in all its ache and glory. Isabella has been printed in Metropolis Limits Information, and works with the Youth Journalism Coalition to channel her ardour for social justice into legislative advocacy. Outdoors of advocacy, Isabella performs volleyball, gardens, and builds computer systems.
Jasmyn Centeno, senior
Unusual Management Constitution Excessive Faculty, Brooklyn
Jasmyn is a member of her faculty’s pictures membership, scholar authorities alliance, and well being info program. When Jasmyn isn’t going insane making use of to scholarships or universities, she likes to take heed to all kinds of music and watch motion pictures like Girl Chicken.
Jojo Fofana, senior
Fordham Excessive Faculty for The Arts, The Bronx.
Jojo regularly works on brief movies together with his mates or private initiatives. His newest movie was a documentary brief, and a brand new movie is presently on the way in which. He’s a member of the Worldwide Thespian Society and has produced two authentic performs for New York Theatre Workshop. If Jojo isn’t feeding on Magik in Marvel Rivals, he’s most likely watching Dandadan.
Katelyn Melville, senior
Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts, Brooklyn
As an explorer and avid seeker of data, you’ll be able to often discover Katelyn wandering by way of town or knee-deep in an web rabbit gap. Since childhood, she has cherished writing, and when she’s not looking the net endlessly, you’ll discover her eyes glued to previous Gray’s Anatomy episodes, writing a poem, or studying her mates’ tarot playing cards!
Mateo Tang Oreilly, sophomore
Central Park East Excessive Faculty, Manhattan
Mateo is a member of his faculty’s debate crew and Nationwide Honor Society. He has a ardour for the sphere of enterprise and making an attempt new meals.
Roberto Bailey, junior
Hunter School Excessive Faculty, Manhattan
Roberto serves as information managing editor of his faculty newspaper, editor-in-chief of its analysis journal, and public discussion board novice director of the speech and debate crew. Outdoors of college, Roberto likes to strive new cafés and spend time together with his cat.
Sanaa Stokes, senior
Skilled Performing Arts Excessive Faculty, Manhattan
Sanaa is majoring in drama at PPAS. She is the vp of the Black Pupil Union in addition to the Girls’s Development and Liberation Membership. When she’s not rehearsing her strains, she enjoys watching romantic comedies. Within the fall of 2025, Sanaa will attend Spelman School as an English main.
Ave Carrillo, govt producer
Ave has been within the enterprise of creating radio and audio tales for the reason that late 1990’s. Most lately she was govt producer of native podcasts for WNYC the place she launched the thrice every day present NYC Now. Earlier than that she served as senior producer of The New Yorker Radio Hour. There, she was a key member of the crew that helped form the editorial course of the present, making it one of many quickest rising podcasts and radio applications at WNYC. Previous to that, she labored for a number of exhibits together with the Peabody Award-winning program Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, PRI’s Honest Sport, Metropolitan Opera Radio, and extra.
Carolina Hidalgo, engagement editor
Carolina is an audio producer, photojournalist and educator from Queens, New York. She’s the previous senior producer of WNYC’s Radio Rookies program, the place she labored with teenagers and younger adults to provide award-winning radio tales about their lives and communities.All through her profession as a photographer and reporter at varied newspapers and public radio stations, Carolina has targeted on tales about inequality, justice reform, and social actions. She has reported from the U.S.–Mexico border as an Worldwide Girls’s Media Basis fellow and has taught on the Craig Newmark Graduate Faculty of Journalism at CUNY. Her work has been acknowledged by the Third Coast Worldwide Audio Pageant and the Gracie Awards, amongst others, and she or he was beforehand named one among The Lit Checklist’s “30 photographers to observe.”
P.S. Weekly is a collaboration between The Bell and Chalkbeat, made potential by beneficiant assist from The Pinkerton Basis.