Trenae is a radio producer working for WHYY’s program “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane”, a thought-provoking news and discussion show that airs weekdays at 11 AM. Trenae’s job is broken up into to main roles: to prep Marty on discussion topics and guests before the show and then to handle guests and screeen all call-ins to the show during broadcast. If you’re interested in a career in radio, Trenae suggests shadowing a producer for a day and reading as much content as possible!
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My name is Trenae Nuri and I'm a producer at WHYY's Radio Times. As a producer for Radio Times, I work really close with Marty Moss-Coane, so I prep her before the show, so I'm usually giving her like a big folder full of articles. I'm emailing her video clips and audio clips about the topic that we're gonna discuss for the next day. So the next day, we come in. She's already prepped. She knows what's gonna happen or she's read the book if we're interviewing an author. So, also, I book guests for the show, so I have to make sure that they can come to our Philadelphia studio or we can connect with them through a landline or cellphone. Sometimes we can get them in another NPR studio around the country. I also have to manage the phone lines, which can get really busy depending on the particular topic of the day, so I ask people, "Radio Times, "what's your comment or question?" and they'll tell me what they want to say on air. So I have to quickly summarize what they're gonna say. I usually put a smiley face if I want Marty to take that one next. And I'm also monitoring our social media, so I'm looking at our Tweets, our Facebook comments, our emails, and our texts and I'm gathering all that and posting that on a screen and Marty reads that out throughout the show. So, we're a live one-hour program, so there's a lot of moving parts. We can't do things over again, so it keeps me on my toes and keeps me busy. When you're in the news, there really is no ending, but I work from about 8:30 to 1:30 and then I close it up and I say, "Okay, I'm gonna now spend time with my family," but I do keep track all the time of Twitter and I love watching the Nightly News at like 6:30. I'm watching 60 Minutes, just so that I can be aware of a lot of different topics. We like to read a lot of newspapers. I love the New Yorker. So reading different things, being active in your community, keeps me up on what's going on.
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