Doug is Knowledgewebb.net's official Career Coach.

Doug worked at NPR for 21.5 years, most of that time as a producer and director for each of NPR's national newsmagazines. During his time at NPR he founded a hands-on, media training program targeting college students he dubbed "next generation radio."  It launched in 2000 with streaming audio and video of stories concieved, reported, writted and produced by college students.

Doug is a former Knight International Press Fellow, a grantee for the U.S. State Department Visiting Professor program as well as a recipient of a William S. Fulbright grant.  Both fellowships were to Santiago Chile where he helped launch an internet radio station at the top college in Chile as well as worked to fold in public radio style journalism into the curriculum of that that school.

Currently, Doug is the Senior Project Manager for the public radio environmental program "Living On Earth." He's developing a podcast called "Planet Harmony" a program where college age students of color report on environmental sciences from their campuses around the country.

Also, Doug is the new appointed chairman of the National Association of Black Journalists Media Institute.  The Institute is designed to provide a wide range of media specific, but hands-on training to member of NABJ at it's regional and national conferences. Doug manages on-site student media training for NABJ as well as the National Associations of Hispanic, Native American and Gay and Lesbian Journalists

In 2009, Doug's contributions to professional media development were recognized by the Public Radio News Directors Inc.  (PRNDI):, The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and the UNITY: Journalists of Color 

Doug lives in the DC area but if you follow him on Twitter (@nextgenradio) or Facebook, you'll know that he sits on a lot of airplanes.  Why?  When the option is there, face-to-face meet-ups are much better way to coach people to that next big thing.

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