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 2007 William S. Fulbright scholar.  Each of the 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 public radio style journalism into the curriculum of that that school.

Currently, Doug is co-director of a Ford Foundation funded program to develop minority journalists as new media entrepreneurs. The Fellows to this program are members of the UNITY: Journalists of Color alliance partners. Each competitively selected participant received 1.5 days of business training and also pitches for startup funding.

Also, Doug is the chair of the National Association of Black Journalists Media Institute.  The Institute is designed to provide a wide range of media specific, but hands-on professional training to members of NABJ.

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.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougmitchelladelante