At WBHM, our aim is to inform and engage our listeners through good journalism. Equally important is our responsibility to the community. In 2016, we partnered with the Birmingham Education Foundation to create a career development conference focused on our city’s youth. To build speaking and writing skills, we invited students develop commentaries with the best ones, selected by a local panel, aired on WBHM.
To build public speaking and writing skills, students wrote and presented commentaries on topics of their choosing. The best ones, judged by WBHM-trained Rotary Club volunteers, aired on WBHM. Over the course of several months, we worked with these students to help edit and focus their pieces before broadcasting their final projects on our web page and social media.