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How the NPR College Podcast Challenge changed lives

NPR | By Anya Steinberg

Published September 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM PDT

Five years later, the first-ever winner of the NPR College Podcast Challenge looks back at her early work in journalism and talks to other participants about where their stories have taken them.