Faces of NPR: Brittany Luse
Faces Of NPR showcases the people behind NPR--from the voices you hear every day on the radio to the ones who work outside of the recording studio. You'll find out about what they do and what they're inspired by on the daily. Today, we feature Brittany Luse, Host of Its Been a Minute.
The Basics:
Name: Brittany Luse
Title: Host, Its Been a Minute
Twitter Handle: @bmluse
Where you're from: Farmington Hills, MI
Do you think that Howard University prepared you for this position?
Absolutely. My degree from Howard is actually in film production, but for a while my major was public relations so I had to take introductory journalism classes. I would say the things that prepared me the most for this job educationally were going to Howard, and also I had a really great teacher in the seventh and eighth grade named Mr. Koponen. He did a simple unit on journalism and taught us all the journalism terms, how to put together an article. And also he had us watch an episode of Lee Grant to see if we could recognize the terms that we learned and match them to the episode. And honestly, I've been able to come back to the lessons that I learned having Mr. Koponen in middle school and having Lawrence Kaggwa at Howard. The first time I ever used audio software was at Howard for a radio elective that was taught by Candy Shannon. The classes I took at Howard really strengthened my educational background, with Howard
