2026
shaylyn martos (she/they) is a Gracie Award winning producer and reporter exploring the intersections of gender and Indigeneity in solutions-focused storytelling. shaylyn is the UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow for News from Native California. They currently serve as a member of the USC Center for Health Journalism Ethnic Media Collective and an at-large board member of the SF-Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She managed and mentored BIPOC youth journalists as a producer in YR Media's newsroom; she was also the season 3 host of Inherited, a climate justice podcast featuring emerging storytellers.
shaylyn is a proud member of the 2024 AIR New Voices Scholars, the KALW Audio Academy, the Next Generation Radio family and the inaugural early-career cohort of Chips Quinn Scholars in 2023. Their work is also featured on NPR's All Things Considered, the Washington Post's Post Reports, KQED's The Bay, and KCBS Radio.
As a producer for YR Media's newsroom, shaylyn managed and mentored interns ages 14-24 in news production and audio commentaries. They also produced projects with outlets like NPR's All Things Considered and the Washington Post's Post Reports podcast; she was also a storyteller in the second season of Critical Frequency and YR Media’s climate justice podcast, Inherited. She was asked to return to host the third season of Inherited. Honored to be a part of the team, shaylyn also produced bonus episodes with behind the scenes interviews featuring each emerging storyteller.
She was also the first Raul Ramirez Diversity in Journalism Fund intern to work with KQED's The Bay podcast, working as a production assistant and reporting their own episode on Stockton's Little Manila. They co-produced and co-hosted The Happy Hour Newscast and served as multimedia editor for SF State's Golden Gate Xpress. In 2019, shaylyn was honored as an NPR Next Generation Radio mentee.
shaylyn also makes time for themselves, reading speculative fiction, cooking favorite CHamoru foods and playing dungeons&dragons. They write their own campaigns and GM, drawing on precolonial Filipinx culture using the companion content of The Islands of Sina Una.
instagram @shaylynmartos
linked-in @shaylyn-martos
shaylyn is a proud member of the 2024 AIR New Voices Scholars, the KALW Audio Academy, the Next Generation Radio family and the inaugural early-career cohort of Chips Quinn Scholars in 2023. Their work is also featured on NPR's All Things Considered, the Washington Post's Post Reports, KQED's The Bay, and KCBS Radio.
As a producer for YR Media's newsroom, shaylyn managed and mentored interns ages 14-24 in news production and audio commentaries. They also produced projects with outlets like NPR's All Things Considered and the Washington Post's Post Reports podcast; she was also a storyteller in the second season of Critical Frequency and YR Media’s climate justice podcast, Inherited. She was asked to return to host the third season of Inherited. Honored to be a part of the team, shaylyn also produced bonus episodes with behind the scenes interviews featuring each emerging storyteller.
She was also the first Raul Ramirez Diversity in Journalism Fund intern to work with KQED's The Bay podcast, working as a production assistant and reporting their own episode on Stockton's Little Manila. They co-produced and co-hosted The Happy Hour Newscast and served as multimedia editor for SF State's Golden Gate Xpress. In 2019, shaylyn was honored as an NPR Next Generation Radio mentee.
shaylyn also makes time for themselves, reading speculative fiction, cooking favorite CHamoru foods and playing dungeons&dragons. They write their own campaigns and GM, drawing on precolonial Filipinx culture using the companion content of The Islands of Sina Una.
instagram @shaylynmartos
linked-in @shaylyn-martos