about me
2024
shaylyn martos (she/they) works to provide better representation of LGBTQ+ and indigenous people in media. As an audio auntie working with BIPOC youth at YR Media, she hopes to create pathways for young journalists of color to make their passions their livelihoods.
As an Associate Producer for YR Media's newsroom, shaylyn manages and mentors interns ages 14-24 in news production and audio commentaries. They also produce 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 the first to hold a rotating host position in Inherited's third season — establishing a position for young journalists to host and co-produce each new season.
shaylyn was honored as one of the 2024 AIR New Voices Scholars, and member of the inaugural early-career cohort of Chips Quinn Scholars in 2023. 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.
twitter @shaylynmartos
linkedin @shaylyn-martos
email [email protected]
shaylyn martos (she/they) works to provide better representation of LGBTQ+ and indigenous people in media. As an audio auntie working with BIPOC youth at YR Media, she hopes to create pathways for young journalists of color to make their passions their livelihoods.
As an Associate Producer for YR Media's newsroom, shaylyn manages and mentors interns ages 14-24 in news production and audio commentaries. They also produce 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 the first to hold a rotating host position in Inherited's third season — establishing a position for young journalists to host and co-produce each new season.
shaylyn was honored as one of the 2024 AIR New Voices Scholars, and member of the inaugural early-career cohort of Chips Quinn Scholars in 2023. 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.
twitter @shaylynmartos
linkedin @shaylyn-martos
email [email protected]