training ground<\/a> for Fordham students through both paid and unpaid employment opportunities. Singleton said the station moved away from a semester or summer-long internship model, instead recruiting students in their first year at Fordham and putting them through workshops in different areas, which Singleton helped implement.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd then from there, they can move into paid positions and stay for as long as they\u2019re at Fordham, which sometimes can be four years and often five with grad programs as well,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cOverall, we train about as much as 150 students a year by way of our workshops and then their continued involvement with the station.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singleton said that the training program is significant to WFUV\u2019s mission as the staff are able to work closely with the students in the program.<\/p>\n
Lainey Nguyen, FCRH \u201927, started at WFUV during her first year at Fordham and now serves as the news station\u2019s student manager. She has been working with Singleton since her first day at WFUV.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of student staff, and Chuck is always very helpful and outgoing with everything that he does and extremely generous when it comes to giving us opportunities to either be in the news or doing the music side of things or video,\u201d Nguyen said.<\/p>\n
Nguyen said that both Singleton and WFUV played a paramount role in kicking off her career in journalism.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I would be where I am today in terms of what I know about journalism and the opportunities that I\u2019ve had if it wasn\u2019t for Chuck and FUV,\u201d Nguyen said.<\/p>\n
Another student, Alexandra Pfau, FCRH \u201926, has been working in the newsroom for three years and reflected on Singleton\u2019s presence at the station.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m just going to miss running into him and having conversations with him,\u201d Pfau said. \u201cHe always has something interesting to talk about and it\u2019s always fun to have a little talk with him in the middle of your day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made a joke to me that I\u2019m graduating this year, so it\u2019s kind of like we\u2019re graduating together,\u201d said Pfau.<\/p>\n
Singleton doesn\u2019t just work with the news team at WFUV, but contributes to the station\u2019s sports and music sections as well. Sports manager Joseph Henry, FCRH \u201926, commented on his impact on the station.<\/p>\n
\u201cChuck\u2019s warmth and genuine interest in students at WFUV helped make the studio a second home,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n
As for what will come next for Singleton, he said he is looking forward to spending time with his family. The first thing on his list is getting plane tickets to visit his daughter in Tasmania.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to take some time to kind of air out my head and think about what\u2019s next for me,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cI\u2019m not planning to work. I\u2019m planning to have a lot of fun and do things that I love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singleton raised a family throughout the 2000s, and with the rise of smartphones and work becoming a 24\/7 job with technology, he said it got harder to take time off.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that is one of those life lessons, take on more responsibility, it\u2019s going to be harder to find yourself in all of that,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cSo I\u2019d like to find a little more of myself again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singleton will officially depart from his role at WFUV on June 30. A formal announcement on who will be replacing him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Fordham University\u2019s Voice (WFUV), a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate station located in the Bronx, will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-198072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}