Jocelyn Robinson
Director of Radio Preservation & Archives at WYSOJocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, Ohio-based media producer and radio preservationist. She is the director of the Center for Radio Preservation & Archives at WYSO public radio.
A Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2013 and an AIR New Voices Scholar in 2014, Robinson's recent audio work has included West Dayton Stories at WYSO, and as an independent producer has contributed to the Goethe-Institut USA podcast The Big Ponder and WHYY’s The Pulse.
Guiding the growth and development of the WYSO Archives for over a decade, Robinson has established the archive’s infrastructure and positioned WYSO as a national leader in radio preservation. She is skilled in using historical media in content creation, producing Rediscovered Radio, a series of short documentaries using WYSO’s civil rights and Vietnam era audio as source material. With WYSO’s music director Juliet Fromholt, she is co-producer/co-host of the podcast Rediscovered Radio: Women’s Voices, Women’s Music in the Archives.
A member of the African American and Civil Rights Radio Caucus of the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress, Robinson is project director of a multi-year effort to preserve and celebrate radio produced at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The HBCU Radio Preservation Project is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Robinson was recipient of the 2022 Merit Award from the Society of Ohio Archivists and serves as president on the board of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
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This inaugural episode of "Broadcasting History: The HBCU Radio Legacy" examines how radio has functioned as both a tool for oppression and resistance, and highlights the extraordinary achievements of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in creating broadcasting operations that not only trained students but transformed American culture. -
Follow the HBCU Radio Preservation Project as we rediscover the magic of Black college radio. Through archival recordings, oral histories, and visits to historic campuses, we explore how HBCU radio stations serve as vital communication hubs, launching pads for Black voices, and catalysts for social change. Tune in as we bring these vital histories to life and explore their relevance to today's media landscape.
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Cohosts Jocelyn Robinson and Juliet Fromholt have an audio preview of the next few episodes, which dive deep into women’s music of the past four decades. -
Take a trip down Memory Lane with Suzanne Hopkins of the Hotmud Family.
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In this bonus episode of Rediscovered Radio: Women's Voices, Women's Music in the WYSO Archives, an interview between co-host Jocelyn Robinson and WYSO’s former general manager, Neenah Ellis.
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In the 1970s, Celtic music found a home on WYSO’s airwaves alongside bluegrass, and numerous other genres. It was a love for Celtic music that brought Phyllis Brzozowska to WYSO, and eventually to presenting concerts for the Dayton community. Those concerts led to the creation of Cityfolk, a local organization that celebrated music from a variety of folk traditions.
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In the early-mid 1970s, WYSO was the site of an explosion in bluegrass and old-time music, both on the air and at venues throughout the Miami Valley. -
Over the past 66 years, WYSO made the transition from a student-run college radio station to community radio to the Miami Valley’s major public media outlet, and the WYSO Archives holds the chronicle of that transition.
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In the premier issue of “West Dayton Stories Zine,” producers of WYSO’s popular series “West Dayton Stories”—including amaha sellasie, Tiffany L. Brown, Omopé Carter Daboiku, Love’Yah Stewart, and Jaylon Yates—briefly introduce themselves and give readers useful tips for everything from photography to fashion to gardening. Readers also can scan QR codes that will take them to archived episodes (some of them longer than those that first aired) from the inaugural season of the series. -
In the summer of 1973, César Chávez came to Dayton from the strike lines in Coachella, California to talk about the plight of farm workers. There was a week of activities and WYSO News was right in the middle of it. Rediscovered Radio’s Jocelyn Robinson examined the struggles facing the migrant worker community, then and now.
