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Western PA has a strong tradition of neighborhood, personal and community commitment. 90.5 WESA Celebrates aims to honor individuals and organizations that are making a difference in people’s lives on the ground level and reminding us we are all truly connected to each other. We will compose sound-rich profiles of people committing the smallest acts of kindness as well as a town that comes together after a natural disaster to rebuild each other’s homes.
KPBS set out to hear and document the stories of diverse people in five communities within San Diego County and the Imperial Valley and find out how factors like ethnicity and income have shaped their identities. “Where I Come From” is the weekly social media video series that highlights these stories.
Modern Gardener is a digital series produced by KUED that celebrates the people, organizations and communities committed to helping gardeners in the states unique region.
Project Milwaukee is a series of in-depth reports on issues vital to southeastern Wisconsin.
West Virginia and Central Appalachia have some of the worst health statistics in the country, but almost no reporters devoted to covering health. We obtained foundation support to hire a full-time health reporter to produce features on insurance coverage, addiction, obesity, etc., always with a view toward causes and possible solutions. We distribute these stories for free to public media outlets throughout the region, as well as newspapers in West Virginia. Several have been picked up by national outlets.
Policy and the Pint is a joint venture that provokes conversations about public policy in Minnesota and the rest of the country.
Hosted by Ryan Warner, Colorado Public Radio’s daily interview show airs Monday through Friday at 10-11 a.m. and 7-8 p.m., Saturdays 7-8 p.m. and Sundays 1-2 p.m.
WYPR’s Community Advisory Board established an initiative – dubbed Ascertainment – to bring community organizations into the station to teach station staff about their work. Each month 2-4 organizations, usually non-profits, present to the station’s producers and reporters, helping build a contact base the reporters and producers can use when working on stories or ideas for future stories based on what is happening in the surrounding communities. The program recently expanded to include Outreach back to the organizations.
In 2011, WYSO launched a radio production and reporting training course called Community Voices, designed to create a new community of radio producers, increase the number of local voices on the station’s airwaves and deepen the station’s relationship with listeners. Each year 8-12 members of the community goes through this intense five-month program to learn these skills and to produce pieces, many of which are aired on the station. To date the station has trained more than 100 people. Read Current’s story about Community Voices.
The Brevard County Candidate Forums is a free forum series where the public can engage with election candidates.
In 2013, Louisville Public Media launched The Next Louisville, a reporting initiative with the goal of providing ongoing access to in-depth journalism surrounding an important topic in our community and to invite grassroots participation to find creative solutions to community challenges. We select a new topic for each year-long cycle. Now in our third year we have explored race, ethnicity and culture, and how they intersect with the news and community affairs. Previous topics have included education and health.
Local news outlets led by KQED and the San Francisco Chronicle coordinate a full day of news coverage on homelessness. They produced 200 stories on this critical issue.
A two-hour call in show with discussion around issues of concern for Hampton Roads. 5 to 7 Fridays. Began as an idea of the host to open phone lines to allow listeners to vent, grief, share solutions with regard to police shootings of African-American men and women in America and the retaliation shooting of police in Texas. After the first show, it was apparent that it needed to advance from a segment to a weekly program.
KFAI’s Somali-American radio program strives to promote cross-cultural understanding and connect different communities.
Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting creates multimedia news packages to accompany major investigative projects that give the public access to our content.
It’s a struggle to find afford living in New York City, and the cost keeps rising. WNYC is looking at what it takes to continue making this place home, one neighborhood at a time. We have published more than two dozen stories focused issues of Affordability. We led conversations on gentrification conference in the South Bronx. Our reporters taught journalism undergraduate and graduate students how to cover the topic of affordability.
Atlanta PBA has launched a year-long series of community events focused on civic engagement and policy education with a secondary goal of enticing a younger, more diverse audience into political involvement. PBA plans to develop community conversations on Governance & Politics, Education, Health and Healthcare, Gentrification & Income inequality, Environmental Sustainability & Conservation, and Diversity in Arts & Culture. Each of the events will be recorded for broadcast on either the radio, TV or web.
Unprisoned is a series showing how mass incarceration in New Orleans and Louisiana – the world’s “incarceration capital” – affects families, communities and notions of justice. The first season looked at the effects on citizenry outside prison walls telling stories of people caught in the criminal legal system, of family members of incarcerated persons, and of residents reentering society after serving time. These stories were broadcast on air, produced as a podcast, streamed, and shared at live events.
Join hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio for smart local conversation with leaders and thinkers shaping Boston. A 3 hour daily, local talk show that provides a “town square” for Boston and surrounding communities. Ask the Governor, Ask the Mayor, Ask the Police Chief. Combines Local and National Topics, phones, regular guests, news quiz… sounds like no other public radio show, consistently #1 in market
SD.Net is a service of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. SD.net furthers SDPB’s mission by providing citizens with live and on-demand access to hearings and floor debate of the South Dakota Legislature, Public Utilities Commission Meetings, other Boards & Commissions, Supreme Court Hearings, SDHSAA Championship events, and many, many more types of events. We offer audio and video webcast services to state agencies, boards and commissions, the state legislature, and for hire.