¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
|
¿QPM? gives Midwestern Latinos a sense of identity and community that is vital to their well being. We do this by producing and distributing authentic, culturally competent bilingual content.
Mission Metrics
|
The Oaklandside was founded on a commitment to listening. This is how we’re living up to that promise.
“By Every Measure”
|
“By Every Measure” is an episodic podcast exploring systemic racism, locally. The series examines Milwaukee’s racial inequities through the lenses of data, policy, storytelling and problem-solving.
Recording Inclusivity Initiative
|
The Recording Inclusivity Initiative addresses the scarcity of classical music composers from historically excluded communities heard on the radio airwaves across the USA by producing new recordings.
MISSING THEM
|
MISSING THEM is a collaborative journalism and community project to identify every New Yorker who died due to COVID-19 and write a story about them. The goal: to bring equity and inclusion in memorials.
Racism Unveiled
|
Racism Unveiled is a multi-platform storytelling project designed to unpack racism in Minnesota, empower BIPOC communities and allies to use their voices, and offer solutions to propel racial equity.
News414
|
News414 is a resident-centered project that uses text messages, social media and events to engage underserved audiences. We plug information and accountability gaps in highly segregated Milwaukee.
Homes
|
“Homes” presented personal stories from residents of Cleveland’s Woodhill Homes as it faced a complete rebuild. It also created space for community dialogue about public housing, race and poverty.
Decibel
|
Decibel is a community-led journalism project. We amplify diverse voices in Central Texas through in-depth listening and storytelling.
COVID Between the Coasts
|
CBC is a data and reporting collaboration between WNIN, the University of Evansville and ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest? It provides a unique set of data and reporting about the pandemic’s impact on the Midwest.
Amplifying Community Voices in Local Media
|
We find, support and amplify Utah’s diverse voices through journalistic storytelling. We do this in deep partnership with young journalists, local media, nonprofits and the communities they serve.
Granite State News Collaborative
|
We have created an infrastructure and communication system that allows more than 20 media, educational and community organizations to share and co-produce news for a statewide audiences.
Resettled
|
Resettled is a six-part podcast series that explores the complex resettlement process through the perspectives of refugees. The podcast team included two former journalists from Afghanistan and a poet and social entrepreneur from Iraq who had experienced resettlement themselves and offered valuable insight. Working with local nonprofits, VPM held a series of storytelling workshops in the community and recorded at booths during international festivals around the state.
Uncuffed
|
Uncuffed is a podcast and radio series made by people incarcerated in California prisons. KALW producers teach them how to record and edit powerful audio stories about life on the inside. Uncuffed seeks to create emotional, human stories to shift the narrative around incarcerated people and change the criminal justice system.
Sahan Journal
|
Sahan Journal, an independent, nonprofit news site in partnership with MPR News, serves the immigrant and refugee populations of Minnesota with professional journalism centered on immigrant lives, voices, and experiences. It has been publishing essential pandemic coverage in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish, in order to be accessible to the three largest immigrant groups in the state.
Radio Milwaukee – Grace Weber’s Music Lab
|
Grace Weber’s Music Lab (GWML) is a free monthly music education program and talent accelerator for Milwaukee area high schoolers, providing opportunities to refine performance skills, build connections between engaged and talented young people, expose participants to the multiple career opportunities available in creative industries and to participate in performances and talks. This program is critical to meeting the growing and changing needs of our city and youth. Grace Weber’s Music Lab reaches kids with art forms that are increasingly relevant and central to their lives, including diverse music from hip-hop to alternative to spoken word.
Valley PBS Local Learning
|
In partnership with Fresno Unified School District, the 3rd largest in the state of California and a district with 90% economically disadvantaged and diverse students living below the poverty line without equal access to online learning, Valley PBS created an on-air program from 8am to 9am each day that targets Literacy Lessons for K-3rd students and is taught by FUSD teachers. Students have been able to learn and review fundamentals over-the-air, streaming on Facebook Live daily and on the website since June and lessons are translated into Spanish and Hmong.
The Time of Our Life
|
Valley Public Radio launches a new broadcast series and podcast dedicated to rediscovering the short stories of Pulitzer Prize winning author and Fresno native William Saroyan. The program features acclaimed authors reading the works and discussing their relevance to our lives in the COVID-19 era.
Get Lit with All Of It
|
“Get Lit with All Of It” is a virtual book club in partnership with the New York Public Library (NYPL) that has become a source of culture, connection and community for New Yorkers even as we remain apart. Participants access each month’s book for free using the NYPL app (with thousands of extra e-copies made available for a free 3-week download) and each month, Alison Stewart hosts a livestream book club event with the featured author, special musical guests and experts who put the themes of the books in a cultural context. “Get Lit” has helped “All of It” reach a larger audience than ever before, and of the top 10 checkouts from the NYPL from March-August 2020, three are are “Get Lit” books.
The TIF Illumination Project
|
Tax Increment Financing districts (TIFs) divert billions of public property tax dollars from local units of government across the USA annually. This is a secretive and corrupt process that sends public dollars to private developers with virtually no grassroots input or evaluation. This is a national story with unlimited local news hooks. It is part of a larger conversation on local economic development, economic and racial justice, government accountability and crass corruption (or, as we say, in Chicago, “pay to play” politics), and it offers rich opportunities for civic engagement, journalism and and volunteer-driven research.