WYSO Community Voices’ Peer-to-Peer Initiative

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WYSO’s Peer-to-Peer Initiative is an innovative approach to story collecting that has grown organically out of the station’s Community Voices training project. With help from freelance producers, WYSO trains citizens to interview each other. These interviews became radio and web series and community engagement events. When their stories are shared on the radio, the storytellers are validated and the listeners meet people whose experiences are likely different from their own.

Roseland Health/Salud

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Sonoma County’s KRCB radio and TV is working with bilingual radio station KBBF in Santa Rosa to ask residents of one neighborhood how their annexation into the city of Santa Rosa may affect their health. The project includes English and Spanish news features and call-in shows about issues like housing, immigration, infrastructure, and parks, as they relate to community wellbeing, and interviews with residents and stakeholders.

Words in Transit

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New England Public Radio and Amherst College’s Copeland Colloquium have collected the personal stories of nearly 30 people from around the world who have made their new home in western New England. Traversing continents and cultures, the project illuminates the many pathways leading to our small corner of the globe, and explores the shared experience among those seeking a new life in a foreign land.

WBGO Media Fellowship Program

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The WBGO Media Fellowship Program introduces two Newark area college students each year to a career in public media as they work with and learn from the WBGO news departments. Fellows develop critical thinking skills, technical aspects of studio production, written and oral communication skills, interviewing techniques, teamwork, and the real-world experience that employers seek. The program offers job readiness training, relevant jobs and career advice.

Right Here

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In 2016, GPB was awarded a grant to produce and air 1:40 minute segments highlighting local businesses in Macon and Bibb County, in middle Georgia. The station now airs 1:40 minute segments every Monday in Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The station also now has a dedicated section on the web and the segments are shareable via social media posts.

Unprisoned: Stories from the System

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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.

WXPN/Musicians on Call/Friday Free at Noon/XPoNential Music Festival

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Over a decade ago, we launched several local initiatives that are still paying dividends: Musicians On Call, that sends local artists and guides to the bedsides of hospital patients. Friday Free at Noon concerts: we are the 500-show mark with hundreds attending each week. And Finally, our biggest, our summer XPoNential Music Festival with 30 bands over 3 days along the Delaware River waterfront in New Jersey. We call it a gathering of the tribe.

414 Music

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Radio Milwaukee has the mission to foster community engagement through music and stories. A pillar of this mission is to provide a platform for local musicians to share their work with an engaged and supportive listener base. Key pieces: 414 Music Live a weekly live performance by local artists in front of a live audience, that is broadcast and streamed live; the annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards; and 414music.fm, an HD channel and digital stream broadcasting only Milwaukee music.

Coast Alaska

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Started as an informal alliance, today CoastAlaska provides leadership, representation, planning and support for seven-member stations in Southeast Alaska. It provides financial, personnel administration and bookkeeping; fund raising support, including underwriting and membership services; engineering services; as well as regional news reporting, editorial support, coordination and training for news personnel at member stations.

In Person Live Event Platform

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KPCC organizes in-person events to connect their staff with their listeners. Events are also broadcasted live for a digital audience.

Who Guards the Guardians? A Town Hall Forum

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A town hall forum co-sponsored by KANW, the Albuquerque Journal and City of Albuquerque Dept. of Senior Affairs. The project emerged from an Albuquerque Journal series by reporter Diane Dimond on New Mexico’s court-monitored guardianship program for senior citizens. The resulting Town Hall Forum was held in the Journal auditorium and broadcast live. Issues included the lack of transparency in the legal system and insufficient process of managing the costs of court-appointed advisors.

Charlotte Talks: Public Conversations on WFAE

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About 3-4 times per year, WFAE’s Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins (the station’s one-hour weekday call-in show) facilitates a Public Conversation on an issue important to the Charlotte community. For these conversations, the station pulls together stakeholders and community leaders in front of a live audience to discuss a given issue, and then opens the forum to the audience for further conversation. Attendance numbers in the hundreds for each event and on the radio, the reach is in the thousands.

Ascertainment

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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.

Band Together (2017 Finalist)

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Radio Milwaukee believes music is a powerful force to bring people together – a belief that drives their mission to utilize music to connect diverse audiences. In 2016, they launched Band Together to act on that belief, creating a unique evening of music and food, with diverse, live music – featuring four local bands from four genres – and a variety of ethnic appetizers from local restaurants. Between bands, the station puts on storytelling performances about race and people coming together.

Policy and a Pint

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Policy and the Pint is a joint venture that provokes conversations about public policy in Minnesota and the rest of the country.

KCUR’s Community Focus

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After the 2016 election, we focused on KC exurbs, looking for issues that don’t surface in KC. Led by our community engagement team we went to Atchison, Kansas, to develop an hour-long show. That content also became two local Morning Edition stories, several digital stories and a shorter podcast for KCUR’s series Midwesternish. This content approached the town from a hard news perspective as well as character-driven stories that appealed to both listeners in Atchison and the Kansas City metro.

WABE Civic Engagement and Policy Education Events

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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.

Wisconsin Vote on the Road

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Wisconsin Vote on the Road: Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television took to the road to learn what people around our state were thinking prior to the 2016 election. We fed this to our live morning radio show from a coffee shop and to our live evening TV show from a restaurant. WisconsinVote.org is home to this and other election-related work.

Officer Involved

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After analyzing police-involved shootings, KPCC created a series of articles that details shootings involving Southern California officers.