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The Outdoorsy podcast was created to share stories about the people and places of Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. Each episode, between 15-20 minutes, places the listener rock climbing, spelunking or other outdoor activities to give a feel for the parks. We feel it’s a great way to be hyper-local and take listeners on an experience that explains the places around them in a fresh way.
Ode is a bimonthly live storytelling event from KWIT-KOJI Siouxland Public Media, of which Stories Without Borders was one installment. For this particular evening, the station teamed up with two other nonprofit organizations: the Mary Treglia Community House, whose mission is to help immigrants living in the community, and the Sioux City Art Center. Six storytellers stood before a live audience to tell their stories of leaving one home for another.
When our long-time classical music retired, we rearranged our schedule and created In the Moment, a daily news and culture magazine program….”[with] a rooted sense of place, and that place is South Dakota. In the Moment features authentic conversations with news makers, scholars, artists, and everyday South Dakotans. We bring you world-class radio storytelling featuring the highest journalistic integrity.”
Each weekday in June we post a new audio diary, as it is aired on Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Classical, with listeners sharing their passion and love for a particular piece of music that has affected them. It’s a powerful reminder of the role music plays in all our lives.
In front of a live audience in our studio we conduct an interview with three creative, influential Nashvillians from different fields using a common theme. For example, in a theme about investigators, we included an investigative reporter, a private eye, and a disease detective. Following the taping, we serve refreshments and provide an opportunity to meet our guests. We edit each interview session into a 25-minute podcast and a few short radio pieces, garnering as many as 80,000 downloads.
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.
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.
In early 2017 WABE launched a dedicated news desk – WABE Health – focused on health reporting. Content includes significant local coverage produced by the health desk staff in addition to national- international stories. Content is posted on the station’s website and selected pieces are aired on the radio and TV platforms. A future radio documentary is in the planning stage and will be presented in conjunction with a major community engagement event to further outreach and promotion efforts.
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
Precious Lives is a multiplatform civic engagement project that examines the crisis of gun violence among young people in the Milwaukee area. Over its two-year life, it aspires to “open conversations” between individuals, organizations and community constituencies. Partners include 371 Productions; public radio’s WUWM-FM; WNOV-AM, a black community-oriented commercial station; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
The Public Media Commons is a space that acts as a catalyst for community engagement.
A Hearken Project exploring a deeper partnership with the local daily newspaper (under new ownership). “Are you curious about Columbus? Find yourself asking questions about the city, the region or the people of central Ohio? Then submit your question to Curious Cbus and we’ll work on getting answers, together, through the resources of 89.7 NPR News, WOSU TV, Classical 101, and the WOSU Digital Media teams.”
A locally produced community commentary series. “Tell us the personal philosophy and core values that guide your daily life, and hear stories from others.” This I Believe is based on the 1950s radio program of the same name and the media project (launched in 2005) from This I Believe, Inc. and Atlantic Public Media. WPSU-FM invites you, as a central Pennsylvania resident, whatever your background, to speak out.
C89.5 and the Pacific Science Center partnered to produce a bi-monthly laser and music shows to engage a wider audience.
“i go home” is a one-hour 2016 TV documentary produced by WITF chronicling the journey from institution to inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in the 1960’s. This title honors a man with intellectual disability who was institutionalized at Pennhurst State School and Hospital in eastern Pennsylvania during childhood and could only say those three words. The goal of the film was to increase society’s awareness of the journey of Pennsylvanians with intellectual disability and their contribution to American life.
WAMU debuted Capital Soundtrack in 2016, a project that creates a daily music playlist with tracks from local musicians that is played as interstitial material throughout the day. Each day, a WAMU staffer makes a playlist of 20 musical segments of varying lengths and stocks it with a variety of musical genres to accommodate varying moods following stories. The station tries to limit previously played material to 1/3 of the list and posts the playlist to the website.
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.
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.
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.
A collaborative statewide effort by Florida’s public radio stations: WLRN, WJCT, WUSF, WFSU, WQCS, WUFT, WMFE, WUWF and WGCU. We hired an editor for a 6-month election project. 11 stations aired features. Five talk show hosts worked on a state-wide talk show focused on the election (1 hr. per week each week for 10 weeks).