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WMRA partnered with a local micro-brewery to host an evening of conversation with a published—often local—authors. Each person with a member card gets a free beer. These events proved were so successful that we had to limit crowds by offering on our website. Since the brewery does not offer complete dining, we also helped local restaurants and a food trucks who made their services available to the attendees.
Our local discussion series hosted at bars, brew pubs… it’s growing in popularity. “Politics and a Pint is back! Join WOSU Public Media for a second round of lively political discussion in a casual setting on Wednesday, March 16 from 5:30-7:30pm at Dempsey’s Food & Spirits on S. High Street.
Project Milwaukee is a series of in-depth reports on issues vital to southeastern Wisconsin.
Have you ever wondered what makes a new song into a good song? Or why we like the songs we like? West Virginia Public Broadcasting hosts #WhyListen: First Listen Music Party at venues throughout the state. Free by RSVP required by email. Meet Mountain Stage hosts and vote on your favorite new bands and songs.
The Blunt Youth Radio Project brings together high school students in Maine to plan, produce and host a one-hour weekly public affairs program on WMPG. From choosing topics, locating qualified guests, planning interviews, creating complimentary features to extend the topic of the show, and many other activities, the students are in charge as the engineers, the hosts, the producers, the publicists and the interviewers.
In 2010 one of our WGUC announcers asked his musician friends to record an acoustic adaptation of a Christmas classic. The collection was compiled into a CD called the RING CD and Cincinnati Public Radio offered it as a gift during the fall fund drive. It became one of our most popular gifts; musicians loved being a part of the project; it is a strong LOCALLY produced CD. Results to date: 3,774 CD requests and $377,400+ raised from CD sales.
Annual Classical Talent contest for Minnesota High school singers, instrumentalists, composers. Part of Classical MPRs social engagement with young musicians. We also do instrument drives and artist in residence programs.
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.
In 2015 Kansas City PBS became a partner of Hearken, a public-powered journalism initiative that collects questions from the public and bases reporting from those questions. Curious KC asks: “What do you wonder about Kansas City, the region or its people that you would like KCPT to investigate?” Reporting on community-submitted questions has added a kind of user testing to the station’s editorial process.
HMPG host Stephen Joffe interview local food experts in Portland to highlight different approaches to food.
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.
Kids Recording Kids is KMFA’s week-long summer radio camp for rising eighth and ninth graders. Camp participants have the opportunity to create radio spots, record live performances, and conduct interviews with local young musicians. Over the course of the week, Kids Recording Kids campers learn: on-air speaking techniques, live recording skills, radio interviewing skills and editing and audio production techniques. KMFA created this program in 2011 to expand community outreach.
The Capitol Coverage Project is a joint effort of 14 non-commercial public and community radio stations mainly in Colorado, with stations in Utah and New Mexico. Jointly directed through an agreement between KUNC and KRCC, it funds a full-time state house reporter year-round, providing daily news feeds to all the participating stations from sessions of the Colorado State Legislature.
Unheard L.A. is a three-part, live event series where storytellers share tales about life in Southern CA. To gather stories, we used the Public Insight Network, texting through Groundsource, postcards at 70 public libraries, multiple social media platforms, eventually collecting 250 submissions. We placed 25 storytellers in 3 live events, which L.A. Weekly made its ‘pick of the week.’ An attendee called it “The best reflection of L.A. that I have ever seen on stage.” Facebook event posts reached nearly 38,000 people.
WMPG created the weekly half-hour show New Mainers Speak to capture and share stories of “New Mainers,” people who were born citizens of a foreign country and moved to Maine as immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Each week individuals from around the world share their personal experiences in their home countries, as well as here in Maine. These immigration stories bring to life unique perspectives from all over the world and are broadcast Sundays at noon and are available on-line for download or streaming.
Over the past two years KSJD has worked to develop and produce three story-telling initiatives that showcase the importance of first-person story – The Raven Narratives (themed live events with story-tellers from the Four Corners region); Dragon Tales (live events with at-risk youth telling their stories), and Mesa Verde Voices (a podcast series with the voices of archaeologists who study the prehistory of the Southwest and the voices of modern Pueblo peoples who descended from the prehistoric peoples that lived there.)
Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting creates multimedia news packages to accompany major investigative projects that give the public access to our content.
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.
California Counts is a public radio series about California resident’s responses to the Trump administration.
After analyzing police-involved shootings, KPCC created a series of articles that details shootings involving Southern California officers.