Sights & Sounds of East Oakland

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KALW’s Sights & Sounds of East Oakland is a multi-pronged project that aims to shine a light on creators in a community often mis- or underrepresented in media. Through live community events featuring dance, music, storytelling and visual art, as well as multimedia presentations based on reporting from KALW’s newsmagazine Crosscurrents and community partners like Oakland Voices and East Oakland Youth Development Center, we celebrate grassroots creativity and build new connections within and beyond these communities. The project also encompasses community media training with youth and adults through our partners, and utilizes our Hearken-powered, crowd-sourced journalism project Hey Area to draw coverage and story ideas from East Oakland residents.

88 Cities

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“88 Cities” is a listener-driven series: we solicit people to become tour guides for their own city and tell us what makes it unique among all others in the county. Our end goal is to enlighten our whole audience about the cities that are their neighbors.

The SPARK and The SPARK Awards

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WKNO’s The SPARK is a monthly half-hour interview program highlighting efforts in community service and technological and collaborative innovation by nonprofits, corporations, local businesses and educational organizations. The SPARK is produced in partnership with cityCURRENT, a privately-funded organization comprised of 80+ local businesses focused on moments and media along with philanthropy and volunteerism to “power the GOOD” and provide a positive influence in the Mid-South.

Community Conversations — a Facebook Live initiative

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To reach a new (and younger) audience, WNED | WBFO converted its radio pledge room into a small studio this year. It’s used to create “community conversations” — interactive events on Facebook Live and other social media. The stations are hosting discussions on a wide range of topics — from mental health and racial equity to local theater and summer reads. 

Podcast Party

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Podcast Party is a live event that brings together several of our station’s podcasts. For one evening, our listeners can see their favorite podcast hosts and get a new perspective of some of their favorite stories. Over the course of two hours, the event is a multi-act showcase of our podcasts in new, creative, whimsical and thought-provoking interpretations. This includes a live musical performance, a short exercise break and a puppet show version of an episode of Curious Nashville.

Turning the Tables: KC Showcase

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In a local take on the NPR series “Turning the Tables,” musician and staff writer at 90.9 The Bridge, Michelle Bacon, looked at gender, equality and the future of the Kansas City music scene. Her four part series “Turning the Tables: KC Edition,” published at bridge909.org, culminated in a live panel and showcase of women in music.

She Says

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WFAE’s new investigative podcast “She Says,” follows the story of a sexual assault survivor in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County and the long and difficult process of finding justice. As of this writing, no one has been brought to justice.

Expressions of Art

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KVCR radio partnered with our sister station, KVCR TV, to produce stories about art organizations in our region. We produced 15 radio stories and 16 stories for television with a focus on the arts in our community. We worked to highlight many art-based, educational and non-profit organizations in low income areas to show the significance of the arts and people on behalf of the youth in our area.

Writer’s Block

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Writer’s Block is a station initiative that brings together local playwrights, poets, and story tellers to present their original work before a live studio audience.

Houston After Harvey

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“Houston after Harvey” is a multi-platform content initiative from Houston Public Media that examines the impact of the Texas Gulf Coast’s most severe storms through personal stories, intimate video interviews, and in-depth news coverage. Content produced for the project included multiple podcasts, video series, and television and radio specials.

The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

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Designed as a cross promotional tool for our sister television station KVCR’s broadcast of Ken Burns and Lynn Novack’s The Vietnam War, film KVCR Radio produced an eight-part series with veterans sharing their time in service during the Vietnam war. Our focus was the music of that time and the songs they remembered and reflect on when thinking about the Vietnam War.

North Country Public Radio In Your Town (North Country At Work) (2018 Finalist)

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North Country at Work (NC@W) has been collecting photographs and audio content that tell historic and contemporary stories of people at work, town by town, across the vast rural geography of New York State served by North Country Public Radio. NC@W is now returning to the featured towns, setting up photo exhibits, and hosting work-related story slams, which are recorded and added to the NC@W permanent archive.

Food Traditions

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A collaborative project between WPT and WPR, Food Traditions explores expressions of identity through food. From the Mississippi River to lake Michigan, the Apostle Islands to Beloit, we learn about ingredients Wisconsinites choose to grow, collect, use and leave out, how they prepare a dish, whom they share it with and how these traditions construct their sense of identity. This project explores underrepresented identities, touching on topics like family tradition, food sovereignty, assimilation, integration, community building, health, immigration and sustainability. With popular shows like Wisconsin Foodie and Around the Farm Table and with the recent success of the Great Wisconsin Baking Challenge, food has become part of the WPT brand. This project is leveraging our digital community and asking them to engage with us around food in a more comprehensive way.

CapRadio Presents: Tiny Desk Sacramento

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Spurred by the voice of a community member, Capital Public Radio created the region’s first Tiny Desk concert, showcasing multiple local entrants who entered this year’s national contest and highlighting numerous others with promotional and follow-up blog content at capradio.org.

Live Radio Theater for a Rural Community

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For the past three years, KZMU has used open auditions to cast an original musical play in our small community (population 5,000). We rehearsed for six weeks and performed in front of live audiences at a local venue and aired the play on the radio. The first two seasons were aired in episodes, and the last as an entire piece. Our actors/singers/Foley technicians/musicians/engineers have ranged in age from 6 to 70, and our audiences have grown each year as more people are engaged in this locally created audio theatre.

90.5 WESA Celebrates …

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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.

Backline

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Backline is a program to elevate the Milwaukee music scene. It has two parts: (1) free quarterly workshops for all (2) $20,000 grants and a 12-week accelerator for four artists/bands. It’s the first program in the US to use the startup accelerator model to advance the careers of musical artists.

Struggling For Care: Stories of the San Joaquin Valley’s Doctor Shortage

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Valley Public Radio’s Kerry Klein produced a reporting and community engagement project on the severe shortage of doctors in the San Joaquin Valley. It included four in-depth reports, a public forum event held at the radio station, and an online interactive map featuring listener stories dealing with the San Joaquin Valley’s shortage of health care providers.

Participating in a Capital Public Radio Story Circle in August 2017

Place And Privilege Story Circles

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As part of Capital Public Radio’s multi-platform documentary, “The View From Here: Place And Privilege,” there were Story Circles that brought wildly diverse residents face-to-face to talk about Sacramento’s housing affordability crisis. The experience was so successful that CapRadio secured funding to train 20 community partners in the Story Circle methodology, host additional events, and produce a downloadable guide for newsrooms, community organizations, and others who want to discuss housing, belonging, and community well-being.