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.
100 Days in Appalachia
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100 Days in Appalachia is a reporting project created the day after the 2016 election that pushes back against parachute journalists’ and national narratives about rural America. It’s published at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media Innovation Center in collaboration with West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) and The Daily Yonder, of the Center for Rural Strategies, headquartered in Kentucky.
Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street Initiative
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The Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) produced an Emmy-winning documentary on the rise and fall of Little Rock, Arkansas’s successful yet segregated African-American business district (1940-50’s), using a historic building in the district known as the Dreamland Ballroom as a focal point. AETN has built dozens of community partnerships; held educational screenings, panels discussions, and workshops; and conducted riveting community dialogues on diversity and race relations throughout 2018 that will undoubtedly continue.
Community in Unity (2018 Winner)
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Community in Unity is a solutions journalism project and event series from Alaska Public Media to begin critical and thoughtful dialogue between different people. APM works with community partners to invite people inside homeless shelters, community centers, prisons, and TV studios for recorded conversations about topics that are affecting them. Topics have ranged from race and identity to mental health, immigration, and incarceration.
Midnight Oil
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Midnight Oil is an ambitious and collaborative project from Alaska’s Energy Desk that explores the rich history of how Alaska became an oil state. The project is an eight-episode podcast, a video series and a standing room only storytelling event.
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.
Young Talent Search/Rising Stars
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Discover Classical’s Young Talent Search and Rising Stars Gala is the station’s annual spotlight on talented young classical musicians in our listening area.
Deskovered: Live Music from Tiny Desk Contest Entrants
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WBHM partnered with a local music venue to host a review of five bands from the Birmingham area who had all entered NPR’s recent Tiny Desk Contest.
WDAV’s Small Batch Concert Series
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WDAV Classical Public Radio has partnered with a local brewery in a trendy section of Charlotte to intersect community and chamber music in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. We bring in a chamber ensemble to perform, and admission to the event is completely free and open to the public. Each performance seeks to highlight younger, emerging artists as well as local talent whenever possible.
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.
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.
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.
KQED’s Youth Takeover of the News
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Over the course of one week, stories pitched and reported by high school students across the Bay Area could be heard on nine of KQED’s news programs and podcasts. To collect and curate these stories, KQED staff collaborated with a pilot group of ten local high school journalism classes over two months.
Verve
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VERVE is KUED’s online series exploring creativity. Now in its sixth season, the series explores local people, creative passion, innovations and imagination.
Minnesota Remembers Vietnam
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MINNESOTA REMEMBERS VIETNAM is a statewide initiative aimed at inspiring Minnesotans to remember and share stories, recognize bravery, express their reasons for dissent, and foster understanding around the lasting impact of the events of 50 years ago.
Cooperative Collaboration
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Small non-profits and small for-profit businesses have a lot in common. In Central Texas in the summer, none of us has enough business! We chose to take advantage of this fact and began collaborating with several other non-profits and small businesses this spring and summer for survival during a difficult time. We found willing partners for our “Cooperative Collaboration” experiment.
Education Programs: Radio Camp & Radio 101
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In just one week, Radio Camp students learn the basics of audio production and produce an audio story ready to air on 88.5 WFDD. Radio 101 works with high-school students interested in audio storytelling.
Community Conversation on Mental Health
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WFDD hosts community conversations on topics that impact local residents. Using a Hearken-powered web module, listeners voted for mental health to be the focus of one such conversation. WFDD reporters covered relevant stories in the days leading up to the public event, during which listeners had round table discussions with one another. WFDD reporters solicited questions for follow-up coverage and connected interested listeners directly with the stories that came out.
Beyond the Ballot
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At its core, “Beyond the Ballot” (BTB) is a community engagement project.
With BTB, WPR is turning our traditional reporting process on its head. Instead of reporters and editors deciding what’s important to cover this election season, we’re asking hundreds of people what they think.