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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.
WQXR chose six elementary schools to participate in a series of themed interactive chamber music concerts in Spring 2018. Two concerts were presented in each school in partnership with Decoda, an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall. All six schools previously received over 10 instruments through the WQXR Instrument Drive and have well-established, rigorous elementary level music programs.
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.
WPLN News’ Versify bridges the many communities of Middle Tennessee. The podcast team works hand-in-hand with the community to enable personal narrative storytelling and the documentation of local histories through poetry.
In 2013, Louisville Public Media launched The Next Louisville, a reporting initiative with the goal of providing ongoing access to in-depth journalism surrounding an important topic in our community and to invite grassroots participation to find creative solutions to community challenges. We select a new topic for each year-long cycle. Now in our third year we have explored race, ethnicity and culture, and how they intersect with the news and community affairs. Previous topics have included education and health.
At Poetry Sunday, local poets reads a poem in a cutaway to “localize” and serve a deeply-committed following.
Fire Tracker is an app offering information about California wildfires and provides emergency services in 36 counties.
Grace Weber, a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter hosts a monthly session – Grace Weber’s Music Lab — where she invites local high school musicians to perform in an “open-mic” setting. In addition, a professional musician or entertainment industry guest shares professional advice and critiques the students’ performances. Each session includes an educational module, guest interview, and student performances.
Troubled Waters is a reporting initiative examining the impact of Trump’s policies on the Great Lakes. To stretch the resources of Great Lakes Today, whose reporters are based in New York and Ohio, the RJC partnered with public radio stations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The result: a five-part radio series (run June 12-16) that highlighted threatened projects on each of the five Great Lakes.
Starting in January 2016, our station began looking in to the Opioid crisis in our local area and across Virginia. We involved a wide range of local organizations to expand our understanding of the breadth of the story. We came up with five stories from five reporters, broadcast over five days with extensive digital material each day.
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.
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.
KFAI’s Somali-American radio program strives to promote cross-cultural understanding and connect different communities.
School of Jazz has existed for 12 years. Each year we select a dozen middle/high school jazz bands. We pair each band with a local music professional. We host a live studio recording session with a videographer, photographer, and post taping production. The video is posted on our YouTube Channel. Some student become guest DJ’s. We include SOJ stories in our news programs. This year we followed three students as they performed at the Essentially Ellington Competition in New York.
Every day at KUT, we try to think about what you want to know. That’s what drives the decisions we make about the stories we tell. But we wanted to try an experiment to bring you, the audience, closer to the news and storytelling we do at KUT. So, we’re starting a project called ATXplained. The project starts with a simple question: What are you curious about?
The Get Involved series highlighted local non-profits through radio stories to raise awareness for their efforts.
KUTX Live At Mueller is an outdoor music series that makes music events accessible to families with children.
KVNF Field Sessions is a video series showcasing musical acts in western Colorado jointly produced by KVNF and Lost Cabin Productions. It helped bring the station new partners and volunteers with new perspectives.
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.