Movers & Thinkers

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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.

Words in Transit

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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.

WUWM/Precious Lives

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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.

WAMU/Capital Soundtrack

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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.

WBGO Media Fellowship Program

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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.

Charlotte Talks: Public Conversations on WFAE

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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

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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.

WMRA’s Books & Brews

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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.

Project Milwaukee

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Project Milwaukee is a series of in-depth reports on issues vital to southeastern Wisconsin.

Blunt Youth Radio Project

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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.

Locally Produced Benefit CDs

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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.

Minnesota Varsity

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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.

Colorado Matters

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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.

Food Stories

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HMPG host Stephen Joffe interview local food experts in Portland to highlight different approaches to food.

Kids Recording Kids

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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.

Capitol Coverage (CO)

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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.

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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.

New Mainers Speak

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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.

Raven Narratives, Dragon Tales, and Mesa Verde Voices

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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.)