Instrument Drive

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With the help of our partners at Sam Ash Music Stores, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, and the NYC Dept. of Education, WQXR asked people to donate their gently used instruments which would then be repaired and distributed to public schools throughout the five boroughs. With the support of our community and sponsors, they hoped to collect 1,000 instruments. The drive was successful beyond their wildest dreams. Over 2,000 generous music lovers joined in the effort and donated nearly 3,000 instruments.

Multimedia Journalism in Warm Springs

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Catering to the Confederated Tribes of Warms Springs in Oregon, KWSO partnered with the tribal newspaper to produce multimedia reporting and public service campaigns for the community.

The Affordability Project

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It’s a struggle to find afford living in New York City, and the cost keeps rising. WNYC is looking at what it takes to continue making this place home, one neighborhood at a time. We have published more than two dozen stories focused issues of Affordability. We led conversations on gentrification conference in the South Bronx. Our reporters taught journalism undergraduate and graduate students how to cover the topic of affordability.

KVNF Field Sessions

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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.

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.

WNIN Summer of Music

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WNIN broadcasts a Summer of Music series each of the last eight years with the goal of celebrating the rich heritage of live music in the area. We visit major music festivals to record performances and broadcast live or air the following week. We also produce a retrospective program with audio from all the festivals on Labor Day to conclude the series.

Community Purchase of KPLU-FM

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In 2016, against all odds, KPLU-FM was successfully purchased by the community from Pacific Lutheran University for $7 million in cash and $1 million of in kind contributions. Details of this extraordinary community initiative have been well documented in Current and in The Pub #71.

Outdoorsy Podcast

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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.

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.

Next Generation Voices

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Next Generation Voices is an initiative by WBHM-FM to allow the city’s youth to produce and broadcast projects on topics that matter to them. Students were selected during a professional development conference and worked with the WBHM team to develop their stories over several months.

The Next Louisville

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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.

Project Milwaukee

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

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.

Bringing music to patients

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Patients at Mayo Clinic hospitals in Rochester; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix will be able to relax to a custom blend of classical music provided by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). A new agreement calls American Public Media (APM) — the largest provider of classical music programming in North America — to supply up to 17 hours of streaming classical music that Mayo Clinic can distribute at no charge to patients and visitors in patient rooms.

Poetry Sunday

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At Poetry Sunday, local poets reads a poem in a cutaway to “localize” and serve a deeply-committed following.

Mahamud Osman

Ode: Stories Without Borders (2017 Winner)

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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.

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.

88Nine Presents

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88Nine reaches a new generation of radio listeners with a series of public affairs programs known as 88Nine Presents. These programs look closely at different aspects of Milwaukee life and its diverse neighborhoods. The series covers topics that can be divisive, but the station works to present the stories with a solution-based approach. Each series includes 3-8 min videos (placed on-line for streaming/download) plus shorter on-air radio segments.

In a photo from the 1910s

North Country Public Radio/North Country at Work

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North Country at Work is a multiplatform project exploring the “history of work” through photographs stored in libraries, historical associations, museums and residents’ homes. We go community by community, to scan photographs and record stories about work. We are building a software platform for archival materials that will be searchable and interactive, encouraging exploration and discovery. We will share the software platform with other stations to use for their own multimedia projects.

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.