Unprisoned: Stories from the System

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Unprisoned is a series showing how mass incarceration in New Orleans and Louisiana – the world’s “incarceration capital” – affects families, communities and notions of justice. The first season looked at the effects on citizenry outside prison walls telling stories of people caught in the criminal legal system, of family members of incarcerated persons, and of residents reentering society after serving time. These stories were broadcast on air, produced as a podcast, streamed, and shared at live events.

Officer Involved

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After analyzing police-involved shootings, KPCC created a series of articles that details shootings involving Southern California officers.

"Texas Standard" host David Brown listens back to a segment.

Texas Standard

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Texas Standard is setting a new bar for broadcast news coverage, offering crisp, up-to-the-moment coverage of politics, lifestyle and culture, the environment, technology and innovation, and business and the economy – from a Texas perspective – and uncovering stories as they happen and spotting the trends that will shape tomorrow’s headlines.

Community Service Fundraiser

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In 2014, when we fell short of our annual revenue goal, we didn’t feel comfortable just asking more from our listeners without offering something in return. Thus, the Community Service Fundraiser was born. From late-November to New Year’s Eve for every $500 raised in support of WERS, we “pay it forward” by donating one hour of volunteer to Rosie’s Place, the nation’s first shelter for poor and homeless women. One gift, double the impact — it’s now WERS holiday tradition.

There Goes the Neighborhood

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An in-depth look at the gentrification of Brooklyn, from the developers to the mayor’s plan for affordable housing, to the integral role that race plays in the process.

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.

WXPN/Musicians on Call/Friday Free at Noon/XPoNential Music Festival

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Over a decade ago, we launched several local initiatives that are still paying dividends: Musicians On Call, that sends local artists and guides to the bedsides of hospital patients. Friday Free at Noon concerts: we are the 500-show mark with hundreds attending each week. And Finally, our biggest, our summer XPoNential Music Festival with 30 bands over 3 days along the Delaware River waterfront in New Jersey. We call it a gathering of the tribe.

Ascertainment

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WYPR’s Community Advisory Board established an initiative – dubbed Ascertainment – to bring community organizations into the station to teach station staff about their work. Each month 2-4 organizations, usually non-profits, present to the station’s producers and reporters, helping build a contact base the reporters and producers can use when working on stories or ideas for future stories based on what is happening in the surrounding communities. The program recently expanded to include Outreach back to the organizations.

WYSO Community Training

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In 2011, WYSO launched a radio production and reporting training course called Community Voices, designed to create a new community of radio producers, increase the number of local voices on the station’s airwaves and deepen the station’s relationship with listeners. Each year 8-12 members of the community goes through this intense five-month program to learn these skills and to produce pieces, many of which are aired on the station. To date the station has trained more than 100 people. Read Current’s story about Community Voices.

WCRB Sounder Project

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To create a distinctive sound, we partner with the Boston Conservatory to compose and produce “sonic signatures.” 20 composition students competed to create the winning sounders, one winner. The winners created 115 variations, which were recorded with the full Boston Conservatory Orchestra at our WGBH studios. These Sounders are now central to the WCRB sound.

Bridge of Song

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Collaboration between MPR and KERA that marked a moment of crisis in both communities, after the shootings in St. Paul and Dallas. A live choral event for people in both cities to sing together and find solace after these painful events. Read Current’s story.

Soltau records students' responses to her music.

90.5 WUOL Education Outreach (2017 Finalist)

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90.5 WUOL, a member station of Louisville Public Media, provides access to classical music to more citizens of the region than all other arts organizations combined. The station has made a concerted effort to embrace its role as a leader in education, young artist development, and community service, through the creation of outreach programs that encourage children, families, and schools to engage with classical music and public radio stories.

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.

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.

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.

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.

414 Music

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Radio Milwaukee has the mission to foster community engagement through music and stories. A pillar of this mission is to provide a platform for local musicians to share their work with an engaged and supportive listener base. Key pieces: 414 Music Live a weekly live performance by local artists in front of a live audience, that is broadcast and streamed live; the annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards; and 414music.fm, an HD channel and digital stream broadcasting only Milwaukee music.

Band Together (2017 Finalist)

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Radio Milwaukee believes music is a powerful force to bring people together – a belief that drives their mission to utilize music to connect diverse audiences. In 2016, they launched Band Together to act on that belief, creating a unique evening of music and food, with diverse, live music – featuring four local bands from four genres – and a variety of ethnic appetizers from local restaurants. Between bands, the station puts on storytelling performances about race and people coming together.