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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.
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.
After analyzing police-involved shootings, KPCC created a series of articles that details shootings involving Southern California officers.
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.
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.
HMPG host Stephen Joffe interview local food experts in Portland to highlight different approaches to food.
The Ship Report is a daily morning podcast that highlights the role of mariners and the local maritime environment.
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.
C89.5 and the Pacific Science Center partnered to produce a bi-monthly laser and music shows to engage a wider audience.
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.
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.
The Baltimore Band Block Party is WTMD’s signature fund-raiser. Each year, 15-20 local bands are given the tools to raise money for WTMD in the form of ticket sales and donations. The station provides exposure to these local bands by putting them in heavy rotation. This on-air support builds familiarity among our listeners. At the end of three weeks the station holds a BBBP concert…the top ten fund raising bands play live with the top three winning substantial prizes.