COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience

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“COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience” is a 10-week multimedia visual, audio, and written word series that tell stories of resilience in the local community. It focuses on our local shared experience of the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of George Floyd and others. WDET partnered with Documenting Detroit, a photojournalism and arts organization, to produce and tell these stories through the eyes of five local documentary photographers and one spoken word artist.

KOSU Audio Diaries

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As journalists were furloughed and Oklahomans became isolated during the pandemic, KOSU worked to keep the community connected and to preserve these snapshots of history for future generations through user-submitted audio diaries. In the same way news archives from 1918 have provided perspective for journalists today, these audio diaries are being archived in collaboration with the Oklahoma Historical Society.

NH Primary 2020

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In covering the 2020 New Hampshire Primary, New Hampshire Public Radio set out to interrogate every assumption about ithe primary process and our own political journalism Through questions and suggestions, the public set our reporting agenda. As a result, NHPR built new muscle that later made our coverage of COVID-19 pandemic indispensable for our state.

California Reporting Project

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The California Reporting Project is a statewide collaboration of 40 local and regional newsrooms working together to cover long-secret internal investigations of police officers which were unsealed in 2019. It is a locally driven, large-scale investigative journalism project that has published more than 100 stories, including several deep-dive investigations, exposed numerous failures in accountability, and led to dismissals of criminal charges in multiple cases.

You Know The Place

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You Know the Place (YKTP) is a podcast that examines the small local businesses most of us never enter or even notice. YKTP gos to the stores overlooked by any form of media to ask: What do you sell or make? Who’s your customer? How long have you been in business? How do you compete with Walmart and Amazon? Hosted by two local writers, YKTP will enter its fourth season with 18,000 loyal users and more than 33,000 regular downloads.

Giving Tuesday

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Instead of focusing on ourselves for Giving Tuesday, we chose to celebrate other local nonprofits. People nominated their favorite local nonprofits and then we awarded $1000 in underwriting to randomly selected winners.

Classics for Kids

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Cincinnati Public Radio’s Classics for Kids program introduces thousands of children to classical music in a fun way through lesson plans, online games, email newsletters for teachers and parents, partnerships with local music organizations, and events.

WBGO Media Fellows

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WBGO Media Fellows is a paid fellowship program that opens the door for a public broadcasting employment experience members of our local community. Each year, two students from Newark are given a “hands on” opportunity to be mentored by our station news team and our Jazz Night in America production team for 8 weeks during the summer. Fellows learn first hand everything from pro tools to podcasting, meeting etiquette to interviewing techniques. They have real time deliverables and are paid a realistic working wage.

Curiosity Club

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KUOW’s Curiosity Club is a nerdy supper club exploring the possibility that great food and compelling storytelling can transform a group of diverse strangers into a community. It’s like a bookless book club for public radio nerds.

Strike a Chord

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Strike a Chord is a campaign that aims to bring awareness to local issues in the New York metro area and connect volunteers with opportunities to make a difference.

Engage ICT: Democracy on Tap (2019 Finalist)

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KMUW’s Engage ICT events are free, monthly panel discussions with local experts that focus on topics that touch Wichita citizens’ daily lives, giving them a chance to directly ask questions and spark civic engagement. Previous topics have included climate change, Medicaid expansion, and education funding.

Breaking Grass performs at a Bluegrass Monday concert.

Bluegrass Monday

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On the fourth Monday night of each month, KASU presents “Bluegrass Monday,” a concert series in its 17th year, bringing professional bluegrass musicians to Paragould, Arkansas, for affordable, family-friendly concerts. Admission is always free. KASU feels presenting these concerts not only promotes its radio broadcasts of bluegrass music, but the concerts also help to promote the culture of the region that includes the nearby Ozark Mountains. All concerts are recorded for broadcast on KASU at a later date.

RadioActive Youth Media

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Now in its 16th year, RadioActive is an award-winning youth journalism and radio storytelling workshop at KUOW. Last year, RadioActive served 900 teenagers at 25 schools and community organizations study journalism, sound recording, editing, interviewing, script writing and speaking on the air. The initiative actively recruit participants who are underserved by high quality arts programs, including incarcerated youth, refugees youth, youth in low-income housing.

Promise of Paradise: Back to the Land Oral Histories of Mendocino County

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“Promise of Paradise” is a sense of place interview series, launched in June 2018 at KZYX, with members of the “Back to the Earth” movement and their children about their lives and experiences of 20th century homesteaders who arrived in Mendocino County, California, as college-educated hippies were streaming away from the cities to rural areas to re-learn ancient homesteading skills and to reject the cultural norms of post-World War II America.

Phenology

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“Phenology” is a program from KAXE/KBXE featuring local student reporting on natural phenomena and the changing seasons. The “Phenology” team works with 15 different schools around the state and both broadcasts and podcasts kids’ nature reports once a week.

Wicked Good Festival

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Today, WERS stands alone as Boston’s home for music discovery. A small but mighty staff of students and professionals carry the torch on the only radio station dedicated to featuring local artists. This is done on a daily basis through conscientious programming, but also through special features like “Wicked Local Wednesday.” In 2018, WERS launched its first (and totally free) Wicked Good Festival on Boston Common featuring a national touring act as well as local favorites.

Understanding 1898: America’s Only Coup D’état

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This web page documents the only known coup d’état in American history. You will find video interviews conducted with Wilmingtonians on the topic of 1898 and what it means in the 21st century, links to WHQR’s related audio coverage, and an interactive map which chronicles the historical events surrounding the coup.

Remembering Flight 232-The Exchange

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This program was remembrance of the valor of those who helped rescue victims of the crash of United Flight 232 in 1989 at the Sioux Gateway Airport. Also, it was a way to remember the 120 people who died in the crash.

Radio Fest

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Radio Fest is a showcase of local classical music in Nashville. For a full day in November, WFCL broadcasts a live performance every hour, on the hour. Leading up to each Radio Fest, the 91Classical team asks listeners to call in and tell them about particular pieces that are special to them and why.

Another Round

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Another Round is a community engagement series that allows Boise Public Radio to get outside of the metro region and into areas of southern and central Idaho and eastern Oregon. Three out of four quarterly events take place outside of Boise. In each, the station learns about topics listeners would like to hear covered more on air. Boise Public Radio partners with a local brewery/restaurant/coffee shop and charge $5. Participants get a stainless steel NPR/BSPR logo’s tumbler with a ticket redeemable for one free beer.