#CheckYourJudges
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Injustice Watch created a nonpartisan judicial election guide to inform Cook County residents about the 75 people running for judge. To spread the word, we ran a #CheckYourJudges engagement campaign.
After the Assault
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CapRadio’s multi-platform participatory journalism project “After the Assault” explores what survivors experience in the aftermath of sexual violence and during police investigations.
Vote with Confidence: A Guide from the Detroit Documenters
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This step-by-step voting guide by the Detroit Documenters is unlike most others. Instead of telling people who to vote for and why, we’re here to help you find the resources to decide for yourself.
Minnehistories
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Minnehistories are bite-sized videos that share pieces of Minnesota history and allow the audience to reminisce or learn about an unfamiliar event, figure, or place in Minnesota history.
Great Salt Lake Collaborative
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Utah’s historic Great Salt Lake is shrinking. The Great Salt Lake Collaborative’s solutions journalism and community engagement is bringing people to the lake and the lake’s plight to the people.
Mission Metrics
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The Oaklandside was founded on a commitment to listening. This is how we’re living up to that promise.
Recording Inclusivity Initiative
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The Recording Inclusivity Initiative addresses the scarcity of classical music composers from historically excluded communities heard on the radio airwaves across the USA by producing new recordings.
Mass. Election Prep: Become An Informed Voter In 7 Days
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WBUR and El Planeta partnered in 2020 to offer Mass. Election Prep. The award-winning, limited-run newsletter published in English and Spanish provided information on topics related to the election.
WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange (N.I.C.E.)
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N.I.C.E. is a mutual-aid collaborative that builds partnerships with local Philadelphia journalists and media makers to help elevate their community-centered reporting and connect them with each other.
News414
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News414 is a resident-centered project that uses text messages, social media and events to engage underserved audiences. We plug information and accountability gaps in highly segregated Milwaukee.
Uncuffed
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Uncuffed is a podcast and radio series made by people incarcerated in California prisons. KALW producers teach them how to record and edit powerful audio stories about life on the inside. Uncuffed seeks to create emotional, human stories to shift the narrative around incarcerated people and change the criminal justice system.
Sahan Journal
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Sahan Journal, an independent, nonprofit news site in partnership with MPR News, serves the immigrant and refugee populations of Minnesota with professional journalism centered on immigrant lives, voices, and experiences. It has been publishing essential pandemic coverage in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish, in order to be accessible to the three largest immigrant groups in the state.
COVID313
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As Detroit emerged as an early epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, Detroit Public Television (DPTV) became a key media partner in the COVID313 Coalition, a group of grassroots organizations that united to help Detroiters access critical information about services in the area. By producing a weekly town hall that was streamed on Facebook Live, as well as broadcasting segments on our weekly public affairs show One Detroit, DPTV and the COVID313 coalition filled a void in the emergency response system and connected our audience with life-saving services
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.
The Learning Space
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“The Learning Space” is an educational program created by Maine Public in partnership with the Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine. It is geared toward students in grades 3-5 and their teachers, and is intended to help bridge the gap for students without reliable internet access during COVID-19. It aired on Maine Public’s primary television channel and reached more than 180,000 people per episode, or roughly 90 classrooms.
A Parent’s Guide to Public Schools (2019 Finalist)
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A Parent’s Guide to Public Schools is a free magazine-style guide from Voice of San Diego that is distributed to 50,000 families annually. It aids parents in making decisions about their children’s education by providing an overview of every public school’s performance in easy-to-read charts and answering common questions about local public school options.
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.
Framed by WDET (2019 Winner)
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“Framed by WDET” is a multimedia series that integrates photography and audio storytelling to present the story of Detroit’s ethnic and cultural communities on the radio, online, in a photobook, and at pop-up exhibitions in more than 20 art spaces in the Detroit region and beyond. It explores the moments and spaces that Detroiters share with one another through the work of 18 Detroit-based photographers and audio producers.
Battling Opioids (2019 Finalist)
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Pennsylvania Public Media stations WHYY, WITF, WLVT/PBS39, WPSU, WQED, WQLN, WVIA are collaborating to produce educational programming that focuses on the opioid crisis with the goals of increasing awareness, reducing stigma, aiding prevention, and helping people find treatment. This state-wide project included long-form documentaries, online features, educational interstitials, and strong social media support. Battling Opioids helped to direct more than 23,000 calls to the state helpline since the project started.
The Intersection (2018 Finalist)
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The Intersection is a series of hyper-local audio documentaries co-produced by David Boyer and KALW that look at the changing Bay Area of California through physical intersections — street corners — where different histories, motivations, policies, and people meet every day. The show pinpoints the different forces and factors at play there and, over the course of a piece or a season, connects the dots between the past, present, and future.