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WDET audio and photography storytelling project wins this year’s Local That Works award
The Detroit station’s “Framed” series aims to “reflect the lives of the people we’re here to serve.”
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Get inspired with our huge list of local content and engagement projects
Stations and nonprofit news organizations have submitted more than 200 projects to our Local That Works competitions. See what they’ve been up to and steal their ideas.
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We announce the four finalists in our 2019 Local That Works contest
For the first time, a nonprofit news organization and a statewide public TV collaboration advance to the winner’s round.
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Current opens its 2019 Local That Works contest
Tell Current what your station is doing to become more engaging, relevant, sustainable and local, and you could win fame and fortune.
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By inviting their kids along, WTMD engages new parents missing out on live music
“We’re basically raising the next generation of WTMD listeners at the shows,” said Sam Sessa, WTMD’s Baltimore music coordinator.
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Milwaukee PBS teams up with newspaper chain to help communities address teen suicide
“It makes me really hopeful to see collaborations like this happen because they help us accomplish more than … we’d be able to alone,” says Rory Linnane, lead reporter of “Kids in Crisis” for USA Today Network-Wisconsin.
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For smaller stations, WYSO training program offers model for content on a budget
The station’s Community Voices project has made its programming more diverse while also helping to grow revenue.
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North Country project on work is ‘embedded into the life of the station’
The North Country at Work team now produces community events and storytelling evenings.
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With AmGrad expansion, PBS Charlotte helps students visualize their dreams
“I believed that the more we served this community, the more successful we would be,” said PBS Charlotte’s GM.
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Alaska station’s forums ‘break down walls’ between community members
The winner of Current’s Local That Works contest, Alaska Public Media’s “Community in Unity” events tackled topics including racism, immigration and incarceration.