Programs/Content
Watch the ‘Local That Works’ keynote from PMDMC
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Mike Janssen, Digital Editor |
Learn about creative local projects from three stations, then enter our contest.
Local That Works
Current opens its 2019 Local That Works contest
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Julie Drizin, Executive Director |
Tell Current what your station is doing to become more engaging, relevant, sustainable and local, and you could win fame and fortune.
Local That Works
By inviting their kids along, WTMD engages new parents missing out on live music
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“We’re basically raising the next generation of WTMD listeners at the shows,” said Sam Sessa, WTMD’s Baltimore music coordinator.
Local That Works
Milwaukee PBS teams up with newspaper chain to help communities address teen suicide
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“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.
Programs/Content
For smaller stations, WYSO training program offers model for content on a budget
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The station’s Community Voices project has made its programming more diverse while also helping to grow revenue.
Local that Works
North Country project on work is ‘embedded into the life of the station’
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Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor |
The North Country at Work team now produces community events and storytelling evenings.
Local That Works
With AmGrad expansion, PBS Charlotte helps students visualize their dreams
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“I believed that the more we served this community, the more successful we would be,” said PBS Charlotte’s GM.
Programs/Content
Alaska station’s forums ‘break down walls’ between community members
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Tyler Falk, Reporter |
The winner of Current’s Local That Works contest, Alaska Public Media’s “Community in Unity” events tackled topics including racism, immigration and incarceration.
Programs/Content
KALW’s ‘The Intersection’ goes deep by staying in one place
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April Simpson, Former Associate Editor |
The radio show and podcast, a finalist in Current’s Local that Works contest, explores a changing San Francisco through the people and institutions that intersect at street corners.
Programs/Content
WGBY community texting program champions early childhood literacy
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Karissa Waddick, Editorial Intern |
Text 413 Families brings innovative educational experiences to parents’ fingertips.