Local that Works
Local that Works spotlights innovative, community-focused media initiatives that expand, engage, diversify, serve local audiences and create civic value. LTW is an annual contest, database, a reporting project, and a webinar series. Sign up for Current’s newsletter to receive updates about the Local that Works competition and webinars.
Local that Works spotlights innovative, community-focused media initiatives that expand, engage, diversify, serve local audiences and create civic value. LTW is an annual contest, database, a reporting project, and a webinar series. Sign up for Current’s newsletter to receive updates about the Local that Works competition and webinars.
Watch the ‘Local That Works’ keynote from PMDMC
Learn about creative local projects from three stations, then enter our contest.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.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.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 ...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.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.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.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.KALW’s ‘The Intersection’ goes deep by staying in one place
The radio show and podcast, a finalist in Current's Local that Works contest, explores a changing San Francisco through the people and ...WGBY community texting program champions early childhood literacy
Text 413 Families brings innovative educational experiences to parents' fingertips.
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