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Localore, an ongoing project by the Association for Independents in Radio, has supported projects since 2012 that support multimedia collaborations between public broadcasters and independent producers. Learn more about the projects that it has spawned and the future of the initiative, looking ahead to a new round of projects in 2015.
Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | The music world of Austin, Texas, is now being shared with a global audience thanks to Austin Music Map, a website developed by the city’s public radio station, KUT.
Hear Here launched last spring as an experiment testing new ways to collect and distribute hyperlocal stories. About twice a month on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, KALW producers pop into local libraries and set up an impromptu studio.
For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science reporting.
The project solicits questions from listeners about Chicago to investigate on-air.
Sonic Trace seeks to record stories from southern California’s Latino immigrant communities, documenting the many and varied paths they take to get to the City of Angels.
From roughnecks to singing cowboys and itinerant knife dealers, North Dakota’s oil boom has lured thousands to remote areas of the state to find their fortunes, and in the process became a fertile source of stories for an immersive yearlong multimedia reporting project.
From exploring underground tunnels to tracking the evolution of the Chicago accent, Curious City is an unconventional spin on community-based public media reporting.
At a Media Impact Funders event, attendees considered new funding models and new ways to measure the impact of public media’s efforts.
Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.
Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | Two years after its Makers Quest 2.0 project tapped independent producers to stretch the creative boundaries of public radio, the Association of Independents in Radio is launching Localore, a major CPB-backed initiative designed to jump-start new-media experiments at local public broadcasting stations.