Localore
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.
Austin Music Map: mapping the places where ‘music is made all the time’
The music world of Austin, Texas, is now being shared with a global audience thanks to Austin Music Map, a website developed ...Storytelling ‘pop-up’ Hear Here builds bridge from KALW to Oakland
Hear Here launched last spring as an experiment testing new ways to collect and distribute hyperlocal stories. About twice a month on ...Pubradio journalist wants western Colorado to ‘See Change’
For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science ...New Chicago pubTV program to include segment produced by Localore project
The project solicits questions from listeners about Chicago to investigate on-air.Thinking inside the bubble: KCRW’s Sonic Trace explores roots of L.A. Latinos
Sonic Trace seeks to record stories from southern California’s Latino immigrant communities, documenting the many and varied paths they take to get ...Big oil, big changes spotlighted in Black Gold Boom
From roughnecks to singing cowboys and itinerant knife dealers, North Dakota’s oil boom has lured thousands to remote areas of the state ...WBEZ’s Curious City brings its inquisitive audience into the reporting action
From exploring underground tunnels to tracking the evolution of the Chicago accent, Curious City is an unconventional spin on community-based public media ...Reimagining public media outside of its ‘ever-shrinking box’
At a Media Impact Funders event, attendees considered new funding models and new ways to measure the impact of public media’s efforts.Localore backs crowdsourcing, collaborative doc projects
The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.Localore: matchmaker for innovation
Two years after its Makers Quest 2.0 project tapped independent producers to stretch the creative boundaries of public radio, the Association of ...
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