Programs/Content
How ‘engaged’ radio journalism helped a community tackle suicide
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Capital Public Radio relied on live events, local experts and media partnerships to examine a taboo topic in California’s rural Amador County.
Programs/Content
Alaska station’s forums ‘break down walls’ between community members
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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
KUOW podcast engages local audience with practical tips for fighting workplace sexism
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Fans of “Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace” “find something in it that resonates with them, makes them feel like they are empowered to walk into work and can change things for the better,” says a co-host.
Quick Takes
More newsrooms receive funding to use GroundSource, Hearken
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The Lenfest Institute announced Tuesday a second round of funding to help newsrooms listen to and build trust with audiences.
Engagement
How a station used ‘deep listening’ events to take on Sacramento’s housing crisis
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Capital Public Radio’s “Story Circles” brought wildly diverse residents face to face to envision a way forward.
Programs/Content
In Milwaukee, a station’s music education program shows power of community partnerships
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As one of public media’s only music-based youth programs, The Music Lab at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee shows how with long-term investments, bold marketing and strong talent, the right partnerships can make community engagement sustainable, scalable and cool.
Programs/Content
KUOW uses speed-dating format to help people understand each other
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Events designed to bridge cultural and political divides have lasting effects on participants.
System/Policy
Learning to listen and acting on what you hear builds foundation for engagement
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As public stations adopt an ethos of engagement, an essential first step is a process of “radical listening” that will define your work as you develop deeper structured connections to your local community.
Programs/Content
Pre and post: Two (of the many) sides to talk-show digital
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When done well, a digital strategy shapes what happens before the microphones are on or turns what happens during the show into something that works in other formats.