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.
Organizational changes are first steps on public media’s path toward engagement
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Start by thinking critically about your station’s culture, then take the time to build a staff-wide commitment and approach to engagement that’s custom-built for your community.
Programs/Content
Framed around broad questions, NPR’s ‘Nation Engaged’ built election coverage with strong local focus
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The editorial collaboration tested new approaches for framing news coverage in ways that attract diverse voices and promote the role of local stations.
Programs/Content
Phoenix’s KJZZ to launch mobile production unit that doubles as food truck
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Soundbite is expected to hit metropolitan Phoenix in mid-December.
Programs/Content
Localore’s Frontier of Change creates ‘audio virtual reality’
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The production, based at KNBA in Anchorage, Alaska, recorded village life in remote areas threatened by climate change.
Programs/Content
How Northwest Public Radio turned listeners into collaborators on content
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The station found inspiration in Melody Kramer’s ideas about new models for public media membership.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #74: NPR ditches online comments — should you?
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Can comments work, or are time and money better spent on other forms of engagement?
Programs/Content
The news is served: How newsrooms can connect with communities
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We can serve our neighbors and our world by involving them in the process from start to finish.
Programs/Content
Your local network, the Tribe of ‘A Giant Pool’
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We can see much of a new value proposition for public media in a new pattern that we can all copy and adapt.