Programs/Content
Localore project Black Gold Boom gets funding for 2014 documentary, transmedia work
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The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom’s effects on Native tribes.
Tech
Transom, Curious City to develop new technology tools with Knight aid
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Each grantee will receive up to $50,000 to support the creation of experimental tools intended to improve storytelling and reporting
Localore
Planet Takeout offers menu of stories
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Writer and documentarian Val Wang became fascinated with Chinese takeouts 10 years ago, when she relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y., after living in China.
Programs/Content
Austin Music Map: mapping the places where ‘music is made all the time’
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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.
Programs/Content
New metasite showcases Localore projects
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The Association of Independents in Radio will launch a metasite April 22 that combines its 10 Localore multimedia projects on a single interactive platform, showcasing the results of a yearlong production to develop broadcast and web content in cities across the United States. The website uses a map of the country to direct users to content that public media audiences first discovered on local stations. Designer Drew Schorno chose the map “as a way of representing the U.S. experience” of Localore, he said. A half-hour documentary, This Is Localore, will accompany the launch of the metasite, which will be unveiled during an April 22 event at the Brattle Theater in Boston. Producers from each of the Localore projects will join Sue Schardt, AIR executive director, and Noland Walker, Localore executive editor, in a Q&A session moderated by PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan.
Education/Engagement
Storytelling ‘pop-up’ Hear Here builds bridge from KALW to Oakland
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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.
Programs/Content
Pubradio journalist wants western Colorado to ‘See Change’
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For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science reporting.
Association of Independents in Radio
New Chicago pubTV program to include segment produced by Localore project
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The project solicits questions from listeners about Chicago to investigate on-air.
Programs/Content
Thinking inside the bubble: KCRW’s Sonic Trace explores roots of L.A. Latinos
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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.
Programs/Content
Big oil, big changes spotlighted in Black Gold Boom
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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.
Programs/Content
WBEZ’s Curious City brings its inquisitive audience into the reporting action
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From exploring underground tunnels to tracking the evolution of the Chicago accent, Curious City is an unconventional spin on community-based public media reporting.
System/Policy
Reimagining public media outside of its ‘ever-shrinking box’
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At a Media Impact Funders event, attendees considered new funding models and new ways to measure the impact of public media’s efforts.
AIR
Localore backs crowdsourcing, collaborative doc projects
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The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.
Localore
Localore: matchmaker for innovation
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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.