This Weekend: Listen for Localore on a Station Near You

Keep those ears peeled—this weekend, two of AIR’s Localore projects will be making national waves.

TI Hear Change

This American Life will feature iSeeChange producer Julia Kumari Drapkin in a show called “Hot in My Backyard.” Learn more here, and tune in.

Drapkin has spent the past year bringing climate change scientists together with residents of Paonia, Colorado to puzzle through the shifting conditions they’re seeing in their own backyards. Get a sense of these sometimes difficult dialogues in Drapkin’s recent video:

NPR/AIR Announce a New Site for Producers

AIR is pleased to invite freelance and station-based producers to an important new resource designed to deliver what's most important to those contributing stories to NPR.

The site is dedicated to Bill Siemering, a long-time AIR member and, as the first program director at NPR, notes AIR Executive Director Sue Schardt, "the source and continuing inspiration of so much of what we create and experience in public radio each day."