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  • This Weekend: Listen for Localore on a Station Near You

    By Jessica Clark / May 17, 2013

    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:

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  • NPR/AIR Announce a New Site for Producers

    By Jessica Clark / May 17, 2013

    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."

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  • Lights! Camera! Localore!

    By Jessica Clark / May 08, 2013

    Wondering how AIR's national production evolved from a blue-sky idea to the ten evocative multimedia projects now animating public stations across the country? Grab a bucket of popcorn and lean back to watch This is Localore.

    Filmmaker Josh Banville directed and edited this half-hour documentary stepping us behind the curtain with the producer-station teams—revealing how they have taken big risks to lead projects that grab the attention of communities across broadcast, digital and street platforms.

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  • When it Rains, it Pours: AIRster Accolades

    By Jessica Clark / May 06, 2013

    Drum roll please! Join all of us behind the curtain at AIR in congratulating all of our station and producer members who have recently won awards:

    2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners

    Producers:
    Todd Melby/AIR/Prairie Public/Zeega, Monica Brady-Myerov, Sandy Hausman, Kenny Malone, Alicia Zuckerman, Dan Grech, Sammy Mack, Trina Sargalski, Rich Halten, Tony Ganzer, Rhonda Miller, Kristin Gourlay, Kelley Libby

    Member organizations: 
    WLRN, KQED, KUT, WBEZ, WUNC, New Hampshire Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, World Radio Switzerland

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  • Updated: Current Series Unpacks How Localore Projects Help Stations Innovate

    By Jessica Clark / April 28, 2013

    Current.orgCurrent—the newspaper of record for the public media sector—has a running series of articles exploring how the Localore's teams are working with partner stations to invent new ways to connect with their communities. Catch up below, and bookmark this post to discover new pieces as they go up.

    May 8: Planet Takeout Offers Menu of Stories
    The Planet Takeout website was designed to emulate the experiences of customers who walk into these neighborhood restaurants to place an order, as well as of the employees working behind the counter. ...The cinema verité-style videography lends a feeling of intimacy to stories that can be experienced in a non-linear way.  

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