The Story So Far...

Follow the buzz about AIR's Localore project as it builds here

WATCH:

This is Localore travels across the country in spring 2013 for a half-hour look at how the Localore producers transformed public media:

Localore: The Story So Far provides a snapshot of the Localore initiative at its midway point in 2012

COVERAGE

• 5/19/13—"Sonic Trace" Tracks Latino Roots Via Sound, Huffington Post Latino Voices
• 5/13/13—Make More,Talk Less, Tell Better Stories: All in a Day's Work at StoriesLab, NAMAC blog
• 5/8/13—Planet Takeout Offers Menu of Stories, Current
• 5/713—You and Me This Morning, WCIU
• 5/3/13—In Rotation, The Chicago Reader
• 5/3/13—Surrounded By Wolves in a North Dakota Oil Town, Marketplace
• 4/26/13—New Voices in Indie New Media, Counterpunch
• 4/25/13—TFI Interactive 2013 on Storify
• 4/24/13—Lay a Strong Foundation: Lessons from WYSO's Localore Project, Reinvention Stories, National Center for Media Engagement blog
• 4/24/13—Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Conference, Filmmaker Magazine
• 4/23/13—Highlights from TFI Interactive, The Ripple Effect/Harmony Institute
• 4/22/13—Localore's "New Media Life Forms," Columbia Journalism Review
• 4/22/13—Lunchtime Links: Radio Group's "Localore" Tech Embrace, Associations Now
• 4/12/13—Hello, Localore! ONA Issues
• 4/11/13—Web Documentary Asks: How Does a City Reinvent Itself? Business Beat, KBAI-FM
• 4/11/13—Localore Unveils Site With Projects, PRPD News for Programmers
• 4/11/13—iSeeChange Project Featured by AIR and at Tribeca, KVNF.org
• 4/10/13—Go Outside: New Visions for Community Engagement From AIR's Localore, National Center for Media Engagement site
• 4/10/13—New Metasite Showcases Localore Projects, Current
• 4/5/13—The Kitchen Sisters Reveal the Power of Collaborative Production Via Localore's The Making Of..., National Center for Media Engagement blog
• 4/4/13/—Oilfield Cowboy Visits Williston, The Dickinson Press
• 4/2/13—Reinventing Daytonians, Dayton Most Metro
• 3/28/13—Peer Webinar Annoucement—Go Outside: New Visions for Community Engagement from AIR's Localore, National Center for Media Engagement site
• 3/28/13—MEGAPOLIS Celebrates Localore: The After Party, MEGAPOLIS site
• 3/20/13—MacArthur Grants Go to Nine Docs Including Localore and Kartemquin Projects, Current
• 3/18/13—Celebrate Digital Storytelling at TFI INTERACTIVE at the 2013 Festival, Tribeca Film Festival blog
• 3/18/13—Tracing Latino Roots Via Sound, Tell Me More
• 3/14/13—A Storytelling "Pop-Up" Builds Bridge from KALW to Oakland, Current
• 3/9/13—Oil-Boom Sprawl Swallows a North Dakota City, Marketplace
• 3/8/13—Girls of Conjunto, Latino USA
• 3/8/13—Without a SXSW Music Badge? Try the Austin Music Map, Yahoo! Music
• 3/7/13—WYSO's Reinvention Stories—Dayton Resilience, On Air and Web, Yellow Springs News
• 3/7/13—The New Digital Storytelling Series: Zeega, Filmmaker Magazine
• 3/7/13—iSeeChange Turns Citizens Into Climate Reporters, Earthzine
• 3/6/13—Alpha, Beta, Zeega, Harvard Gazette
• 3/5/13—A Chat With the Zeega Team As its First Collaborations With Radio Producers Go Online, POV Blog
• 3/2/13—Reinventing Dayton on the Web, Dayton Daily News
• 3/1/13—Transformative Moments: Sonic Trace Talks to Latin American Immigrants in LA, NEA Arts
• 2/26/13—Two Filmmakers Reinvent Their Approach for "Reinvention Stories," a Web Documentary, POV Blog
• 2/22/13—KUTX: A Jukebox Full of Stories, Tribeza
• 2/21/13—MapJam w/ Conjunto Los Pinkys, The Austin Chronicle
• 2/20/13—New Online Discussions on Good and Not-So-Good Climate Reporting, The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
• 2/18/13—Reinvention Stories: Welcome to a City of Inventors and Reinventors, Notes From the Creative Side: The Dayton Region and Beyond 
• 2/14/13—Nick Gage Chicago Anthem: Musician's New Song Details What's Unique to the Windy City, Huffington Post Chicago
• 2/13/13—New Chicago PubTV Program to Include Segment Produced by Localore Project, Current
• 2/13/13—Curious City, HowSound
• 2/11/13—A Digital Farmer's Almanac—How Communities Track "Microchanges" in Climate, New America Media
• 2/11/13—Three Insights for Stations from AIR's iSeeChange Crowdsourced Reporting Project, National Center for Media Engagement Blog 
• 2/4/13—How ABC Veteran Bury is Keeping Himself "In the Loop," TimeOut Chicago
• 1/31/13—Journalist Documents "Black Gold" Oil Boom in N.D., Minnesota Public Radio
• 1/29/13—Climate Change Up Close, Colorado Public Radio 
• 1/28/13—AIR and ITVS Partner Up for Next Step in Pubmedia Innovation, Beyond the Box blog, ITVS
• 1/25/13—Another Day, Another New Media Platform, Turnstyle
• 1/24/13—Localore Projects Secure Funding for Second Year, With ITVS Signing On, Current
• 1/22/13—Storytelling With Social Audio: How AIR Cultivates New Media Life Forms (reprint), MediaShift IdeaLab
• 1/22/13—The Making of...Zeega Launch Party, Zeega via Storify
• 1/21/13—Preview: Explore Interactive Storytelling With KUT's Austin Music Map, SXTXState
• 1/17/13—Storytelling With Social Audio: How AIR Cultivates New Media Life Forms, The SoundCloudBlog
• 1/16/13—Rough Ride and the Potential for Innovation in Local Public Media, Nieman Journalism Lab
• 1/14/13—Gas & Oil Exploration in Kansas, Up To Date
• 1/13/13—Todd Melby and the Stories of Western North Dakota's Oil Boom, The Arts Partnership
• 1/12/13—Steve Poitras, 101.9 Talk FM
• 1/10/13—Rough Ride excerpt, PBS NewsHour
• 1/9/13—Day Three: Jobs in America, APM's The Story
• 1/8/13—Black Gold Boom & Rough Ride, Sonic Trace blog
• 1/8/13—Not Everyone in Oil-Boom Country Finds What They Want, APM's Marketplace
• 1/7/13—"Black Gold Boom" Brings New Life to North Dakota, NPR's Tell Me More
• 1/4/13—Being Curious is a Good Thing, Scientific Chicago
• 12/20/12—More Lessons from Ed Zed Omega—Get Collaborative, Take Risks, Be Nimble, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 12/18/12—Learning from Ed Zed Omega: TPT's Leap Into "Authentic Fiction" | Part I, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 12/18/12—Big Oil, Big Changes Spotlighted in "Black Gold Boom", Current
• 12/18/12—Learning from Ed Zed Omega: TPT's Leap Into "Authentic Fiction" | Part I, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 12/15/12—Austin Remixed Explores the Sounds of Austin with Dana Falconberry, DJ Orión & More, CultureMap Austin
• 12/14/12—Half Notes, The Austin Chronicle
• 12/5/12—Austin Music Map Explores the Blues Roots — and Changing Culture — of the East Side, CultureMap Austin
• 12/12/12—Austin Music Map Visits Esquina Tango's Vibrant and Diverse Community of Music and Dance, CultureMap Austin
• 12/12/12—Exploring Chicago’s Coast, Scribd
• 12/7/12—Half Notes, The Austin Chronicle
• 12/13/12—Signs of a "Magical Moment" Bullishness...But Will It Last? Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media
• 12/11/12—Seeing Opportunity in North Dakota's Oil Boom, Marketplace
• 12/5/12—Oil Boom Family is Cramped But Together, Marketplace
• 12/4/12—The Oil Boom: Born to Be a Roughneck, Marketplace
• 12/4/12—Make Your Mark on Austin's Music Map, NPR's Tell Me More
• 11/28/12—The Zeega Revolution: Remake the Internet! iDocs
• 11/27/12—What's Your Chicago Curiousity? CivicSource blog, UIC Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement
• 11/26/12—Thingies: a Rural Arts Roundup, Oil Boom Stories, etc., The Arts Partnership
• 11/26/12—Why You Don't Put Ketchup on Chicago Hot Dogs, Chicagoist
• 11/23/12—Changing Radio, One Story at a Time, ABC Open
• 11/21/12—The Oil Boom: Making a Living Off the Workers, Marketplace
• 11/20/12—A North Dakota Oil Worker: "I miss my family," Marketplace
• 11/19/12—"Fight Night" in An Oil Boom Town, Marketplace
• 11/16/12—WBEZ's Curious City Brings Its Inquisitive Audience Into the Reporting Action, Current
• 11/13/12—Mapping Sounds in the Live Music Capital of the World, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 11/10/12—A-List: Austin Music Map Launch Party, Austin American Statesman
• 11/10/12—Photos: Austin Music Map Launch Party, Do512
• 11/10/12—Preview: Austin Music Map Launch Party Featuring Susan Torres & The Squeezebox Mafia, Austin Vida
• 11/9/12—Get a Sneak Peek at the Soon-to-Launch Austin Music Map this Weekend at the ND, CultureMap Austin
• 11/2/12—Carrying the Lost With You on the Day of the Dead, All Things Considered
• 11/2/12—With Young Actors, Localore's Interactive Ed Zed Omega Critiques Education System, Current
• 11/1/12—Here, Public Media: Informs, Connects, Empowers, Extends, National Center for Media Engagement
• 10/29/12—Chicago Talk, Gapers Block
• 10/26/12—Chicaaahgo: Parsing the Windy City Accent, Curbed Chicago
• 10/24/12—Question Answered: How Do they Clean "The Bean"? Huffington Post Chicago
• 10/23/12—How Do They Clean the Bean (Cloud Gate) in Chicago's Millennium Park?, Doobybrain.com
• 10/19/12—Local Filmmakers Tapped by Sundance, WDTN.com
• 10/17/12—Top 10 Live Music Venues in Austin, The Guardian
• 10/17/12—How Libraries Help Hear Here Surface Stories Beyond the Headlines, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 10/16/12—Five Ways Los Angeles is Getting More Awesome, Forbes
• 10/11/2—Curious City Comics, The Illustrated Press
• 10/4/12—Innovative Journalism Linking Backyard Observations With Climate Science, Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media
• 10/3/12—Ken Eklund on Crowdsourcing the Future of Education With Games, Games for Change blog
• 10/1/12—Documenting Chinese Takeout All Over the Planet, Jook Time
• 9/29/12—The Economics Behind the Ice Cream Man, Marketplace
• 9/28/12—Sue Schardt of AIR Extols Storytelling Genre, Current.org
• 9/28/12—Radio Show Focuses on JP Chinese Takeout, Jamaica Plain Gazette
• 9/27/12—Storytelling 3.0, Community Uses of Co-Creative Media
• 9/26/12—Public Media Reinvents Itself With "Full Spectrum" Storytelling, PBS MediaShift
• 9/24/12—Talk at Ten Interview: Ken Eklund, Marfa Public Radio
• 9/24/12—Radio Show Leads to Campus Invite for Aspiring Chef-Pharmacist, Age 10, UCSF School of Pharmacy 
• 9/21/12—Hear Here: Serendipity on the Airwaves, KALW
• 9/19/12—A Huge Dollop of Optimistic Foolishness, StoryForward Podcast
• 9/18/12—3 Tips for Conjuring "Free Magic" from WBEZ's Localore Project Curious City, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 9/18/12—Transom Manifesto: The Kitchen Sisters, Transom.org
• 9/13/12—Ed Zed Omegas: High School Dropouts Band Together to Learn, It's About Learning
• 9/11/2—City Life Snapshot: Music in Austin, Texas, All Things Considered
• 9/9/12—Via @HearHearRadio: Regina Tolbert—Physician's Assistant, Working Now
• 9/8/12—Textbook Turmoil, Uncollege
• 9/7/12—Black Gold Boom, KFAI Morning Show
• 9/6/12—Make it or Break it on a Drilling Rig, and Working on Drilling Rig—A Family Affair, Williston Wire
• 9/2/12—How the City of Chicago Determines What Bus Route to Cut, Doobybrain.com
• 8/30/12 – The Science of Cutting Bus Routes in Chicago, Transportation Nation
• 8/29/12—Wizards and the CDC: Collaborative Storytelling Towards Change, Spare Change
• 8/24/12—New Food Truck Rules May Hurt Ice Cream Trucks, Chicagoist
• 8/24/12—Controversial Food Truck Ordinance Also Regulates Chicago Ice Cream Trucks, Huffington Post
  (Links to a follow-up story based on this Curious City investigation) 
• 8/22/12—Ed Zed Omega, Lab.connections
• 8/21/12—KCRW’S "Sonic Trace": A Radio Show with Visual Panache, TurnstyleNews.com
• 8/21/12—Back to School. Or Not? TPT Labs
• 8/21/12—Ed Zed Omega: The Future of Education/Documentaries, Maggie Ryan Sandford
• 8/21/12—Reinventing Education for the Disaffected With Ed Zed Omega, Wired.com
• 8/17/12—Crowdsourcing Thoughts on the Future of Education, Will Play Games For Change
• 8/17/12—Ed Zed Omega: A Serious Game Visualizing New Approaches to Education, Alternate Reality Gaming Network
• 8/16/12—How Localore & KCRW are Kickstarting Cross-Border Reporting With Sonic Trace, National Center for Media Engagement Blog
• 8/9/12—KCRW's Immigrant Radio Project Launches, EchoPark-SliverLakePatch
• 8/9/12—Tonight at Guelaguetza: Free Oaxacan Bites for KCRW's Sonic Trace, LA Weekly
• 8/8/12—Morton Salt production in Chicago, Doobybrain.com
• 8/8/12—Because it Snows Here, Gaper's Block 
• 8/8/12—Hearing from Here to There, East Bay Express
• 8/7/12—La Burbuja, Los Angeles, I'm Yours
• 8/7/12—Energy Boom in West Creating Jobs and Growth, But Changing Way of Life, PBS NewsHour
• 8/7/12—Hear Here Story Slam-Wich, Examiner.com
• 8/7/12—The (Authentically Fictional) Future of Education, Center for the Future of Museums
• 8/4/12—Awesome L.A. Loves "La Burbuja," The Awesome Foundation
• 8/1/12 – The Kennedy Expressway’s reversible lanes, Doobybrain.com
• 8/1/12—La Burbuja ("the Bubble") Wins Sonic Trace Design Challenge, AIA, California Council
• 7/27/12—Fight Night in Crude Country, American Student Radio 
• 7/26/12—Behind the Scenes at Guelaguetza, LA Observed
• 7/25/12—More from the Oil Boom, The Areavoices Community
• 7/24/12—City Life Snapshot: Bryan Johnson of N.D., NPR's All Things Considered
• 7/23/12—Austin Music Map: Sharing Stories from the Underbelly of Austin's Music Scene, CultureMap Austin
• 7/23/12—Sonic Trace: "La Burbuja" Brings Radio to Your Backyard, Which Way, LA?
• 7/22/12—Photos of Hear Here Booth at the Sunday Streets Festival (scroll down for slideshow), SFGate
• 7/18/12—City Life Snapshot: A.J. Auto Accessories, All Things Considered
• 7/17/12 – How to get Chicagoans to Stop for Pedestrians?, Transportation Nation
• 7/17/12—Join Planet Takeout's Scavenger Hunt, JamaicaPlain Patch
• 7/17/12—Talk at Ten: Delaney Hall, Marfa Public Radio
• 7/16/12—Silverhacks Roundup: Black Gold Boom, Living Docs
• 7/9/12—When Mimes Advocate Stopping at Crosswalks, You Listen, Chicagoist and Group of mimes spotted this morning, EveryBlock Chicago
• 7/6/12—La Burbjua is a Rolling Recording Studio That Gathers Stories Instead of Moss, Inhabitant.com
• 7/3/12—City Life Snapshot: Oakland Bus Driver, All Things Considered
• 6/30/12—Todd Melby interview on Prairie Pulse, Prairie Public Broadcasting
• 6/22/12—A Storytelling Renaissance in the Digital Age, Library Foundation of Los Angeles
• 6/22/12—Hear Here: where we've been, KALW.org
• 6/21/12—La Burbuja: A Sound Booth for Sonic Trace, KCRW's DnA: Design & Architecture
• 6/16/12—A Cake-Off, Paper Gone Wild, Sonic Trace; It's All at the LA Design Festival and Dwell on Design, KCRW's DnA: Design & Architecture
• 6/14/12—Documentary Series Looks to Capture Stories About Neighborhood Chinese Takeouts, Boston.com
• 6/13/12—Curious City debuts. First assignment: Al Capone's tunnels, WBEZ.org
• 6/8/12—Chinese Takeout: A Story in Every Box, JamaicaPlainPatch
• 6/8/12—Sonic Trace, Object Guerilla
• 6/1/12—Last Chance to Make a Sonic Trace, The Architect's Newspaper blog
• 5/24/12—Learn the Chinese Theater's Secrets, Sound Booth Design Comp, Curbed Los Angeles 
• 5/24/12—The Evolution of Curious City, WBEZ.org
• 5/23/12—Hear Here on hand at San Francisco Public Library, Radio Survivor
• 5/18/12—New Media Project Describes Oil Country, One Story at a Time, Prairie Independent
• 5/17/12—North Dakota's Oil Boom and Oil Boom: Is North Dakota traffic worse than Los Angeles? The Daily Circuit, MPRNews 
• 5/15/12—Discussing the Sonic Trace sound booth competition on KCRW show Design and Architecture 
• 5/15/12—Event announcement, Hear Here: A Night of Storytelling, SFGate
• 5/8/12—How the Indie Audio Community is Transforming Storytelling, PBS MediaShift 
• 5/8/12—Announcing the 2012 Demo Spotlight Featured Games, Games for Change blog
• 5/5/12—Coverage of Planet Takeout at a WGBH event in the Chinese-language press: World Journal, Sing Tao Daily, and Sampan
• 5/6/12—iSee Change: Spring Sprung a Tad Fast, KUNC.org
• 5/1/12—Casting Call: Seeking Actors to Play Teens Online, Minnesota Playlist
• 4/19/12—Localore, Now on Facebook, Current
• 4/11/12—Notes from the Boom, Big American Night
• 3/22/12—Independent Radio Gathering to Spur New Ideas, Radio World
• 3/19/12—Reporting on the Oil Boom, KXNews
• 2/29/12—Public Radio Producer Delaney Hall on the Austin Music Map, Our Conjunto Scene, and Coming Back Home, Austinist
• 2/23/12—WYSO Gets Localore Grant,Yellow Springs News
• 2/6/12—Local Radio Station in Elite Group, Dayton Daily News
• 2/3/12—Localore: Producer-Driven Innovation at Stations, Integrated Media Association
• 2/3/12—Charlie Rose, Tom Cruise, and the Merits of Community, Mequoda Daily
• 2/1/12—Coming this Summer, KUT Unveils Austin Music Map, Austinist
• 1/31/12—KCRW, KQED Part of Innovative Localore Mix, Fishbowl LA
• 1/31/12—WYSO Chosen for National Project, Dayton Daily News
• 1/30/12—Localore Winners Gear up to Transform Public Media, PBS MediaShift
• 1/30/12—AIR Names 10 Winners for Localore, its $2 Million Initiative to Shake up Public Media, Nieman Journalism Lab
• 1/30/12—Localore Backs Crowdsourcing, Collaborative Doc Projects, Current
• 1/12/12—KRTS a Finalist in a National Competition, Big Bend Now
• 1/11/12—Engagement News: Good pitch, Localore's station runway and more, National Center for Media Engagement blog
• 11/18/11—Experiments in Engagement: Localore, LEF Foundation Blog
• 11/18/11—Public Media Innovation Roundup, Integrated Media Association
• 10/31/11—Public Radio Gears Up for Hyperlocal News Innovation, StreetFight
• 9/28/11—Public Radio Stations Make Space for Innovation at PRPC, PBS MediaShift
• 9/27/11—Localore Aims to Shake Up Public Media, Pairing Producers with "Incubators" Across the Country, Nieman Journalism Lab
• 9/19/11—Localore: Matchmaker for Innovation, Current

 SOCIAL MEDIA

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• Embed the Station Runway on your own site
• Watch AIR's videos and webinars on Vimeo
• Storified: see notable tweets about Localore's launch and the announcement of the winners.
• CoverItLive—Re-live Localore's September 22 launch event

RELEASES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 4/10/13—AIR <> LOCALORE.NET <> LIFT-OFF!
• 1/23/12—AIR and ITVS Partner Up to Double Down on Public Media Innovation
• 9/17/12—Public Media Reaches for More Americans
• 3/20/11—AIR’s Public Media Lab to Convene, Inspire Localore Collaborative Teams
• 1/30/11—AIR Names Ten to Transform Public Media
• 12/19/11—AIR Opens a New Public Media Frontier
• 12/14/11—Localore Attracts New Breed of Producers: Skilled Adaptors
• 11/1/11—AIR Taps Zeega to Further Catalyze Public Media
• 10/19/11—The Next Big Thing: Schardt on Station-Level Innovation
• 9/27/11—Public Media Steps up for Localore
• 9/22/11—The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Announces Funding to Enhance Public Media's Digital Journalism Capacity
• 9/15/11—AIR's Localore Taps Public Media Ingenuity 
• 9/1/11—AIR Prepares to Push Public Media's Envelope