Zeega

It's just around the corner. The Kitchen Sisters' extravaganza at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates the creative culture across the region. Next Thursday and Friday, May 30-31, dozens of makers will converge as part of The Making Of…. cheese, surfboards, hot rods, a story…

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.

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

Early reviews of Localore.net have begun rolling in: fantastic transmedia voyages...very cool...beautiful...the new Localore site's going to blow your top.

Don't miss a chance to see AIR's revolutionary national production for yourself. Starting Saturday, Localore producers will hit the road to share what they've created and learned:

On April 22, AIR will present the full scope of its national Localore production with the launch of a new metasite and a public screening at Boston’s Brattle Theatre.

AIR's national Localore production team flocks to the east coast in April for a series of important events. We hope you'll come meet the producers and stations behind the revolutionary work being launched across the country.

AIR is pleased at today's announcement from Matter that Zeega will have the opportunity to further develop its technology platform, which promises to put multimedia storytelling into the hands of producers in new and exciting ways. We see the Zeega player at work in a number of our recent Localore projects, including Reinvention Stories, Rough Ride and Austin Music Map. Working as our technology partner, the Zeega team—Kara Oehler, James Burns, Jesse Shapins and Lindsey Wagner—helped to guide and inspire our production team working across the country.

Growing up in Dayton, "The neighborhood is what saved me," says Carol Coffey, "because I had this front door I could go out." To escape a home roiled by drinking and fighting, she just kept going—first to a machine shop job, and then to married life in the suburbs—but never quite felt like she fit in. Drawn back in after a friend brought her to a music festival, Carol now lives in the historic South Park neighborhood. "There was so much more life in the city than there was in suburbia," she says.

"You want me to go where?" That's what Localore producer Julia Kumari Drapkin said when AIR matched her with a small station in Paonia, Colorado to pilot her concept for crowdsourced multimedia climate reporting. But this week, with the launch of her groundbreaking interactive site, she writes in the latest AIRblast, "I realized it was the best 'change decision' I ever made.