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WYSO chosen for national project
Yellow Springs-based WYSO (91.3 FM) is one of just 10 public radio and television stations in the United States chosen for “Localore,” a project to develop new forms of reporting.
The competitive $2 million initiative by Boston-based transmedia association AIR will receive more than $1 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Other stations chosen are: KALW-FM, San Francisco; KCRW-FM, Los Angeles; KQED Radio and Television, San Francisco; KUT-FM, Austin; KVNF-FM, Paonia, Colo.; Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, N.D.; Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis; WBEZ-FM, Chicago, and WGBH Radio and Television, Boston.
WYSO’s part of the project will be produced by Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. They will spend 10 months at the station helming “Re-Invention,” a participatory documentary examining how Miami Valley residents are reinventing themselves in a new and unstable economy.
They will ask residents: “Who was I before the bottom fell out? What happened that changed my life? Who am I becoming, or trying to become now?”
The resulting documentary will incorporate film, radio and on-line segments.
Neenah Ellis, WYSO general manager, said the project will “strengthen our creative capacity, tell the stories of the Miami Valley and demonstrate to others around the nation that local stations can step up to create more vital and expanded services.”
Founded in 1988, AIR is an association of more than 800 producers, journalists, technicians, media entrepreneurs and sound artists in 46 states and 14 countries.
WYSO is licensed to Antioch University.
For more information about Localore, visit http:\airmediaworks.org/localore.
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