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Generation PRX T-Shirts: Wear your radio style |
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Third Grade Audio
poses with profits
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The American economy could take a lesson from the third graders
at North Shore County Day School in Chicago. When "Questions
for Martin Luther King, Jr." was licensed by California station
KVMR, the students found themselves with windfall profits of $1.20.
So, being kind and fair, Third
Grade Audio split their earnings equally: one nickel
each.
We're taking a lesson from Third Grade Audio. With new offerings
this month for teachers, producers and listeners, everybody
wins.
Happy reading & listening,
Jones
Generation PRX Project Director
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Follow the Money
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PRX specials headed your way
Are we partying like it's 1929? With the economy tumbling, what
are you seeing and hearing where you live? PRX is looking for
stories, essays and sound montages about these troubling times -
stories about you, your families, your communities and what impact
the down economy is having on jobs, making ends meet, affording
school and your own sense of the future.
Upcoming youth-produced specials are on the horizon with some of
our favorite collaborators. Details on the way!
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PRX Pointers
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Getting the most out of PRX.org
The PRX help desk is at it again - they're rolling out PRX Pointers
to help users get the most out of the new site. The series includes
helpful illustrations, clear explanations and tips on specific
aspects of PRX.org. Check out Finding Pieces
on the Home Page and Sharing
Pieces. You'll be a PRXpert in no time.
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From the Producer's Chair
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A Q&A with Jenny Asarnow
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Jenny Asarnow
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Jenny
Asarnow has her finger on the pulse. She's produced
three KUOW/GPRX youth radio specials (with a fourth on tap)
and recently became a winner of the MQ2. We asked her to share the
wisdom.
GPRX: You've worked with youth to create several radio specials
- what can you tell us about the process?
JA: There are so many amazing radio pieces being created by
young people around the country. Public radio listeners LOVE these
programs. I always get a flood of positive email after they
air.
GPRX: HUGE congratulations on your recent MQ2 award. What can
you tell us about the proposal? How did working with youth specials
affect the design?
JA: My project is an interactive audio documentary about,
for, and created with, a corner in a Seattle neighborhood that's
going through gentrification (it's also where I live).
I'm using the same skills as a curator and a facilitator that I
developed while I was working on the youth radio
specials.
GPRX: What advice do you have for new producers who want to be
part of the future of radio?
JA: My only advice is to listen, listen, listen and find
radio work you admire and can learn from. And then, make radio you
want to listen to!
Read
the full interview with Jenny on GPRX.
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Tools & Ideas
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Tricks of the trade
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outLoud Radio,
interviewing
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The British Broadcasting Corporation, that titan of all things
journalism, has an excellent, free, online unit on Interviewing
for Radio. From dealing with the unexpected to vox pop
checklists, it's a veritable treasure trove of radio expertise (and
nearly all of the links are working!).
And speaking of treasure troves, have you been to the GPRX
discussion forums
lately? You'll find ruminations on the
best pieces for group listening and call outs for programming,
all right there in the For Teachers
section.
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News & Announcements
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Pulitizer Center, NFCB and Storyborders.org
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Upcoming Date Pegs
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Time marches on
Try some of these upcoming events for inspiration and as a tool to
pitch to stations.
Mar 21 - First day of Spring
April - Poetry Month
Apr 1 - April Fool's Day
Apr 8 - Passover Begins
Apr 12 - Easter
Apr 22 - Earth Day
May 1 - International Worker's Day
May 5 - Cinco de Mayo/Battle of Puebla
May 8 - No Socks
Day
May 10 - Mother's Day
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