03 Apr 4/24/13 Localore

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Localore_LoJoin us for a presentation and discussion with transmedia producers Todd Melby, Julia Kumari-Drapkin, and Ken Eklund, 3 of the 12 producers who led AIR’s nation-wide Localore initiative. They will discuss their projects and experiences using social media, crowdsourcing, games and other methods of working with communities to tell stories

Localore is a public media initiative produced by Boston-based AIR, Inc., incubating “full spectrum” media projects at 10 radio and television stations across the U.S. designed to tell stories using the web, traditional broadcast formats, and “street” media — public events, installations, and mobile storytelling platforms. Collectively, AIR’s Localore team has birthed inspiring new immersive documentary formats and laid down new tracks for public media stations looking to extend their service more deeply into their local communities.

Todd Melby
Prairie Public Broadcasting, North Dakota

Black Gold Boom explores the lives of the workers of North Dakota’s oil rush through a website, audio content, and an interactive documentary, created in partnership with online storytelling platform Zeega.

Julia Kumari-Drapkin
KVNF, Paonia, CO

Kumari-Drapkin’s crowdsourced project iSeeChange tackles climate change, using social media to engage a rural community in environmental reporting.

Ken Eklund
Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN

Eklund will present his “authentic fiction” Ed Zed Omega, which explored the lives of seven teenagers who chose to drop out of high school through an interactive website, using the framework of a game.