The past few years have seen new energy and investment in thinking about
what’s next for public media. Projects like the Public Radio Talent
Quest and MQ2 have inspired an eruption of creativity and new ideas,
many of them germinating from brain trusts right here in our own
backyard in Cambridge. Nellie recently wrote about Zeega and the
brilliant innovations being cooked up by the likes of Jesse Shapins,
Kara Oehler and James Burns. They have a partner in crime nearby in Sue
Schardt from AIR (Association of Independents in Radio). In her
leadership of the organization, Sue has put AIR at the forefront of
innovation in storytelling and their new project Localore is just
another example of the kind of vision that AIR is contributing to new
experiments in public media.