NPR is undertaking a $3 million project to, as a news release calls it "... project to develop in-depth, local coverage on topics critical to communities and the nation...". The money comes from the CPB ($2 million) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($1 million).The release from the three organizations explains:
The two-year pilot will help a dozen stations establish themselves as definitive sources of news on a topic selected by each one as most relevant to its community, such as city politics, the changing economy, healthcare, immigration or education. These online reports will help fill the growing gap in local news offerings.
NPR's President and CEO Vivian Schiller called the project will "... begin to establish an online network that can transform itself into a news powerhouse of unparalleled depth and quality.”
According to the news release, the project will "... allow about a dozen NPR stations throughout the U.S. with established news operations to hire new journalist bloggers. Each will focus exclusively on reporting and aggregating news about a topic relevant to that city, based upon its geography and unique characteristics. Stations will feed their work into NPR’s content management system, where the entire group of participants will have easy access to each others’ work to inform, enrich and add context as they create and present their stories. This common content sharing infrastructure provides a solid platform to support stations’ online publishing needs and to expand the power of the network.
Stations involved in creating the pilot project include: Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland), Northern California Public Broadcasting/KQED (San Francisco), WGBH (Boston) and KPBS (San Diego) – and radio stations: Southern California Public Radio/KPCC (Los Angeles), KALW, (San Francisco), KPLU (Seattle), WAMU (Washington D.C.), WXPN (Philadelphia), Wyoming Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, WNYC (New York) and WBUR (Boston).
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