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This free AI-ready hyperlocal news service supplements local news coverage by covering beats that typically do not overlap or compete with existing commercial news media, and as long-form stories can be repurposed into multiple unique shorter stories.
How to produce your original news story for KEPW 97.3 Whole Community News
We accept requests from the community and can also help you research, report, and produce news stories. We support text-only, audio, and video production.
We also typically report on boards and commissions, neighborhoods and nonprofits, preparedness and public comment. For example, we have followed local school boards, the city’s Human Rights Commission and its Homelessness and Poverty Work Group; fire, utility, and wastewater districts; labor and renter unions; watersheds; faith communities; active transportation, housing and homelessness; and climate change and economic refugees.
In helping to share public speech, we actively listen to each individual speaker with the greatest respect and then seek to summarize and present their views to the whole community in the best possible light. We edit for brevity and length. Repetition, filler words, non-significant pauses, expletives, and background sounds may be removed, incorrect pronunciations and minor errors corrected, and sequences changed.
In viewing this work as a collaboration between the subject and the producer, we often share a rough cut and ask community members to recommend changes. Our documentarians seek to share the latest public discourse with depth and context, summarizing a typical 60-minute or 90-minute meeting with eight to 10 minutes of audio.
Our approach, guided by the SPJ Code of Ethics, Associated Press Stylebook, and KEPW-Whole Community News Style Guide, has been characterized as community journalism, public journalism, civic journalism, solutions journalism, and others. This project was honored to receive a Regional Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).
We are always looking for neighbors to serve as correspondents and share local neighborhood news. We will recognize your volunteer efforts with exchanges in the time bank. Contact: JohnQ@PublicNewspapers.org or phone (541) 632-3692.
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Thank you very much for your contributions to KEPW – Whole Community News and other local nonprofit news organizations.
This hyperlocal news service is part of a preparedness model to address the decline of local news and the spread of news deserts. It is meant to reduce barriers to entry for multiple microbusiness newspaper enterprises and associated street newspaper vendor programs. Our Whole Community Support program also includes the Whole Community Time Bank; the Exercise and Evaluation program; and the Incident Command System (ICS) For Neighbors.
KEPW 97.3 Whole Community News is a special project sponsored by the Corporation for Public Community Newspapers. The nonprofit board of directors selects special projects each year at the annual meeting on Sept. 23.
See also: What’s my watershed?
