Public Radio Puts Our Project in Spotlight
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| Salt Lake City temple at dusk |
Public radio station KCPW in Salt Lake City gave over a live, 20-minute midday interview segment yesterday, June 29, to I, Reporter's newly launched Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project. Blair Feulner, station president and host of the KCPW's Midday Utah segment, interviewed me about the project, which partner Amy Gahran and I launched following a $90,000 News Challenge grant from the Knight Foundation in late May.
The radio interview focused on Boulder's global warming initiative and the journalistic challenges of covering it, as well as the basic ideas behind citizen journalism. Feulner described the project nicely in his intro as a "new way to combine digital journalism and community interaction. ... the web-based project is meant to keep the focus on this single community issue, and add to the dialogue a variety of opinions from many sources, including the public, professionals, and city government. The idea is to go beyond the spotty media coverage important community concerns often get."
