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WYSO among 10 radio, TV stations chosen for national reporting project.

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By Terry Morris, Staff Writer Updated 7:37 AM Monday, February 6, 2012

YELLOW SPRINGS — WYSO (91.3 FM) in Yellow Springs is one of just 10 public radio and television stations in the United States that have been chosen for “Localore,” a project to develop new forms of reporting.

The competitive $2 million initiative by Boston-based media association AIR will receive more than $1 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Other stations chosen are: KALW-FM, San Francisco; KCRW-FM, Los Angeles; KQED Radio and Television, San Francisco; KUT-FM, Austin; KVNF-FM, Paonia, Colo.; Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, N.D.; Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis; WBEZ-FM; Chicago, and WGBH Radio and Television, Boston.

WYSO’s part of the project will be produced by Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. They will spend 10 months at the station helming “Re-Invention,” a documentary using film, radio and on-line segments that examines how Miami Valley residents are reinventing themselves in a new and unstable economy.

Neenah Ellis, WYSO general manager, said the project will “strengthen our creative capacity, tell the stories of the Miami Valley and demonstrate to others around the nation that local stations can step up to create more vital and expanded services.”

According to Bognar, who like Reichert is an award-winning filmmaker, “We’ve seen so many friends and neighbors go through the profound challenge of losing a career, a workplace, a factory and the community that comes with all that. We’ve seen so many people go through the struggles of reinventing themselves, becoming someone new. These are stories the rest of America should hear.”

How the public will be involved “hasn’t been worked out yet. But we will get the word out about that, starting in about two months.”

For more information about Localore, go online to: airmediaworks.org/localore.

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