Idea Lab

Zeega + Localore = Innovative Local Storytelling for Public Media

by Kara Oehler
2011 Knight News Challenge Winner

Last week, I sat in a conference room in Dorchester, Mass., with some of the great minds of public media to recommend which 10 producers and public media stations should be supported for year-long projects to transform the industry. Localore is a new $2 million national competition produced by the Boston-based Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), with $1 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to catalyze producer-led innovation teams at local stations. Here at Zeega, this is particularly exciting because we'll be teaming up with several of the winners as creative technology partners. (For more info...

• January 26, 2012
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At WFMU's Radiovision Festival, Zeega Hacks the Future of Radio

by Kara Oehler
2011 Knight News Challenge Winner

WFMU is putting on a festival Oct. 28-30 to celebrate and probe radio's future. This gathering of folks brings together the medium's fans, tinkerers, futurists and broadcasters to talk about what might happen next. The opening night of the WFMU Radiovision Festival, featuring radio legend Joe Frank, sold out in a matter of days, but there's still room during the bulk of the festival on Saturday and Sunday. Participants will hear from a day of talks featuring radio host Tom Scharpling, comedian Marc Maron, Ira Glass of "This American Life," poet Kenneth Goldsmith, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, DJ /rupture, journalist and...

• October 28, 2011
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Zeega Enables Communities to Create Interactive Documentaries, New Forms of Storytelling

by Kara Oehler
2011 Knight News Challenge Winner

We at Zeega want to enable anyone to create interactive documentaries and invent new forms of storytelling. For inspiration, we've looked to a figure who challenged the documentary form right when radio and film were being invented a century ago: Dziga Vertov. Best known for the remarkable film "Man with a Movie Camera," Vertov also created the first newsreel program in Russia, each episode a new experiment. This was a time when people were thinking about displaying news and telling stories in totally new forms, like rolling out a camera on a horse and buggy in the town center and...

• August 24, 2011
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