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In culmination of its work over the last year, the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered a report on June 9, 2011 addressing the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an information and communications renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical information about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a staff-level working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the information needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. Read the Report Download the Report Related Material http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities#read

Hi Tom, The legend is available on both maps. On the Public Information Map, click the Legend button (third icon in from the left). On the Local Impact Map, click the Legend button (second in from the left). You can get the date and time of the incident by clicking any of the elements on the map. For example, if you click the fire icon on the Public Information Map, you get information about when the fire started and a report about the last time that data was updated. The data is updated on a regular basis by the various federal agencies we're pulling data from. As soon as they update their data, it is pulled into our map. The Public Information Map is currently zoomed into Idyllwild, CA, but if you zoom out, you can see other fires across the country. You can actually customize the map to focus on a different fire by panning and zooming to your area of choice and then clicking the Link button (last on the right) to generate a new customized link and embed code. Thanks for your interest. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Robby

"Localism emphasis poses risk But stations see value in filling news vacuum Published on Current.org, September 17, 2013 Analysis by Mark Fuerst Print This Page Of all the complex and potentially fateful decisions faced by public radio program directors as they navigate the emergence of multiplatform distribution, one of the most significant is the drive to "go local" and produce more local programs, especially news and information. This push signals a strategic shift for public radio, with potentially enormous consequences for growth or decline. Audience 2010, one of a series of landmark research reports on programming trends published in the previous decade, reported that much of the credit for the growth of public radio listenership could be traced to a shift "away from local production toward network production, away from music-based content toward news, information and entertainment." That shift was extraordinarily successful, representing two decades of impressive audience expansion and financial growth at a time when other parts of the radio industry struggled. Now, it appears that program decision-makers are changing course. But why would dozens of stations move off the path that worked so well and choose another approach that, viewed through the lens of audience research, would seem to be both more costly and less powerful in attracting listenership?"

Many similarities between the programming at KUOW and KSFR NB: KUOW has a "yesterday" sorta website. About KUOW [KUOW Studio Door] The mission of KUOW is to create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures. To accomplish our mission, KUOW: produces and acquires programming that meets the highest standards of journalism, cultural expression and entertainment; seeks advice and guidance from the community; provides a workplace that values professional growth, experimentation and cultural diversity; and utilizes state-of-the-art communication technologies. The fundamental values that guide our mission are: respect for the intelligence of our listeners; relevance to the local community; accuracy, thoroughness and fairness in reporting; creative use of sound to engage the intelligence, curiosity and imagination of listeners; innovation; and non-commercial operation.

well wants to expand your mind. Today the startup "reinventing news radio" closed a $5.4 million round of funding, led by elite firm Draper Fisher Jurveston. Swell provides a Pandora-like service for listening to podcasts. The iOS app delivers an audio stream of up-to-date, curated news and information. Users can skip content that doesn't interest them or bookmark interesting things for later. The app learns from your behavior to make personalized recommendations.

Police scanners are unique devices that give you the ability obtain information about your local community at the same time police officers receive it. Having a police scanner built in to your computer is especially useful for reporters, as well as people who like to listen in as a hobby. It's easy to get your computer up and running as a police scanner. Read more: How Can I Use My PC As a Police Scanner? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6077604_can-use-pc-police-scanner_.html#ixzz1ZTT3rNSz

Apache Solr SolrTM is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache LuceneTM project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language. Solr's powerful external configuration allows it to be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced customization is required. See the complete feature list for more details. For more information about Solr, please see the Solr wiki.

How the Associated Press uses Twitter & Facebook 12 The Associated Press uses social media both to gather and disseminating information, approaching each social network differently. "Part of what we're doing is sharing content in a curated way," Eric Carvin, the AP's social media editor, tells DigiDay. "It helps as news gathering; if we're looking to find someone who has amateur video, we put out a call and a good chance we'll hear back from people." "When big news breaks, (Twitter is) one of the first tools we turn to to see if people are on the ground there, to get right to - and looking for - expert sources," said Carvin…. The AP also uses Twitter for promoting its own reporters, as well as its other social accounts. A big part of its overall strategy, according to Carvin, is to highlight the expertise of AP people around the world…. The AP finds that Facebook, not Twitter, is the best social tool for engagement. It has five or six accounts that actively communicates with its fans. It also does a lot of crowdsourcing on Facebook. Carvin highlighted the AP's use of crowdsourcing memories for the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He said they received dozens of responses that were thoughtful and interesting, and in a nimble move, decided to take many and put them out as two separate stories across the wire. "It contributed to our journalism," he said. However, Carvin noted that the AP has scaled back its use of Facebook. What used to be hourly posts now are between four and six per day. "We go to Twitter for breaking news, not Facebook," Carvin said. "If it's important, we'll toss it onto Twitter right away. We go to Facebook only when it's transcendent. Twitter is a breaking news platform, both in terms of what we put out and how we gather news. If news breaks, we look to Twitter more than Facebook."

"Digital puts news consumers in control News consumption in the digital era has become far more of a participatory activity than it was in the days when folks plopped into a La-Z-Boy to read the paper or watch the evening news. Publishers hoping to connect with modern audiences need to understand the radically different expectations that consumers have about when, where and how they get the news - and how they proactively mix, match and remix the information they acquire. The surprising degree to which consumers are using digital technology to personalize and control the news-consuming experience is illuminated in a recent study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Conducted online in the United States and eight other countries, the Oxford study shows an eclectic appetite for news sources and platforms around the world, as well as a sharp generational divide in what consumers do with the news after they obtain it. In particular, the findings show that digital natives under the age of 45 are more proactive than their elders. "