PRX Projects

A Showcase of Past and Current PRX Endeavors



WBUR iPhone App

The WBUR app is the ultimate iPhone app from one of the country's leading public radio stations. WBUR is Boston's NPR station, bringing you local, national, and world news and information, with shows like On Point, Here and Now, Only a Game, Car Talk, and Radio Boston.

The app allows listeners to tune into WBUR live any place, anytime, and browse hundreds of programs on demand. The app also gives listeners instant access to shows' schedules, a daily line-up of guests and topics and hourly news and weather reports from WBUR's Bob Oakes.



This American Life App

This American Life, the hit public radio show from Chicago Public Radio, has collaborated with PRX to launch an app for iPhone and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store.

The app gives unprecedented on-demand access to the full This American Life archive going back to 1995. New episodes are added automatically and users can search by episode or contributor — including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman and dozens more. Episodes can be streamed for free or purchased from iTunes for offline listening. The app also includes trailers of the Showtime TV show, staff picks, exclusive audio and video extras, plus a link to the live broadcast each Friday.



Public Radio Player

  • www.publicradioplayer.org
  • 2008-present
  • Partners: Led by PRX in partnership with National Public Radio (NPR), Public Interactive (PI), American Public Media (APM), and Public Radio International (PRI)
  • Funding: CPB
  • Twitter

The project’s goal is to establish a coordinated approach to the iPhone as a powerful platform for public media, setting standards and shared resources for further application development. The project guidelines specified certain features, including access to local stations’ internet radio streams, station program schedules when available, and on-demand program episodes from local, independent, and national content providers


The Moth Radio Hour

PRX is thrilled to announce the debut of five pilot episodes of The Moth Radio Hour. Each Moth Radio Hour mixes humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant tales that captivate audiences with their honesty and bravery. The new radio series captures the energy and authenticity of an evening of live performance at The Moth woven into a compelling hour of radio.

Brought to you by PRX and award-winning producer Jay Allison, the pilot season of five hour-long episodes is available free to public radio stations.



Generation PRX

Generation PRX supports youth-produced radio by helping youth radio groups share their work through PRX and by providing a space for training and feedback. GPRX also brings stations to PRX to listen, license, and ultimately broadcast youth-produced radio.



Remix Radio is an experimental radio stream hosted by PRX to showcase pieces from PRX.org and develop new approaches to public radio formats and sounds.

It is a 24-hour semi-formatless remix of amazing public radio stories, cool podcasts, fascinating interviews, and anything else that makes a sound that we find interesting. Hear Remix on satellite airwaves all over the world on XM 136 and streaming on remixradio.org.




Image by Genevieve Sponsler

Zeitfunk Awards


Each spring we release the results of the "mostiest" stations, producers, pieces and listeners for the previous calendar year. It's like a zeitgeist, only funkier — and a great resource of what’s selling and who’s buying it on PRX.




Fundraising Soundbank

Pledge drives take a lot of work and planning...but we can make your life easier! The Fundraising Soundbank curates and organizes pledge spots that are ready to air, plus spots that will inspire you to produce versions that make sense for your local station.


Past Projects





EconomyStory provides a one-stop shop for finding thoughtful editorial coverage of wide-ranging issues facing the American economy and their global implications. Tools and resources created by the collaboration partners are available for public and station use, and many can be added as widgets to your web site or social networking page.

EconomyBeat scours the Web for user-generated content related to the economy and the way ordinary people are reacting to and coping with the recession and the fallout from the financial crisis. The project includes a podcast of PRX producers' economy-related work.



FluPortal

U.S. health agencies are seeing a significant increase in H1N1 flu cases this flu season, and FluPortal.org is here to help public media stations cover the pandemic.

Visit FluPortal for local and national reports about H1N1 from across the public media system, Web content and widgets for stations to post on their own sites, and resources for covering the pandemic in your state and local community. FluPortal is also gathering news, public information, and data from a variety of government and non-government organizations. The FluPortal blog tracks the latest updates.



Image by dcJohn

Campaign Audio


PRX, with the help of station and indy producers, built a massive collection of audio from the 2008 presidential campaign. The audio was tagged in categories that helped programmers find what they needed, and most is still available for free.

Campaign Audio Curator Charles Lane worked with PRX to find, select, annotate, and promote public radio and other audio material on Campaign ‘08 and related issues. The collection includes produced pieces, interviews, raw audio from campaign appearances, issue-based and local/regional stories that can be edited or excerpted for re-use by stations and other project partners.



BallotVox

BallotVox featured smart local perspectives on the 2008 US presidential campaign. It exists as an extensive archive of the best blog posts, videos, and pictures created by regular people — the best social media about the '08 candidates and issues based on close observations in towns and communities. It highlighted the voices of interested citizens rather than professional journalists.

The site "stands as a record of the hopes that regular people expressed throughout Campaign ‘08. What they thought and fought about during the campaign and the transition and the inauguration." - BallotVox Curator Katherine Bidwell.



Public Radio Talent Quest

CPB funded two teams, PRX and Launch, in the search for exciting new talent for public radio. PRX received over 1,458 submissions from all over the U.S. Judging involved several rounds of audio submission, and three winners from PRX were announced. Each of the winners received $10,000 each to fund pilot programs: Curiosity Aroused from Rebecca Watson, Snap Judgment from Glynn Washington, and State of the Re:UNION from Al Letson.

CPB has continued to fund Al and Glynn in production of new episodes and to further develop their programs for national distribution.




Image by Chris Henden

Pubcatcher


Pubcatcher is a simple tool that allows public radio listeners to subscribe to podcast feeds of their favorite programs. The audio files are automatically downloaded onto your computer so you can listen to them any time. You can even choose to have them loaded onto your iPod.