KCRW's Independent Producer Project

WE CULTIVATE AND SUPPORT THE WORK OF INDEPENDENT RADIO PRODUCERS AND MEDIA ARTISTS IN LOS ANGELES AND BEYOND.

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The 2015 Radio Race Winners!

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/the-24-hour-radio-race-2015

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A story containing love, violence and a magic potato. Warning: This program contains explicit language and addresses adult topics and themes - including sex and drug use.

Today on Unfictional, a story from part of the ongoing KCRW series "Below the Ten: Life in South L.A.” This series is produced by David Weinberg.

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Radio Race 2015 Finalists!

The top ten Radio Race finalists have been announced! Great job, guys!

A special shout-out to all those who entered :) We got so many great audio pieces, dudes(and dudettes). 

http://blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2015/08/top-ten-kcrw-radio-race-finalists'

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Some Radio Race Things...

 TEAMS

Only ONE PERSON PER TEAM  needs to register. Only one entry fee is required per team. (Remember, AIR members get a discount!) There’s no limit to the number of people on your team. Just come up with a name and be sure to use it when you upload your entry to Soundcloud.

SOUNDCLOUD

There are two really important things you need to do, and we suggest doing them BEFORE the race begins, so that you don’t waste any precious time.

1.Set up a SoundCloud account

(If you don’t already have one): just go to https://soundcloud.com/ and click the orange “Sign up for SoundCloud” button. You only need to use ONE person’s SoundCloud account per team.

2. Join the 24-Hour Radio Race Group

Go HERE and click ‘Join’:You may also want to familiarize yourself with SoundCloud before the race starts. Here’s an article explaining how to upload a piece. Simply select the “Choose files” button, then locate the mp3 of your finished piece on your computer.

We’ll send you more details about uploading and naming your piece before the race begins.

TIME ZONES

A reminder that the Radio Race starts and ends at the same time for everyone, no matter where you are in the world. The 24-hour period begins when we email you the theme on Saturday, August 8th at 10AM Pacific Time. Your finished piece must be uploaded to SoundCloud BY Sunday August 9th at 10AM Pacific Time in order to be eligible for judging.

Don’t forget the Social Butterfly Award! It’s given to the team who best documents their 24-hour adventure on Facebook and using the hashtag#RadioRace. Why not start now?

JUDGES

We have a distinguished panel of judges who will be winnowing all the completed entries down to 10 finalists and then 3 winners.

Our panel of judges includes:

Andrew Leland (The Organist) Anne Wootton (Pop Up Archive) Ben Calhoun (WBEZ) Bob Carlson (KCRW) Brendan Baker (Love + Radio) Caitlin Shamberg (KCRW) Carolyn Kellogg (LA Times) Colin Anderson (Maximum Fun) David Weinberg (KCRW) Gary Scott (KCRW)     Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist) Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters) Jennifer Brandel (Hearken) Jennifer Ferro (KCRW) Jim Colgan (Audible) John Barth (PRX) Lu Olkowski (Independent) Madeleine Brand (KCRW) Matt Holzman (KCRW) Nick White (KCRW) Rebecca Feldhaus Adams (AIRmedia) Sitara Nieves (Marketplace) Sonari Glinton (NPR) Suzie Lechtenberg (WNYC)

We’ll announce finalists about a week after the race, and the winners another week after that. For more information about our various prizes, go HERE.

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It’s soon! People are signing up like mad. Take your shot at $1,000, airplay on KCRW’s UnFictional and eternal glory (late-night adventures guaranteed).@kcrw kcrw.com/radiorace

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Terry was on Wait… Wait… Don’t Tell Me! the NPR news quiz. 

The show was recorded at the Mann Center in Philadelphia in front of 5,500 soaking wet – and incredibly loyal – public radio fans. 

Not My Job: Terry Gross Gets Quizzed On Terry Gene Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan)

Photos courtesy of Derek Brad 

[npr]

One of the most public radio things to happen on public radio <3 -Ariel

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https://soundcloud.com/kcrw/how-eating-grass-fed-meat-changed-one-familys-life

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[wheelcher]

[seauxphie]

i was expecting the ‘holy f***ing s***, f***ing dinosaurs’ but this was just

[imyourhucklebberry]

i wAS TRYING TO DRINK WATER AND IT WENT UP THE BACK OF MY MOUTH AND OUT OF MY NOSE

[poisonmushroom-org]

I was about to take a sip of my drink, and I couldn’t finish, I was laughing too hard.

And it just gets worse as it keeps going.

[prettycakemachine]

This one of my favorite things on the internet. I have shared it a thousand times and I will never stop.

[anyroads]

If you don’t want me to reblog this, stop making it exist. 

[just-shower-thoughts]

I’ve never once heard a car alarm going off and thought, “someones car is getting stolen.”

[naomiwilkinson]

Have a good weekend!

[npr]

This is exactly the right idea for the weekend. -Ariel

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A new Sounds LA! Hiking Mt. Baldy

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Confetti Parade! We're welcoming Here Be Monsters to the KCRW family!

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I once saw a woman possessed right in front of me. Her eyes glazed over, she shook, and she wasn't there anymore… someone else was.

Wow. 

[reuters]

Anger as Los Angeles police commissioners issue a mixed ruling in the shooting of an unarmed black man by two officers. Paul Chapman reports. See the full video. 

[npr]

More and more people in education agree on the importance of learning stuff other than academics.

But no one agrees on what to call that “stuff”.

There are least seven major overlapping terms in play. New ones are being coined all the time. This bagginess bugs me, as a member of the education media. It bugs researchers and policymakers too.

“Basically we’re trying to explain student success educationally or in the labor market with skills not directly measured by standardized tests,” says Martin West, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “The problem is, you go to meetings and everyone spends the first two hours complaining and arguing about semantics.”

West studies what he calls “non-cognitive skills.” Although he’s not completely happy with that term.

Nonacademic Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them?

Illustration credit: LA Johnson/NPR