Big Orange pays tribute to the red, white & blue >>See page 2A
Ceramics showcase returns to architecture school >>See page 4A
2015
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Afternoon concert host and producer Whitney Dodds plays music during WUOT’s classical music program on weekdays from 1-4 p.m. Esther Choo • The Daily Beacon
What keeps you up at night? Courtney Anderson Contributor
If Matt Shafer Powell, director of news content at WUOT, has asked you to answer the question “What keeps you up at night?” on a piece of bright pink, green or orange paper, your response might be posted on his office wall. If, in the next few months, you happen to see a customized food truck driving around interviewing people, you’ll be looking at the enhanced version of that question. Independent radio station WUOT was recently named one of 15 radio stations that won the Association for Independence in Radio’s contest “Localore: Finding America.” The contest brings together independent producers and radio stations to find creative, innovative ways of sharing the news. The winners
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were chosen from more than 200 independent radio and television stations, as well as educators and coders. Radio stations had to submit video proposals explaining who they are, what they do and what kind of person they want to work with. Producers had to submit applications and find a radio station where they thought they would work well. “It’s like speed-dating,” Jess Mador, the independent producer who chose to work with WUOT, said. Mador has been an independent producer for radio news for a decade. She will be working with WUOT for the next nine months while the Association for Independence in Radios pays her salary. Knoxville was Mador’s first choice for a radio station. “I just thought what Matt wanted to do and what I wanted to do really fit,” Mador said. “What keeps you up at night?” is the ques-
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tion Powell brought to various communities and festivals in East Tennessee to ask people before WUOT entered Localore. Powell was working on his project Tenn Words, an anonymous project in which participants had to provide their age, gender, city, state and the answer to that question. Powell said the project started off as a “humble” one — so far, Tenn Words has gotten more than 650 responses from people in the region. Reaching different communities with Tenn Words was always Powell’s focus, and he said that working with Mador on a larger project provides an opportunity to take the concept behind Tenn Words and make it bigger. “I feel a little bit like I’m a parent watching my kid ride that bike on the road for the first time,” Powell said. See WUOT on Page 4
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