1. Provide the title of your story or series and the names of the journalists involved.
The HealthyState.org is local public media project centered around health in the state of Florida. It is compromised of text, video and audio slide shows all pertaining to specific beats within the health arena. We cover wellness, trends, research, business, policy and public health.
2. List date(s) this work was published or aired.
October 2010 to present.
3. Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
WUSF Public Broadcasting in Tampa, Florida has received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to develop and implement the Healthy State Collaborative Local Journalism Center (LJC), a two year project aimed at strengthening collaboration among six public broadcasting stations geographically centered in Florida. This partnership will provide the opportunity to super serve the residents of this region with an intense journalistic commitment to the unifying topic of health care. WUSF, lead station for the Healthy State Collaborative, is distinguished by a significant history of public service. Other participating stations include WMNF community radio in Tampa, WGCU in Fort Myers, WLRN in Miami, WMFE in Orlando, and WEDU TV in Tampa. The collaborative will be led by Executive Editor Jennifer Molina, who most recently served as senior video producer for Newsweek.com. She will oversee a staff that will include a multimedia manager, a community engagement specialist, and five reporters dedicated to the project with one assigned to each participating radio station. The primary goal of the Healthy State Collaborative is to grow the collective audience through the creation of high quality journalism locally delivered through multiple platforms. Significant attention will be directed to engaging a younger, well-educated audience (ages 20-45) in addition to the core public radio audience (ages 45-65) through compelling content and community engagement opportunities that include audio, video, text, photos, blogs, social networking, dynamic syndication, and mobile applications.
4. Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
In depth web stories in print, video and audio slide galleries.
5. Explain types of human sources used.
Five reporters cover the large topic of health divided into the categories of: wellness, trends, research, business, policy and public health.
6. Results (if any).
Building an every health audience.
7. Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
No corrections so far.
8. Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
Multimedia training is key, and one-man- woman band reporting is essential. Gone are the days of news crews. You are the crew. You need to write well, shoot well and edit well.