Projects

BURN: An Energy Journal | The DNA Files | Science Literacy Project | The Really Big Questions | Community Outreach

BURN: An Energy Journal

It is the fundamental issue of our time: Energy; where we get it; how we use it; what happens then. It powers our homes and our economy; it creates troubled alliances and disturbing divisions; it empowers and impoverishes; it enables almost all that we do and now threatens all that we have become.

The Peabody-award winning SoundVision Productions presents BURN: An Energy Journal, a broadcast and digital project hosted by one of public radio’s most trusted journalists and master storytellers, Alex Chadwick. Alex will explore our energy future through the intimate stories of visionaries of research, maverick inventors, industry insiders and concerned citizens. These personal stories will help explain how and why we face an energy crisis, the dilemma of the continuing demand for energy, the realities and consequences of a mostly carbon-based industry and infrastructure, and some possible alternatives and personal/global solutions to an energy and climate future in the coming decades. BURN will follow the quest for Energy answers and the stirring public initiative required to transition to this new energy world.

Distributed by American Public Media, BURN is a series of four, one-hour broadcast specials and ongoing feature-length stories for APM's "Marketplace."

www.BurnAnEnergyJournal.com

Funded by the National Science Foundation

The DNA Files

Genetic science affects our health, our food, and our families. The DNA Files, a public radio series developed and produced by SoundVision, explains how. Additionally, an outreach program—with Web site and community-based collaborations with public radio stations and science museums including The Exploratorium®—brings these important ideas to a broader public.

Distributed by National Public Radio and now in its third series, The DNA Files has been recognized for excellence with numerous awards including the George Foster Peabody Award; Alfred duPont-Columbia University Award; American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award; Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Public Service Broadcast Award; American Institute of Biological Sciences Media Award for Broadcast Journalism; and Association of Women in Communications Clarion Award.

www.dnafiles.org

Funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Science Literacy Project

Download a sample application to the Science Literacy Project in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Before a reporter can tell a science story, he or she needs to grasp the science behind it. Public radio journalists face tremendous challenges as they strive to present this complicated information to a lay audience. The Science Literacy Project addresses this issue, offering intensive science training workshops to mid-career public radio producers and reporters.

With expertise in navigating the intricacies of science journalism and experience in creative and effective production techniques, SoundVision is ideally positioned to offer this rare educational opportunity. Participants emerge with the tools and knowledge to report science stories with insight, clarity, and imagination.

www.scienceliteracyproject.org

Funded by U.S. Department of Energy

THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS

The Really Big Questions, SoundVision’s newest public radio series, explores the dynamic boundary between science and the humanities. This documentary series tackles the Really Big Questions such as evolution, the nature of evil, and the relationships between men and women.

An outreach program—with companion Web site and collaborative projects with science museums and radio stations nationwide—carries ideas and themes from the series into the broader community, both secular and religious.

www.trbq.org

Funded by National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities

Community Outreach PROJECTS

The goal of SoundVision's outreach programs is to extend the reach of the radio programs into new communities, fostering dialog that increases the public’s understanding and awareness of genetic research and its implications. For The DNA Files outreach effort, participating stations developed local programming and community activities to attract younger listeners, families and ethnically diverse audiences, while delivering fresh information to core listeners.