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KPFA's War Comes Home Project: Radio Journalism Goes 2.0 - warcomeshome.org
Supporting organization:
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
URL:
http://warcomeshome.org
Location:
Berkeley, CA
Project Description:
More than 1.6 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of August 1, 2007, 67,000 of them had been killed or wounded. In addition, more than 250,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans had been treated at Veterans Administrations hospitals since their return home from combat.
KPFA launched this website in an effort to put a human face on the conflict. Only by truly listening to the stories of soldiers who've come home, can we appreciate the realities of war and what we can do to help.
Points of interest:
"Warcomeshome.org" is a potential model for the future of radio journalism at KPFA, and a move back toward the tradition of innovation at KPFA:
War Comes Home takes advantage of the multimedia potential of the Internet:
* Short, self-contained, well produced audio clips, visitors can listen right from the browser or download
* Transcripts, Links and Photo Content to supplement each audio clip
* Aaron Glantz's blog on the subject - about exposing hidden costs of the war
* RSS feeds for the audio clips, as well as the blog entries...
The real potential for the site comes from interactivity:
* The ability for visitors to leave comments
* Social Networking Tools to share stories on digg, myspace, etc...
* Ability to embed Audio clips on your blog or myspace page
