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The Local Global Mashup Show by Latitude News
Get the inside edge on the stories that connect Americans to the world -- in your ear every week.
Successful!- 108% funded
- $47,978 pledged
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Feb 15, 2013
Local? Global? Podcasts? From award-winning journalists? We love these kinds of projects. Help Latitude turn from a monthly podcast to a weekly one.
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Science Studio by Rose Eveleth
The Best Science Media on the Web
Successful!- 163% funded
- $8,160 pledged
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Feb 16, 2013
Know a great science radio or audio podcast story from the past year? This highly accomplished team of science writers and journalists want to put it into a podcast.
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Kickstart our Heart! Della Mae Records Debut Album by Della Mae
Della Mae, an all-girl bluegrass supergroup, is FINALLY recording their debut full-length album "I Built This Heart".
Successful!- 146% funded
- $11,750 pledged
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Jul 24, 2011
This awesome all-female bluegrass is on a "Stan" tour, performing in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. More about their music and tour at http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/bluegrass-in-pakistan/
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MBB and CO.'s Encore Performances! by Monica Bill Barnes
Monica Bill Barnes & Company joins forces with special host Ira Glass for follow-up dance performances after This American Life Live!
Successful!- 103% funded
- $10,353 pledged
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Nov 07, 2012
Dancing? Public radio? Really. If you watched This American Life Live in May, you had a chance to see this awesome dance company. They are planning an encore live performance in NYC in two weeks and need your backing to put on a fabulous show.
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DecodeDC by Andrea Seabrook
Washington is broken. You are not. Help DecodeDC report stories that really matter.
Successful!- 134% funded
- $100,724 pledged
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Oct 19, 2012
Andrea Seabrook is one of the nation's finest political journalists and she wants to give you important , in depth Beltway news without the clutter and noise of horserace reporting. With Kickstarter support, she'll produce 30 podcast episodes.
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PLYMPTON: Serialized Fiction for Digital Readers by Plympton
Imagine the novel, updated. We're a new literary studio creating compelling, serialized stories for the future of reading.
Successful!- 188% funded
- $56,588 pledged
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Oct 09, 2012
Serialized fiction meets digital devices. Cool. This project is headed by Jenny 8 Lee, friend of PRI and a profoundly smart and savvy journalist.
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Arab Artists in a Revolution by Christopher Lydon
Radio conversations with the liveliest minds inside an ongoing revolution
Successful!- 145% funded
- $21,745 pledged
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Oct 09, 2012
Veteran journalist and public radio host Christopher Lydon and his team want to bring you unique first-hand voices of and from the Arab Spring. Kickstarter funding will help him and his team travel to North Africa to converse with amazing artists of the Arab World.
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KHOI: Iowa's Homegrown Community Radio by Ursula Ruedenberg
KHOI is community radio being built for Central Iowa. $12,000 completes the broadcast studio for programming created by local talent.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $12,086 pledged
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Sep 15, 2012
KHOI seeks to build community through communication in Ames, Iowa. Kickstarter funding will help them finish their studio for live programming and get on the air.
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Narratively by Narratively
Narratively is a digital publication devoted to original, true & in-depth stories about New York, with plans to expand to other cities.
Successful!- 107% funded
- $53,739 pledged
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Sep 10, 2012
We admire efforts to bring more in-depth, original journalism to the public. This Kickstarter campaign will enable Narratively to create six months of compelling stories about New York.
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pIO - microSD Adapter for Raspberry Pi by rwinscot
Have your cake and eat it too... microSD for Raspberry Pi!
Successful!- 3,092% funded
- $15,460 pledged
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Sep 06, 2012
Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer (minus the monitor, keyboard, and mouse), and this campaign wants to offer nifty Raspberry Pi microSD adapters. The World's weekly Tech Podcast features cool low-cost tech like this at http://www.world-science.org/category/technology_podcast
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Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang - SXSW TOUR by Wills Glasspiegel
JANKA NABAY AND THE BUBU GANG go on tour to South by South West in Texas and to Sierra Leone diaspora communities on the east coast.
Successful!- 103% funded
- $5,180 pledged
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Mar 10, 2011
Recently, PRI's weekly arts and culture program Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen had Janka Nabay and his fusion of Sierra Leonese and American indie music on the air. http://www.studio360.org/2012/aug/17/from-sierra-leone-to-brooklyn-janka-nabay-bubu-gang/
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Meet Your Mind: The Science of Consciousness by To the Best of Our Knowledge
A comic book exploring consciousness
Successful!- 115% funded
- $17,277 pledged
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Sep 01, 2012
Kudos to one of our distributed shows, To The Best of Our Knowledge, which successfully raised funds via Kickstarter to create a comic book about consciousness.
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Maga Bo - Quilombo do Futuro - New Album Release by Maga Bo
Hard, earthy afro-brazilian rhythms collide with and absorb the futuristic blips and bass of sound system culture.
Successful!- 114% funded
- $5,716 pledged
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Jan 29, 2012
On every broadcast of The World, co-anchor Marco Werman brings you the Global Hit, a segment highlighting international music. This band from Brazil was just on The World. You can hear more wonderful global music at http://www.theworld.org/category/global-hit/
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Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs from Tito's Yugoslavia by PKnox
A compilation of ultra-rare Roma Gypsy music from the golden age of Yugoslav pop, 1960-1980.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $6,072 pledged
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Oct 07, 2012
This project is very Global Hit like. Gypsy Pop from Yugoslavia, plus with liner notes, rare photographs and restored audio
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