With a thoughtfully chosen group of people and coordinated intentionally, CABs become a treasure trove of connections and insights between your station and the community beyond your listening audience. It’s time to reimagine your CAB into one that plays an active role in your station strategy.

Andrea Tudhope was the senior producer for America Amplified’s national talk show centered around the 2020 election. She shares how she prioritized diversity and listening to create the show and how the show highlighted community stories from across the country.

America Amplified and Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication are partnering on a free course on understanding the news and how journalism works. “Mediactive: How to Participate in Our Digital World,” is now accepting enrollment for the October session.

Fear of COVID-19 and a strong desire for action against systemic racism continues to emerge as top of mind for people across America. Here’s what our reporters and producers learned in July.

KOSU in Oklahoma has been producing audio diaries submitted by Oklahomans. Kateleigh Mills, the station’s special projects reporter, shares how the process works and how she gives the diarists ownership in the final product.

Nate Hegyi, a reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau, will ride his bike 900 miles along the Great Divide from late August through September. He will stop at towns in 4 states along the way to learn what’s on the minds of communities ahead of the November election.

As part of our work with reporters, we asked them to ask the same throughline questions so that we may better understand America’s concerns and aspirations. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

The St.. Louis-based “We Live Here” podcast and America Amplified take a look at how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the unsheltered and homeless, who are among the most vulnerable communities in the country.

It all begins with an idea.

Known as the "Ellis Island of the South," refugees constitute roughly half the local population n Clarkston, Georgia, representing at least 60 nationalities in a town of about 2 square miles.