WORLD KUOW 2O12 REPORT TO CONTRIBUTORS KUOW 94.9 :: puget sound public radio :: KUOW.ORG KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO’S MISSION IS TO CREATE AND SERVE AN INFORMED PUBLIC, ONE CHALLENGED AND INVIGORATED BY AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF EVENTS, IDEAS AND CULTURES. KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio Board of Directors Joan Enticknap Norm Arkans–Ex Officio Ben Klasky Thank you to Stephanie Chair Katharine Barrett Maryfrances Lignana Ellis-Smith and Frank Nelson Dong Mike Mathieu Woodruff (past Chair) Judy Endejan Susan Feeney Mark Mennella who concluded their Vice Chair Indranil Ghosh Scott Poepping service as KUOW Puget Jon Eastlake Christian Halliburton Susan Potts Sound Public Radio Treasurer Wier Harman Wayne Roth–Ex Officio board members in Haeryung Shin Chris Higashi Allan Steinman Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12). Secretary Dennis Kenny (past Chair) FOREWARD PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER: WAYNE C. ROTH This year we celebrated KUOW’s 60th reinvigorating public radio’s public service anniversary as a service of the University vision and extending its core values. To this of Washington (UW). By my reckoning, end, we are producing more hours of original no radio station in Western Washington programming than any time in the station’s has been licensed to the same owner history. Our online services have grown anywhere near as long. For the last significantly, delivering KUOW and KUOW2 as twelve years, Puget Sound Public Radio streams, podcasts and archives via the Internet has been operating KUOW on behalf of and mobile wireless services. the UW. Once again it’s my pleasure to acknowledge KUOW continues to fill the airwaves the good work of the KUOW staff and generous with programming that enriches our democracy, support from KUOW donors. Puget Sound our communities and our daily discussions. Public Radio is thriving and growing in this time KUOW offers an incomparable forum for broad of media disruption, economic uncertainty and news coverage, analysis, cultural expression political dysfunction. More than ever before, and storytelling. Most of this country’s broadcast public radio is an essential community service. media have been stripped of an authentic sense of place, culture and experience. Public radio is Thank you for supporting public radio’s one of the few trusted sources of information, public service. dialogue and culture in a rapidly changing international environment and at a time of challenge for communities across the nation. Wayne C. Roth KUOW staff and board are committed to KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio building on this position of strength by President and General Manager BOARD CHAIR: JOAN ENTICKNAP It’s an exciting time for KUOW and We all appreciate KUOW for its commitment public radio. Our locally-produced to providing the most trusted news and programs have increased their information. But we also value KUOW for interaction with listeners, encouraging offering the best in radio entertainment two-way dialogue through social media programs. From the familiar standbys such and our Public Insight Network (PIN). as A Prairie Home Companion and Car Talk The PIN makes listeners part of the and programs such as This American Life and team: You can participate in creating our Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me, to newer programs news stories by suggesting stories and such as Snap Judgment and Wiretap, KUOW providing additional content. And, we offers a wide range of entertaining and thought- have expanded access to KUOW, anytime and provoking shows to enrich our lives. Included in anywhere, through mobile device apps. this mix is KUOW’s own The Swing Years and Beyond music program, which has aired every As financial contributors to KUOW, our Saturday night for nearly half a century. The members and underwriters are providing critical generous financial support of individual donors support to the station at a time when traditional, and business underwriters makes all of these advertising-dependent media outlets continue programs possible. to consolidate and reduce their investments in news coverage and investigative reporting. KUOW’s Board, management and staff KUOW provides an essential community thank you for your continued support. Your service by focusing on its mission “to create financial contributions make it possible for and serve an informed public, one challenged KUOW to maintain its full range of news and and invigorated by an understanding and entertainment programming, while continuing appreciation of events, ideas and cultures.” to explore innovative ways to expand our This year, the KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio services to the community. Board continued to allocate financial resources towards developing new programming focused on the Puget Sound region. In addition, KUOW’s Program Venture Fund (PVF) provides special support for staff and independent producers to Joan Enticknap develop regional programming. KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio Board Chair 2 KUOW AWARDS JULY 2011– JUNE 2012 ‘SECRETS OF A Blonde BOMBSHELL,’ by Phyllis ‘LIVING IN A WHITE City,’ The Conversation, host Fletcher was recognized with three industry awards. Ross Reynolds and producers David Hyde and Arwen This story uncovered the secret identity of 1930s Nicks examined what it’s like to live in Seattle, one bandleader Ina Ray Hutton and originally aired on of the whitest cities in America, according to recent Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. Census figures. • Alliance for Women in Media Foundation • Public Radion News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Gracie Awards, Outstanding Portrait/Biography Awards, Call-In Programs – 1st Prize • Radio Television Digital News Association National Edward R. Murrow Award, ‘Farming Along THE Duwamish,’ Jim Gates, Audio Feature Reporting KUOW, and Carol Smith, InvestigateWest, looked at • Radio Television Digital News Association how the citizens of Seattle’s South Park community National Edward R. Murrow Award, are reclaiming the neighborhood’s agricultural roots UNITY Award – Radio to help fix their community’s future. • Society for Professional Journalists ‘DANGER at WORK,’ by John Ryan, Jim Gates, Northwest Excellence In Journalism Awards, editor, was recognized with two industry awards. Innovation Award – 2nd Place This series explored the causes and consequences of unsafe working conditions in Washington State. EDUcatION Beat REPOrtING, Phyllis Fletcher, • Society for Professional Journalists Jim Gates, editor. This award was given in Sigma Delta Chi Awards, recognition of exceptional educational reporting over Public Service In Radio Journalism the course of the 2010-2011 academic year. • Society for Professional Journalists • Education Writers Association’s Northwest Excellence In Journalism Awards, National Reporting Contest, Radio News Series – 2nd Place 1st Prize – Beat Reporting, Broadcast ‘THE WEIGHT OF WAR,’ by Patricia Murphy, KUOW, ‘THE VIADUCT,’ producer Dominic Black, Jim Gates, and Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, was recognized editor, delved into the history of this important traffic with two industry awards. This series, a collaboration artery and Seattle landmark. This series was funded with The Seattle Times, investigated the health impact through the KUOW Program Venture Fund. of the heavy equipment U.S. soldiers are required to carry into combat. • Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation Awards, • Association of Healthcare Journalists Awards, Outstanding Achievement In The Media Health Policy • Society for Professional Journalists KUOW’s award-winning stories are archived at Northwest Excellence In Journalism Awards, kuow.org/awards. Health Reporting – 1st Place 3 LOCALLY PRODUCED PROGRAMS WEEKDAY Senior Host: Steve Scher | Talk Show Producers: Katy Sewall and Jason Pagano Weekdays from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Every weekday, KUOW’s Steve Scher hosts conversations about the local, national and international events and ideas that impact Seattle and communities in the Puget Sound region. Regular features include book reviews from Nancy Pearl; Canadian perspectives from Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer; commentary on Puget Sound economic, business and technology news; and popular weekly panel discussions on gardening and the news in review. Guests on Weekday in FY12 included elected state and local officials, from the Governor to the Mayor of Gold Bar; award-winning authors such as Katherine Boo, Richard Ford and John Updike; musicians Taj Mahal, Branford Marsalis and Joshua Roman; and public radio favorites Frank Deford, Paula Poundstone, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. This past year, topics included U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, Arctic drilling, police reform, the cost of college education and a new Seattle sports arena. Weekday hosted three live broadcasts with author Sherman Alexie, actor Stephen Tobolowsky and librarian Nancy Pearl, and musical guests Rachel Flotard and Friends, The Bushwick Book Club and “Awesome!” These programs and more are archived at kuow.org/weekday. THE CONVERSATION Senior Host: Ross Reynolds | Talk Show Producers: David Hyde and Arwen Nicks Weekdays from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. The Conversation, KUOW’s daily news call-in program, covers local and regional news at noon, Monday through Friday, with interviews and features from KUOW’s newsroom and the Northwest News Network (N3). In FY12, The Conversation produced 215 hours of local programming. Highlight news reports included coverage of the Café Racer shootings an hour after they occurred and the U. S. Supreme Court ruling on affordable health care. This past year, the program