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What would your city look like if humans had never settled there? How did your region's accent develop, and how has it evolved? And what's really sitting at the bottom of that river?
These questions — thoughts that likely run through your brain every day — are exactly what powers Curious City, a crowd-driven, multimedia "news experiment." The platform lets you ask any question about your city, the surrounding region or its people to Curious City reporters. If chosen, they'll actually work with you to uncover the facts.
Curious City's founder and senior producer, Jennifer Brandel, came up with the idea while working as an independent producer and general assignment reporter at Chicago public radio station WBEZ. She saw that Localore, an initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), was inviting producers to come up with new ideas that could benefit the public media system, to be incubated at radio stations around the U.S. Read more...
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