Atlantic Public Media

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APM's Mission "To honor the ideals of public broadcasting at the local and national level through creative and experimental approaches to program production, training, and distribution. To explore ways to act as a positive catalytic force in the communities we serve, using all appropriate media for the exchange of perspectives, the stimulus of the imagination, and the celebration of our inherent diversity."

APM's History
Atlantic Public Media was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993 (originally named Cape and Islands Community Public Radio) to create a new public radio service for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. For seven years, founder Jay Allison and a band of zealots pushed this along at the local and federal level. In 2000, with WGBH-Boston supporting and adopting our effort, WCAI and WNAN finally went on the air. Amen. APM has now evolved into a production and training organization, focusing on public media, particularly public radio, founding projects like Transom.org, This I Believe, The Moth, and many others, including this one, PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.

Series

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Radio stations in Coastal Massachusetts and in the Gobi Desert get to know each other.

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73 Pieces

From the Encyclopedia of Life: the wonders of nature—right outside your back door and halfway around the world. In our new season of audio broadcasts, we’ll be learning about life as small as yeast and as big as a bowhead whale.

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6 Pieces

A series of hours about the intersection of people and the natural world

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A movement to build a new food story is growing. In each 5-part series of The Shift, Elspeth Hay connects us with people reimagining the systems that sustain us.

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14 Pieces

Transom.org is the public radio website dedicated to helping people tell their own stories. Transom offers the tools, the techniques and the encouragement to get those stories on the air and help public radio fulfill its mission. From time to time Transom creates special hours for broadcast. These are generally stories we're not hearing on traditional broadcast outlets and often the voices of those we don't hear from at all.


Pieces

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The marabou stork of southern Africa isn’t much to look at—it’s large, ungainly, and bald like a vulture, with a nasty appetite for carrion.

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
Caption: Hypholoma fasciculare., Credit:  Albert P. Bekker, CalPhotos. CC BY-NC-SA
Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into almost every corner of the terrestrial world.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amorphophallus titanum, Credit:  Paul Morris, BY-SA
When you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Jos...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
Caption: Arctic Tern, Credit: Blake Matheson, Flickr: EOL Images
A lifetime of migration: equal the distance to the moon and back, three times.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KSKA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Eremomidas arabicus, Credit: Brigitte Howarth~Emirates Natural History Group/Zayed University
Water in the desert is not always an oasis. A cautionary tale from the United Arab Emirates

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Starling, Credit: Philip Heron
A story in two acts of the starling: omnivorous, gregarious, adaptable, and highly successful in its adopted land.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
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Measuring change in a landscape by the span of a butterfly's wings

  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
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Inside the very unique ecosystem where the ocean meets the land.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wiloughby Elementary School Field of Dreams Mural
Maybe painted wooden fish on a schoolyard fence can change human behavior and help clean up the ocean for the real salmon

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 5