E188: Public Media Partnerships: Baltimore Public Media and Delmarva Public Media

Well, and I'm curious because, you know, public radio feels and radio in general feels very localized.

It's very geographic.

And by concentrating on the environment, that's, I think, a unique system.

It's not a it is a beat, but it's it's sort of a underlying system that uniquely shapes those local areas.

So tell me a little bit about that.

the environmental or how the environmental beat shapes your coverage now and how you hope it changes under this new partnership.

And Judy, you have more water than Baltimore does.

So let's start with you.

We have a lot more water.

That's true.

It's very watery around here.

And I want to underscore that it's the environment and agriculture.

We look at those combined because it's one of the most important, obviously, industries on the Eastern Shore, the whole Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware too, and Virginia.

and we cover parts of those states as well.

So we really wanted to focus on that because we both share those issues, agriculture and the environment throughout Maryland is one of the most important topics.

Right now we cover it, we have really just one news director We have a couple of freelance people, but our news team is pretty limited.

So we're covering it by interviews, other reporters who cover the environment.

This way we can have our own reporter and direct, along with Baltimore Public Media, that coverage that makes sense.

for our region, and for the rest of Maryland.

So that will make a huge impact for us.

Instead of interviewing other people, we're actually deciding what that content looks like.

So what kind of stories, and I know you haven't hired the reporter yet, so this might be a little premature, but can you give me an example of a story that you want to tell once you have this new capacity? Sure.

Sure.

One of them is in agriculture, and it's the Haitian community.

We have an incredibly large Haitian community here.