Project Background/Timeline
2006
As one of 9 station partners in the LNI/PRPD "Sense of Place" research project, KNAU, hears its Flagstaff listeners describe life in their community as "poverty with a view." The phrase captures their love of Flagstaff’s environmental beauty but distress at its high cost of living, tough job market and quickening pace of development.
2007
KNAU and the NPR Local News Initiative partner to produce an in-depth series that will identify and explore the complex web of issues "Poverty with a View" represents. NPR Morning Edition Producer Cindy Carpien and Editor Maeve McGoran are named to work with KNAU. In October, the project kicks off with a Town Meeting in Flagstaff, drawing more than 200 participants who brainstorm ideas for the series with station reporters.
2008
In April, KNAU broad (and pod) casts "Poverty with a View", a twelve-part local news series airing over six days in Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. The series produces a major jump in cume and a significant increase in AQH.
In August, series features are reversioned for a national audience and begin airing on Morning Edition; Amenity Migrants, Boomlet Towns and White Water Guides.
In September, “Poverty with a View” wins the 2008 PRPD Ace Award for News.
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