Efforts by WNIN to give informational assistance to newly unemployed area residents has earned the local public television station a My Source Education Innovation Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
The award recognizes how WNIN worked with Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s office, WorkOne and the United Way of Southwestern Indiana to develop a two-phase approach for helping the unemployed workers.
The approach included a television call-in program, “Economic Response,” which aired Feb. 9, 2009, and numerous short on-air informational messages.
WNIN’s My Source achievement includes a $3,000 grant to further support the project.
WSIU — the public media arm of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale — also received a My Source Education Innovation Award from the CPB.
The award pays tribute to WSIU’s creative approach in using public media resources and digital technologies to improve teacher instruction and student outcomes. Its winning TV testimonials feature Southern Illinois teachers Keely Gelso and Dimitra Palaskonis of the Alice Wright Early Childhood Center in Carbondale.
WSIU is receiving a $3,000 grant from the CPB to continue its work using public media as an integral part of its educational outreach efforts.
Pat Harrison, president and chief executive officer of CPB, lauded both WNIN and WSIU for their “outstanding contributions” to their communities.
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