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“Rush to Kill” digs into a complex national story that consumed WFIU’s news team during the last months of the Trump administration.

A CPB-backed initiative helped launch YouTube series produced by stations in Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina, among other locations.

"No matter which direction we start from — event or idea first — we’re striving for the marriage of story and meaning."

The six-part drama has a “social consciousness that can really appeal to younger viewers,” says Meredith Turk of Nashville Public Television.

“Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life” focuses on what communities can do to eradicate hate and bigotry, says filmmaker Patrice O’Neill.

"Public radio is journalism, shows, music, culture. Content is an inexact blob that people in a boardroom can cut to a convenient and profitable size."

The four-part pilot series will be released on YouTube and the PBS video app.

"To read a justification of your decision to broadcast performances of music by nine different white men of European descent while finding excuses to reject the works of every nonwhite artist on the Met’s season was personally galling."

The union would include 11 staffers who work on the radio program and podcast “Snap Judgment” and the podcast “Spooked.”

The call-in show has attracted about 800 users to the social platform and hopes to help other stations with their own efforts.