INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC RADIO Connecting Northern Michigan and the World
IPR is more than a radio station. It is the beating heart of Interlochen, connecting northern Michigan and the world. This year, IPR News continued its award-winning journalism. Our stories earned national placement on NPR and other platforms, helping to further connect Interlochen with our global family. We deepened our reporting and expanded our efficiency via the opening of our Straits Bureau and the creation of collaborative positions like our Report for America position shared with the Traverse City Record-Eagle . Classical IPR continues to reach new audiences, helping classical music thrive and highlighting the work of Interlochen’s incredible students and faculty. Throughout the summer, Interlochen musicians fanned out across the region at nontraditional venues from Manistee to Charlevoix. They brought music to unlikely places—from gas station pop-up concerts to a 10-concert IPR Live series—featuring Interlochen faculty and alumni, and ensembles-in-residence Sound Garden and PULSE Quartet. Classical Sprouts , a new podcast designed to engage families in classical music, launched in June 2022, working in tandem with our popular radio program, Kids Commute . The generosity of IPR supporters launched a recording engineer fellowship, which greatly expanded IPR’s ability to record and present music on campus and throughout the region. The fellow is provided housing in the Alldredge Cabin—a welcoming home for visiting reporters, interns, and technicians located near the station—and works under the direction of the IPR senior recording engineer. The fellowship facilitated a record 50 student recording sessions in Studio A this year, supported IPR’s live concert series, and opened up IPR studios to three album recording projects for faculty and alumni. Strong donor support for environmental journalism allowed IPR to produce its most significant project to date, [Un]Natural Selection . This series about human intervention in the natural world of the upper Great Lakes included reporting from both Michigan peninsulas, as well as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana. It was heard on stations across the region, as well as in New Hampshire, and was IPR’s first concerted podcast effort to reach a national audience.
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2022 ANNUAL REPORT
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