Contribute to This American Life

The M3 community might be interested in contributing to This American Life. The gist: interesting things that are happening to people this week that people have snippets of video/sound from.

I am submitting two pitches: my best friends daughter’s homebirth friday night and the memorial for Patrick Carrol that was going on at the same time.
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Hello Contributors!

This is a reminder that we’re still looking for stories to fill our This Week show – a show devoted to things happening all across America, big and small, in the coming week. We’re looking for stories that take place any time between right now (Friday evening!) through next Friday, June 14th.

A recap of what we’re looking for: Things that are happening to you, or to someone you know, or just out in the world, from June 8 – 14. These can be little, personal things – a first date, a divorce becoming final, opening a new business, a crucial baseball game. We’d especially like local news stories from your neck of the woods that aren’t getting national coverage, but still tell us a lot about what it’s like to live where you live. Or one that’s just absurd – the kind that’s a sheer pleasure to tell other people. Or just any interesting situation coming to a head that week — at school, at work, at city council, at your family reunion — where things will be decided, lines drawn, sides taken. That would be perfect, too. But again – no idea is too small.

We can do these stories as interviews or small essays or mini-documentaries or however.  It kind of depends on how much lead time we’ve got on the story, when it takes place, etc.  But we’ll figure it out.

Here’s the other thing we’d like: If something’s happening to you this week that you think would be cool to record, could you tape it? On your phone, or your camera – the quality doesn’t have to be perfect, as long as it’s audible. If it’s too big to email to us, we can talk you through how to send it another way.

Please email your ideas and pitches to: thisweek@thislife.org. And again, thank you so much, in advance, for all your great help. We can’t pull off this show without you.

Best, Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder

thisweek@thislife.org