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AIR Events

We invite you to spend some time touring the archives of those held within the last six years. AIR presents events, are presenters and guests at most conferences, and sponsor many radio related events in The U.S., Canada. and Europe.

2010

AIRsters named by FCC to consider Future of Media, Washington, DC
 • Terry Clifford, SRG
 • Nan Rubin, Prometheus Radio Project
 • Jake Shapiro, PRX
 • Sue Schardt, Executive Director, AIR
Also, from member/networks: Vivian Schiller and Kinsey Wilson from NPR, and Bill Kling and Joaquin Alvarado representing APM.
April 30, 2010

All About Story: AIR Mentorships
Aimed at AIR-member producers interested in strengthening their storytelling skills and preparing a story for distribution.
March 1 - May 31, 2010 

The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-enabled World
MIT's Center for Future Civic Media
 • Robert Bole, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
 • Sue Schardt, The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)
 • Marita Rivero, WGBH-Boston
 • Kinsey Wilson, National Public Radio
March 1, 2010

AIR Mingle: Los Angeles, CA
February 25, 2010

NCME/AIR Webinar: Innovative Media Models of MQ2
 • Sue Schardt, AIR Executive Director
 • Jenny Asarnow, The Corner
 • Kara Oehler, Mapping Main Street
 • Julie Drizin, Talent Manager
February 10, 2010

AIR Mingle: New York, NY
January 19, 2010

 

2009 

MQ2, Taking Public Media to the Streets panel at PRPD, Cleveland OH
September 15, 2009

Public Media Producers' Meeting: Public Media's Moment at PRPD in Cleveland
September 14th, 2009

Public Broadcasting, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow a panel at the AAJA featuring Sue Schardt, Executive Director of AIR, Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR's On Point, Stephen Gong, Executive Director, Center for Asian American Media, and Roney Arsonson-Rath, Senior Producer, Frontline -- watch video here
July 30, 2009

"There Is a Great Reshaping Going On": AIR Executive Director’s Remarks to Producers at the Virtual Annual Membership Meeting
June 5, 2009

Mic Shoot-Out, a one-day intensive in partnership with WGBH Radio, led by Miles Smith and Jane Pipik
May 23, 2009

MQ2 Takes Public Media to the Streets
May 8, 2009

“Live? Die? Kill?: 3 Questions in Various Geographies” A live radio broadcast intensive/performance with Karen Michel broadcast on WMBR/88.1FM as part of the Megapolis Festival of Audio Art, Cambridge MA
April 25, 2009 

“Pieces of 8” a live interactive sound installation by AIRster Deb Todd Wheeler and David O’Brien at the Megapolis Festival of Audio Art, Cambridge MA
April 24-26

Producers Shaping the Sound of Tomorrow panel at NFCB in Portland OR
April 3, 2009

The Future of Radio an MIT Media Lab/Comparative Media Lecture with AIR Executive Director Sue Schardt, Bill Siemering/Developing Radio Partners, and the Media Labs Chief Knowledge Officer, Henry Holtzman
March 18, 2009

Producers: Moving the Listeners of Tomorrow panel at IMA in Atlanta GA
February 19, 2009

Association of Independents in Radio Names Producers Chosen to "Shape the Sound of Tomorrow"
February 13, 2009

Where We Stand: AIR Looks Ahead
February 4, 2009

Hammad Ahmed Goes Live-Interactive
January 14, 2009

 

2008

AIR’S “Perfect Pitch” at the Third Coast Festival 2008
October 10, 2008

Makers Quest 2.0 Open for Nominations At MQ2.org
October 9, 2008

PRPD Panel — Our Best and Brightest Producers and Stations: What Next? – (with AIR)
September 19, 2008

Eighteen Signed On for AIR’s "Sounds Elemental"
August 22, 2008

Hearing is Believing
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, in partnership with AIR, announces Summer 2008 Audio Institutes
July 13–19 and August 11–16, 2008

NFCB Panel: Bringing the Outside In – A listening Room presented by the AIR and the Third Coast International Audio Festival
March 28, 2008

Radio Without Boundaries Conference & Workshops
May 30 to June 1, 2008

IMA Panel — AIR's Setting the Makers Table: Shooting Video/Capturing Audio
February 24, 2008

2007

Creative Sound Assemblage for Digital Media Producers
Presented by the Association of Independents in Radio & Harvestworks Digital Media Center
New York City
May 7 to May 11, 2007

AIR Clinics Spring 2007
Interviewing, Writing, and Editing with ProTools
March to May 2007

Summer Audio Institutes 2007
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
June and August 2007

AIR Names New Executive Director
August 27, 2007 

AIR's "Setting the Makers' Table" 
Public Radio Program Director's Association
2007 Public Radio Programming Conference Session
Minneapolis, MN
September 27, 2007

Getting to Yes: Perfecting Your Pitch
Third Coast International Audio Festival
November 1-3

2006

The 31st NFCB Annual Conference
Public Broadcasting New Media Conference, Seattle, Washington
The Third Annual AIR Interlochen Radio Residency, Traverse City, Michigan

2005

Making Radio that you Can't Turn Off: A Clinic for Advanced Producers
Mining the Memory Bank
; Creating Character-Driven Documentaries, Hamilton, Ontario
Audio Theatre Workshop, West Plains, MO
Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art, Toronto
Radio Without Boundaries Conference, Toronto
AIR @ IBS Nat'l Conference, Hotel Pennsylvania: 3/11-13
AIR/NY Fest Social Event @ Chocolate Monkey, 6-9PM THU FEB 24

2004

AIR at the IBS Northeast Regional Conference, Boston
AIR at the IBS Western Regional Conference, Los Angeles
The Art of Radio: An extension of AIR's Mentoring Program
Mic Technique & Practice: An Intensive Workshop for the Independent Producer @ WGBH in Boston
AIR Members invited to the 2004 Int'l Radio Programming & Promotions Awards After Show Party

2003

AIR Producers Intensive 2003

2001

AIR Producers Summit 2001

2000

Annual Meeting 2000