Platform Aimed at Audience Interaction Generates Story Ideas, Goodwill

One morning in January, Elizabeth Marlow was on her way to work listening to KALW in San Francisco, her favorite local public radio station, when she heard an announcement encouraging listeners to share questions they wanted the station to investigate.

So Marlow, a nurse practitioner who has lived in the Bay Area for 18 years, went to the KALW site and submitted her question: “Where did all the folks living in tents along Division Street come from? Where did they get the tents?”

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