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About HealthyState.org

WUSF Public Broadcasting in Tampa, Florida received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to develop and implement the Healthy State Collaborative Local Journalism Center (LJC), a two year project aimed at strengthening collaboration among six public broadcasting stations geographically centered in Florida. This partnership has provided the opportunity to serve the residents of the region with an intense journalistic commitment to the unifying topic of health care.

WUSF, lead station for the Healthy State Collaborative, is distinguished by a significant history of public service. Other participating stations include WMNF community radio in Tampa, WGCU in Fort Myers, WLRN in Miami, WMFE in Orlando, and WEDU TV in Tampa.

The collaborative is led by Executive Editor Jennifer Molina, who most recently served as senior video producer for Newsweek.com. She oversees a staff that includes a multimedia manager, a community engagement specialist, and five reporters dedicated to the project, with one assigned to each participating radio station.

The primary goal of the Healthy State Collaborative is to grow the collective audience through the creation of high quality journalism locally delivered through multiple platforms. Significant attention is directed to engaging a younger, well-educated audience (ages 20-45) in addition to the core public radio audience (ages 45-65) through compelling content and community engagement opportunities that include audio, video, text, photos, blogs, social networking, dynamic syndication, and mobile applications.

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