Revamped Detroit news show looks to community to set agenda

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https://current.org/2018/09/revamped-detroit-news-show-looks-to-community-to-set-agenda/

Detroit Public Television will Do a show called One Detroit.

Detroit Public Television is relaunching its flagship public affairs show by taking it out of the studio and into the streets.

Reports from the field will dominate One Detroit, a half-hour weekly program debuting Thursday. It replaces the long-running MiWeek, a roundtable talk show launched in 2012 that station executives said has run its course.

The relaunch is the culmination of a multiyear journalism and engagement initiative at DPTV to cover local communities under a One Detroit banner. The tagline is “4 million people. 1 story.”


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“We live in the most important city in America if you want to understand the 20th century or where cities are headed,” said DPTV CEO Rich Homberg. By asking where in Detroit DPTV’s journalists are needed, Homberg said, the show will respond to community concerns, including education, the environment, infrastructure and demographics.

The shift coincides with a revival of greater downtown Detroit, which has been battling poverty and violence for decades. People are moving back and new businesses are opening, said Homburg and Ed Moore, director of content at DPTV and One Detroit. Major projects announced this summer include Ford Motor Co.’s plan to buy and restore the abandoned Michigan Central Station as a hub for its future mobility ventures.

“Our expertise is in taking complex issues and giving context and clarity in story form,” said Moore, winner of a duPont-Columbia Award for Beyond the Light Switch, a 2011 DPTV documentary about the nation’s energy infrastructure. Moore’s documentaries, including Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain, have aired nationally on PBS, and his work has appeared on PBS NewsHour and SciTech Now.