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The Record Librarian’s Domain

On February 15, 2006 · View Comments

Nick Ver Steegh, manager of the KRLX record library in Northfield, Minnesota, gives an audio tour of his favorite place on Earth. Musk, weird growths, and the dusty haze of a half century of vinyl provide the backdrop for this interview.

Produced in conjunction with Emily Schwing of KRLX’s Periscope production staff. Photo by [...]

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Northfield News Feature

On January 18, 2006 · View Comments

Now in his third and final year as head of the station, [Cameron Nordholm] credited streaming audio – which allows listeners to tune in worldwide by visiting krlx.org – with changing the focus of a station that has been on the air since 1948.

Song requests from listeners in Minneapolis are regular [...]

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Town and Gown Bridges: Locally Grown

On December 17, 2005 · View Comments

In December of 2005 I made the fateful decision to contact the then current head of Northfield.org, a community-driven website for the city of Northfield, Minnesota. Griff Wigley was a direct, funny, and engaging advocate of citizen journalism and we hit it off well, quickly coming to an agreement to merge his [...]

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What Happened to the Miscellany?

On November 21, 2005 ·

This audio piece, recorded and produced with Emily Schwing (NPR News, Carleton College ’05), examines the history of the Carleton Miscellany through an interview with and poetry reading by Mike Kowaleski of the Carleton College English Department. The teaser:

In its heyday, The Carleton Miscellany was a contemporary, avante-garde and unpretentious compilation of some [...]

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Radio Best Practices Project

On September 10, 2005 · View Comments

In the Fall of 2005 the staff at KRLX-FM in Northfield, Minnesota began an overhaul of the then skimpy training materials used to educate upcoming on-air staff. Previously training had been primarily ad-hoc and informal, relyintg mostly on the immediate memory of staff at hand.

We decided to change this by writing a comprehensive [...]

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KRLX-FM Convergence Platform

On February 13, 2004 · View Comments

After assuming the position of Producer at KRLX-FM in Northfield, MN, I went straight to work building it’s web presence, then non-existent. By 2003 it was painfully clear that the station needed to incorporate digital content into its repertoire in order to remain relevant in a student sea of early adopters. [...]

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