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Hello Newsroom Heroes!
Welcome to the third edition of News You Can Use, designed to help support local media across the Pioneer PBS viewing area. Each edition includes free, publication ready content you can use in print, online or on-air. Our goal is simple: provide quality regional content that may be useful to your newsroom while highlighting the people, places and stories that make our communities unique.
Use whatever fits your publication or station - there’s no cost or obligation. If there are resources or story types you’d like to see included, I’d welcome your feedback.
In this edition of News You Can Use, we are featuring the story behind a new Pioneer PBS Documentary, Lost Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Health Institutions which premieres October 15th. This historical documentary premiering on Pioneer PBS explores one of the least discussed chapters in Minnesota history while honoring the people whose courage helped change it.
We are also featuring Hiseerie, a series exploring the lore of haunted spaces around the Pioneer PBS region. Hiseerie season threepremieres in October with five new episodes.
Included in the files are photographs from the filming of the documentaries, pre-written social media posts you can easily copy/paste to share your website article links online, the human interest style story, as well as links and QR codes for related content.
Lastly, we are featuring Passport benefits! This is not a timely article and can be used any time you need to fill space.
Thank you for all you do to help share local stories!
This media toolkit has been created to make it easy for newspapers, radio stations, television stations and digital publishers to use Pioneer PBS content in print, online and on-air coverage.
For generations thousands of Minnesota families carried stories they rarely shared. Stories of friends and family who quietly disappeared behind the walls of state hospitals. Others belonged to the nurses, attendants, reporters, clergy and everyday citizens who witnessed conditions they believed no human being should endure and chose to speak up. Those intertwined stories are at the heart of Lost Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Health Institutions, a new historical documentary premiering on Pioneer PBS that explores one of the least discussed chapters in Minnesota history, while honoring the people whose courage helped change it.
Hiseerie returns for its third season and will once again travel to haunted landmarks, forgotten cemeteries, infamous crime scenes and places where the unexplained has become part of the local folklore from the historic Warden’s House in Stillwater, Minnesota, to Iowa’s mysterious Black Angels, the site of the famous Val Johnson UFO encounter near Stephen, Minnesota, and finally to Plainfield, Wisconsin, where the crimes of Ed Gein forever changed true crime history.
For generations, viewers have planned their evenings around their favorite PBS programs. Today, however, many are discovering they don’t have to. Through Pioneer PBS Passport, eligible station members can enjoy thousands of hours of PBS programming whenever it works for them. Whether it’s catching up on an episode that aired last week, revisiting a favorite series from years past or discovering something entirely new, Passport gives viewers the freedom to watch on their own schedule.
