Margin Media and the Finding Sanctuary Multi-Media Production

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NFCB, Community Counts, Bader Award

Sue Schardt is a recognized public media trail blazer who has successful developed initiatives to support greater diversity in public media and to expand coverage to more people in local communities across the United States. In her capacity as president of SchardtMEDIA and, more recently, as executive producer of Localore and CEO of AIR, she is sought out as an expert presenter by media organizations across the United States and overseas. She was among those invited to the Kiev by Ukrainian national public broadcasting leaders interested in the formation of non-profit media in the United States; in Moscow, her remarks focused on podcasting and emerging media innovation and, in Melbourne, her presentation was among those concerned with creating successful, co-collaborative productions. Closes to home, Schardt has been an active advisor to and participate with the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Greater Public, the Public Radio Program Directors Association (PRPD), Public Media Journalists’ Association (PMJA), and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). The latter recognized Schardt with a lifetime achievement award in 2018.

More on NFCB: NFCB has enhanced the impact of community media while fostering innovation in public media services. The organization supports local radio stations through a suite of customized services that range from education and representation offerings to organizational consulting and peer-to-peer exchange. The NFCB also leads initiatives, such as the Community Counts program, an effort designed to strengthen service sustainability amongst community radio stations in a time of evolving technology and limited resources. The program, which spans 18 months, provides a blend of expert-led training and peer-based learning to 10 radio stations who meet eligibility requirements and complete an application process. Visit https://nfcb.org


For more on PRPD, visit https://prpd.org/

For more on PMJA, visit https://www.pmja.org/

For more on Greater Public, visit https://www.greaterpublic.org/

For more on Third Coast International Audio Festival, visit https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/

For more about Sue Schardt, visit https://www.MarginMedia.org

Compassionate Journalism

Media influencer Sue Schardt has close to 30 years of experience in communications and has been the executive producer of Localore since 2010. Sue Schardt is currently operating an independent production group, MarginMedia.org, to continue to develop new collaborative work with a diverse range of people living in local communities. 

In a recent post, she muses about compassion, reflecting back on a childhood fainting spell and the tenderness of her elementary school principal. Schardt continues, then, describing her experience with the Red Cross food pantry, and the Boston public city school teachers who line up in their cars to collect and transport food to the homes of their students across the city during this time of hardship.

This emphasis on compassion in a time of pandemic connects to Schardt's approach to journalism and public media. In a 2017 report to the public media field, “Break Form, Making Stories with and for the People, the ethos of Localore is expressed in the view that the core tenants of journalism - fairness, objectivity, and balance - also includes love.

Today, Schardt believes even more strongly that today's chaos and strife present tremendous challenges to those we entrust to bring us the news, and that journalists who lead with compassion are key in confronting the rampant cruelty and divisiveness that mark our present reality.