{ "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/for-agents", "code": "UES-208", "slug": "local-broadcast", "title": "Local Broadcast: Publish a Place", "status": "active", "frame": "Build a small, accountable local publication from field reporting, visual language, sound, metadata, community editing, and a clear promise to the place it serves.", "outcome": "One accessible six-item issue containing a dispatch, portrait, map, resource, image or audio card, and editor’s note, plus a reusable publishing kit.", "path": "/ues/local-broadcast", "jsonPath": "/ues/local-broadcast.json", "weeklyCommitment": { "selfGuidedStudioMinutes": 75, "fieldworkMinutes": { "minimum": 60, "maximum": 90 }, "reflectionMinutes": 20, "total": "About 2.5–3 hours per module" }, "access": [ "Every instruction is readable on the public course page; audio or video references require a transcript or equivalent text path.", "Every required prompt, scenario, rubric, and checklist is written on this course page; named sources are optional references, not missing course materials.", "Low-bandwidth, print-friendly syllabus with no paid platform or subscription required.", "No live attendance, camera, account, wallet, or public posting is required.", "Progress stays in this browser unless the learner chooses to download a private completion receipt.", "Remote archival, phone-reporting, and public-data beats when local field reporting is unavailable." ], "materials": [ "Browser and text editor", "Phone camera, audio recorder, sketchbook, or text-only reporting path", "One paper folder or local computer folder containing six numbered items, a sources file, credits, corrections note, and reusable blank copy", "No coding, domain purchase, or personal hosting account required" ], "instructorProfile": "A local editor, independent publisher, radio producer, or web producer able to teach reporting judgment, visual and audio editing, lightweight distribution, and accountable corrections.", "soloPath": "Act as a one-person newsroom in distinct reporting, editing, access, and production passes. Subject interviews are optional; public sources and self-authored field notes are sufficient.", "assignments": [ { "title": "Field dispatch", "dueWeek": 2, "brief": "Report and verify a 250-word local note with clear attribution, source links, location care, and one unresolved question." }, { "title": "Accessible media card", "dueWeek": 4, "brief": "Produce one image or audio card with caption, alt text or transcript, credits, rights, and compact metadata." }, { "title": "Local issue and publishing kit", "dueWeek": 6, "brief": "Complete the six-item issue through defined one-person production passes and leave a reusable blank workflow, feed mockup, correction path, and simulated handoff. Publication is optional." } ], "weeks": [ { "week": 1, "title": "Write the Editorial Promise", "question": "What does this publication owe the place and people it names?", "sourceShelf": [ "On-page editorial promise fields: place, intended reader, six beats, exclusions, evidence rule, voice, conflicts, correction path, and conditions for not publishing", "Independent neighborhood publication examples", "On-page corrections rule: preserve the original date, describe the material change, name the evidence, add a correction date, and never expose a protected source" ], "studio": "Define place, audience, beats, exclusions, evidence, voice, corrections, and the conditions under which the learner would not publish. A private issue remains fully complete.", "fieldTask": "Read the promise as a resident with no prior context and as a person named by the reporting but absent from it. Note what feels useful, missing, extractive, or repetitive; optional reader feedback may supplement the simulation.", "publicReceipt": "A one-page editorial promise and corrections contact." }, { "week": 2, "title": "Report, Listen, Verify", "question": "What makes a small local note trustworthy enough to pass along?", "sourceShelf": [ "Primary-source and on-the-record reporting prompts", "Public records, local calendars, direct observation, and attribution basics", "Location privacy and vulnerable-source boundaries" ], "studio": "Turn observation, document, public data, and an optional interview into a concise sourced dispatch without manufacturing certainty.", "fieldTask": "Report a 250-word local dispatch and verify every name, date, location, quote, and public claim.", "publicReceipt": "The finished dispatch, sources, attribution, and one clearly labeled unresolved question." }, { "week": 3, "title": "Make with Text, Image, and Sound", "question": "Which medium lets this local subject become more legible rather than merely more decorative?", "sourceShelf": [ "Photo essay, audio postcard, illustrated note, and data-card examples", "Any learner-made or public-domain local image, sound, drawing, or data card may be the reference; no particular archive is required", "Consent, credit, caption, transcript, and alt-text practices" ], "studio": "Build parallel versions of one local story as image, sound, and text, then choose the form that carries evidence best.", "fieldTask": "Make a self-authored or public-domain media element and preserve its original, rights, source, and context. A consented contribution from another person is optional.", "publicReceipt": "A media study showing the chosen and rejected format with editorial reasoning." }, { "week": 4, "title": "Structure the Issue", "question": "How can one issue remain useful on a phone, in print, in a feed, and after the platform changes?", "sourceShelf": [ "Semantic web page, RSS, JSON Feed, and printable digest basics", "On-page item fields: title, creator, publication date, update date, privacy-safe place, summary, format, rights, source links, credits, text alternative, and local filename", "Low-bandwidth and assistive-technology reading order" ], "studio": "Arrange dispatch, portrait, map, resource, media card, and editor’s note into one accessible issue system.", "fieldTask": "Finish the accessible media card and test its small-screen, transcript or alt-text, credit, and rights fields.", "publicReceipt": "The media card plus a compact metadata record." }, { "week": 5, "title": "Run the Community Edit", "question": "What review should this receive before any optional publication, and what power should outside responses carry?", "sourceShelf": [ "Fact, source, sensitivity, copy, art, and access edit passes", "Subject review versus editorial independence examples", "Corrections, takedown, update, and version-note policies" ], "studio": "Run distinct fact, source, sensitivity, copy, art, and access self-edit passes and log material changes. Optional editors may supplement these passes without becoming a completion requirement.", "fieldTask": "Run six named passes—fact, source, sensitivity, copy, art, and access—and log checked, changed, withheld, disclosed, and unresolved items. An optional community edit uses the same fields and counts equally.", "publicReceipt": "A redacted edit ledger showing checked, changed, disclosed, withheld, and unresolved items." }, { "week": 6, "title": "Publish, Distribute, Hand Off", "question": "Can the issue travel, be corrected, and be reproduced by another local team?", "sourceShelf": [ "On-page route test: review the issue as one long page, six separate cards, a plain-text email, and a black-and-white print outline; files alone are enough and nothing must go live", "Use the handoff-package fields in the solo toolkit and keep an original plus one backup when possible", "On-page stewardship split: keep 70 percent of the proven workflow, adapt 20 percent to local conditions, invent 10 percent, and name who can correct each part" ], "studio": "Test the issue locally in every route and format and rehearse a simulated handoff. Publication, distribution, and a real future-city handoff are optional.", "fieldTask": "Finish every defined one-person production pass, create the reusable publishing kit, and name the next local reporting question.", "publicReceipt": "A private-by-default six-item issue, feed mockup or portable export, credits, corrections path, source package, and simulated steward handoff; going live is optional." } ], "archiveWorkNumber": "373", "archiveCategory": "BROADCAST + PLACE", "connectsFrom": [ "UES-105", "UES-106", "UES-107", "UES-108" ], "budgetUsd": 3400, "addedProductionNeed": "Hosting, feed, archive, and lightweight publishing utilities.", "human": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues/local-broadcast", "catalog": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues", "fundingProgram": "https://pointcast.xyz/university-of-el-segundo", "participation": { "status": "active", "deliveryMode": "self-paced", "start": "anytime", "durationModules": 6, "learnerPriceUsd": 0, "requirements": { "account": false, "application": false, "deadlines": false, "liveAttendance": false, "wallet": false } }, "progressPolicy": { "storage": "local-browser-only", "syncsToServer": false, "identityStored": false, "learnerArtifactsStored": false, "note": "Only completion choices and timestamps are saved in this browser. The learner may reset them or download a private receipt." }, "optionalSupportedCohort": { "availableWhenFunded": true, "requiredForAccessOrCompletion": false, "note": "A scheduled cohort may add human review and facilitation, but it never gates the independent path." }, "completionReceipt": { "kind": "self-attested", "privateByDefault": true, "walletRequired": false, "onChain": false, "disclaimer": "The receipt is not academic credit, accreditation, verified identity, an on-chain credential, or a financial credential." }, "transactionPolicy": "Course browsing and participation are wallet-free. Tezos support is optional and requires separate explicit Mainnet review." }