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Great Question!

 

CapRadio's Great Question! is where we invite you to be part of the reporting process. All we need from you is your curiosity about our region.

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What Do You Wonder About The Sacramento Region And The People Who Call It Home? We Want To Know!

  •  Kacey Sycamore 
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 | Sacramento, CA
Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio

From left to right, the Sacramento Tree Foundation's Torin Dunnavant, reporter Randol White, question asker Jennifer Drayton and research ecologist Paula Peper talk about Sacramento's tree canopy in Drayton's Arden Park backyard.

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Imagine if you had a role in choosing what stories we follow, even before we start reporting them.

What you’d get would be a piece of reporting inspired by your own curiosity about the world around you combined with the insights of the journalists at CapRadio.

That’s the idea behind a project we recently launched called Great Question. It’s a new way for you to talk to us about what’s interesting or concerning about Sacramento and the surrounding region.

Is there something you’ve always wondered about your neighborhood? Some little pattern or quirk about Northern California that sparked your curiosity? Or maybe you heard something in the news or from a friend that made you scratch your head.

Whether your questions are big or small, light or hard-hitting, we want to hear from you.

The idea is simple: You send in your questions and our journalists, trained at finding answers, will work with you to investigate them.

So far, we’ve worked with a listener to dig into the history of Sacramento’s trees, and we’ve begun tracking down answers to questions about what PG&E’s move toward bankruptcy will mean for their 16 million customers.

By involving you from the beginning, we get to better understand what information is meaningful to the people who live here. The result is reporting that we know is relevant to our community before we even start reporting.

Here’s how it works:

  1. You send in your questions using the form below. (For example: What can I recycle in Sacramento? How do California ballot propositions get their numbers? Do the foothills get more smoke from wildfires?)
  2. We’ll group them into themes and ask you to vote on which one we should tackle next.
  3. Then we’ll assign a reporter to the task and work to include the question-asker in the process.
  4. And finally: we share the answer!

We think this is going to be fun. But, more importantly, we think we’re going to learn a lot. Because we know you have great questions.


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 Great Question!

Kacey Sycamore

Former Interactive Producer

Kacey joined Capital Public Radio as an interactive producer in January 2018. Before CapRadio, she worked as the communications coordinator for North State Public Radio in Chico, CA. She studied journalism at California State University, Chico.  Read Full Bio 

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