USA Today has launched longform podcast The City, which
features an augmented reality experience. The City tells stories of how power
works in urban America
Season one
of The City begins in Chicago Chicago
mob built a massive illegal construction debris dump in the black,
working-class neighborhood of North Lawndale .
The story reveals how this dump sparked an undercover FBI investigation and
features audio tapes that were made during the probe but withheld until
Gannett’s successful litigation against the FBI for their release earlier this
year, according to the release.
The podcast
is accompanied by a narrated AR experience that includes animation, archival
photographs and ambient sound, allowing listeners to explore the dump site as
it existed in 1992. The experience immerses users in North
Lawndale as the dump grows.
The City
won WNYC’s 2015 Podcast Accelerator competition to fund the pilot. To learn
more about the podcast, visit thecitypodcast.com.
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