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Hello, Upper Valley!

This week, we’re featuring discussions on the year’s inescapable topic: AI and its impact on arts, sports, media, and everything imaginable. At JAM, we try to show the human side of digital media –– for example, we occasionally include a segment called “Your Human Algorithm” on this newsletter. Every featurette includes a short interview of a JAM Staff member, each of whom makes our digital content creation engine run. 

Similarly, we’ve been having ongoing conversations on AI and its usage in our spaces. Our latest move has been to draft an AI policy –– we have decided to discourage the use of AI in our media education and Media Maker community. Read our policy and feel free to send us questions about it; we welcome all discussion on this ever-changing topic.

– Ana (Communications Coordinator)

This week's Upper Valley features

Cross-country running in the age of AI. How do you rank runners who never raced each other? Dartmouth Professor Bijan Mazaheri attempts to answer this question with LACCTiC, a program he built that compares competitive runners.

An NCAA Division III runner himself, Bijan discusses how AI can fall short when synthesizing information from multiple data sets, and why he believes the liberal arts will become more valuable as AI becomes further integrated into our lives. 10/3/26 Produced by Rick Russell for JAM.

With modern rock packaging, Insun Park stands out as one of the few female masters of the Gangnyeong Mask Dance, an artform designated as Korea’s National Intangible Heritage. Watch Park and the Generals give a joyful performance with musicians from Tuck’s Rock Dojo at the Lebanon Opera House. 9/30/26 Produced by Jordan Slusser & Jordyn Lich for JAM

Life, deeply examined. In this Norwich Bookstore author talk, poet Michael Brosnan attempts to find meanings or patterns in the great mystery of life in his book Pareidolia. “Pareidolia” is the ability to see pictures out of randomness (like a Rorschach test). 9/3/26 Produced by Richard Neugass, Jan Abbott & Rayce Gilbert for JAM.

Civic participation

Hanover Selectboard 10/5/26

Watch the Hanover Selectboard hear updates on the Crosby Street restoration project, discuss the approved improvements and revised construction schedules, and weigh options for road closures and timelines.

JAM provides gavel-to-gavel coverage of local government and school board meetings for our five coverage towns:

🟩 Hanover 🟦 Hartford 🟥 Hartland 🟪 Lebanon 🟨 Norwich

Creative community

Expand your media toolbox with... Intermediate Video Editing or Documentary Filmmaking in JAM's fall media ed courses for adults (16+). Whether you're dipping a toe or leveling up, these small-group workshops led by JAM staff flex to support your media-making goals.

Running Oct 15 - Nov 17 @ JAM

Spooktacular films about "Leaf Creepers..." at Halloween-o-thon, our annual scary movie competition and award ceremony! Our teams have been tasked to make "movies that make us feel like somebody's watching." Come in costume, and walk the Gory Daze parade right afterwards.

Mon Oct 31 6-7:30PM @ JAM

JAM Media Services

JAM provides diverse media services to the greater Upper Valley region of VT and NH and is often able to provide media coverage of community events for broadcast on JAM channels. JAM also provides professional for-hire media services for custom video and audio production needs. JAM broadcasts, streams, and archives local content on cable, and we support year-round live media coverage of public government and school board meetings as core to our public access service commitment. Learn more at uvjam.org.

JAM Media Services client spotlight: The Family Place hired JAM to create an interview-based overview of their organization. JAM can deliver completed media files to clients for use on their own social media channels, websites or other platforms. JAM staff are available for consultations on your media services needs.  

Thank you!

JAM relies on diverse funding sources to sustain our nonprofit community media services. We wish to thank the Comcast and VTel cable subscribers, voters in our service area towns, the State of Vermont, individual donors, local business sponsors, and public and private foundations who make our work possible. JAM media education programs and events are made possible in part by grants from VT Humanities, VT Arts Council, NH Charitable Foundation, Couch Family Foundation, M&T Bank Foundation, Jane B. Cook 1992 Trust, Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Adimab, LLC Community Grant, and charitable contributions from community members like you.

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