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The Public Insight Network at KQED allows you to share your experience directly with our newsroom. Whether it's your profession, your neighborhood, your hobbies, or that story you tell over and over again at dinner parties — you have knowledge we want. Become a Public Insight source and help keep the news real.

As a source for the Public Insight Network you can expect:

  • No more than one email a month. We'll regularly send out short questionnaires looking for background information and sources for stories we're working on.
  • An occasional follow-up. If you're a fit for a story, our editors and reporters will contact you by phone or email.
  • Confidentiality. We won't quote you (on-air or online) without your permission. We also won't ever use your information to seek donations or sell your information to a third party. Not even Ira Glass.
  • A direct line to the KQED Newsroom. While KQED accepts ideas and pitches from everyone, joining the Public Insight Network will expedite our communication and let you know about specific stories we're reporting on.
  • To have an impact. You'll not only inform KQED reporters and editors, but other newsrooms in the Public Insight Network as well.

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Here's what we're asking:

What do you think about the Sufi center slated to be built near Walnut Creek?

The Contra Costa Board of Supervisors hears public comments today regarding the building of a 66,000 sq. ft. religious center by a Sufi organization. What do you think of the proposed center? What impact, if any, will the center have on your life?

What are your thoughts on the federal government's settlement with the housing industry?

If you've lost your home to foreclosure, are currently under water or might be in either situation soon, KQED would like to hear from you. What are your thoughts on the federal government's settlement with the housing industry? What changes, if any, would you make to the deal?

Have you served time in prison? If so, KQED would like to hear about your experience.

As part of Forum's In My Experience series, KQED wants to hear from the formerly incarcerated. What was prison like? What challenges do you face as a felon on the outside? Is it possible to move past serving time?

Have you or a family member recently returned from serving in Iraq?

Help KQED cover the U.S.'s withdrawal from Iraq -- if you are a service member or have a service member in your family who has recently returned from Iraq, please tell us about your experience.

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