Community Radio Around the World: August 2010

Monday, 30 August 2010

[creative-radio] Re: Audacious and awesome new book about Youth Radio

GREAT FIND GEORGE

I'd be interested to see what others in the group think about this email from NFCB when I attempted to help them see that we could help them revive their youth radio program.

"Teaching young people how to do radio doesn't seem particularly relevant."

still makes me nutz after all these months I've held on to this email... read on...
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Jeff--this is a very generous offer. But. I'm not sure this is much of a priority for us now. Teaching young people how to do radio doesn't seem particularly relevant. More relevant would be teaching adults how to do digital media. So what did you have in mind?

Ginny Z. Berson
Vice President and Director of Federation Services
National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB)
510 451-8200 ext. 305
1970 Broadway, Suite 1000
Oakland, CA 94612
www.nfcb.org
Save the dates: June 9-12, 2010 in St. Paul, Minnesota for the 35th Annual Community Radio Conference

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hylton Simmons [mailto:jeff@radio23.org]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 2:17 PM
To: Ginny Z. Berson
Subject: Re: National Youth in Radio Training Project Conference?

I can offer support as I believe youth education in radio is essential
to it's survival.

Please contact me if there is any way we can help, I would like to
have the next Youth Conference in Portland in 2011 - what should be
the goal for fundraising to make this happen?

Thank you for your time; excited to bring back this important element
of NFCB!

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Crowdsourced: The Top Ten Tips For Using Social Media in Radio.

Crowdsourced: The Top Ten Tips For Using Social Media in Radio

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[creative-radio] The Uses of Social Media in Disasters NPR WEBINAR Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

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Webinar Registration
Please join us on Tuesday, August 31 from 3pm-4pmET for the next in a
series of SAFER webinars designed to help stations prepare for local and
regional emergencies. "The Use of Social Media in Disasters" will be
co-hosted by Andy Carvin (Senior Strategist, Social Media Desk, NPR) and
David Stephenson (Stephenson Strategies and SAFER Emergency Consultant).
The discussion will include how to integrate social media tools into
disaster-response planning; social media best practices in disasters; and
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Sunday, 29 August 2010

[creative-radio] Audacious and awesome new book about Youth Radio

RT @creative_radio: RT @NFCB: Audacious and awesome new book about Youth
Radio, our neighbors here in #Oakland! Recommended read!

http://ow.ly/2woV1

[excerpt, see embedded links at url]

Anyone who wants to launch or sustain a media project that engages young
people and amplifies their voices should read Drop That Knowledge, a new
book about Youth Radio written by Elisabeth Soep and Vivian Chavez. Lissa
Soep is a longtime Youth Radio staff member who has developed the
program's training framework and curricula. Vivian Chavez is a alumna of
Youth News, a forerunner to Youth Radio.

Youth Media International, as it is currently re-branding, is one of the
oldest and most successful youth media programs in the country. It's a
public media treasure. As founder Ellin O'Leary writes in the epilogue,
"Our mandate is to prepare young people to maintain and reinvent
journalism's best principles, so that they can deploy today's new tools
and platforms to speak truth to power, to cultivate credible soures, to
tell the story no one else is telling, and to create art and report on
emerging trends and culture."

At Youth Radio, adolescents, teens and young adults get the basics of
media production and much, much more: media literacy, leadership training,
critical thinking, group process, negotiation, peacemaking. They learn by
listening but mostly by doing. Once they develop their wings, some of
these producers soar, experimenting with nontraditional storytelling
techniques and providing fresh perspectives on issues that hit closest to
home: public education, neighborhood violence, teenage pregnancy, racial,
gender, national and sexual identity.

Drop That Knowledge explains the guiding philosophy of Youth Radio - the
model of "converged literacy" which is defined as "an ability to make and
understand boundary-crossing and convention breaking texts...knowing how
to draw and leverage public interest in the stories you want to
tell...[having the] imaginative resources to claim and exercise your right
to use media to promote justice." At Youth Radio, young people are
respected as the experts of their own experience, who not only find their
voice, but are empowered to use it responsibly, meaningfully, and
effectively.

I'm a longtime admirer of Youth Radio. I worked with some of its reporters
when I produced national news at Pacifica, and I visited the group's
Oakland headquarters for the first time earlier this year. Even so, I must
admit that I learned so much in the 200-plus pages of this book that I
didn't already know.

It's fascinating to read between the lines of some of Youth Radio's most
visible and successful stories that aired on NPR and PRI. How did these
pieces come together; what was the role of the reporter versus the editor;
how did youth and adults collaborate; what kind of dynamic ensued as harsh
truths are shared, or stereotypes are reinforced or debunked in a 4-minute
audio essay that would carry the burden of being The Voice of Youth on a
particular issue.

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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

[creative-radio] Stray bullet kills director of only community radio station in Mogadishu

Stray bullet kills Mr. Barqad Awale Adan director of Xurmo the only
community radio station in Mogadishu

http://ow.ly/2unsP

A veteran Somali journalist who was the director of Xurmo the only
community radio station in Mogadishu Mr. Barqad Awale Adan has on Tuesday
died after a stray bullet has got him on the heart.

Late Barqad was on top of a three story building at KM5 intersection where
he was assessing a fierce battle taking between the Somali government
soldiers gaining military support from the African Union troops in
Mogadishu and the rival Al-Shabab faction which is an Islamist faction
which controls the majority of the southern and the central regions of
Somalia.

The death of Mr.Barqad was verified for allvoices by the deputy director
of Xurmo Mr. Dahir Fidow.

"I assure you the death of my collogue Mr. Barqad Awale Adan, and please I
cannot continue talk after this due to my raising emotions" said Dahir

Late Barqad is among the few former journalists who used to work in radio
Mogadishu a government controlled radio station in the heydays who are in
now in Mogadishu which once used to be the pride of Africa, but now the
humility of Africa.

The entire family of Somali journalists is sending their heartfelt
condolence to the sudden death of late Barqad Awale Adan who was their
colleague, and are saying my God rest his soul in eternal peace amen.

Al-Shabab has on Monday declared battle against the African Union troops
on the ground and the fragile Somali government which controls a few
blocks in the city, and since the that announcement made by the Al-Shabab
spokesman there were clashes in Mogadishu from dawn to dusk beside this
ongoing clashes there was a suicide attack in hotel where there were top
government officials Members of parliament and this suicide attack so far
7 MPs have died.

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[creative-radio] Joint appeal by AMARC, PPF for setting up community radio stations in flood-hit Pakistan area

Joint appeal by AMARC, PPF for setting up community radio stations in
flood-hit Pakistan areas

http://ow.ly/2uanK

Kathmandu, Nepal, The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC) and the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) appeal to the Government
of Pakistan and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to
allow setting up of emergency community radio stations in areas that have
suffered from the current floods in Pakistan.

We call upon all concerned agencies in Pakistan to be flexible and
responsive to proposals for the establishment of community based
broadcasting mechanisms so that any information gap that exists among the
affected people is fulfilled and relief operations are made highly
effective. AMARC offers its knowledge and expertise in setting up
emergency broadcasting mechanisms, gathered from working around the world
in similar situations of natural disasters. The important role of
community radio in times of natural disaster for aiding relief operations
as well as for supporting rehabilitation and rebuilding has been proven
many times over. The recent examples of the positive power of community
radio was seen in the earthquakes of Haiti and Chile where AMARC played an
important role in facilitating the setting up of emergency broadcasting
stations.

It was not so long ago that community radios were brought to the forefront
of the efforts to provide relief and rehabilitate those affected by the
tsunami and floods in Indonesia. AMARC and PPF highly appreciate the
valuable work being carried out by radio stations in the flood affected
areas. There is a need to complement theses efforts by bridging the gaps
of information at the very local levels and among displaced peoples. This
can be effectively achieved by setting up emergency community radio
stations. AMARC, PPF and all other AMARC members in Pakistan offer sincere
condolences to the families of those that have perished in the floods in
Pakistan. We offer our solidarity and prayers to those that have suffered
huge emotional and material losses and extend our support to those that
are engaged in helping the affected.

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Saturday, 21 August 2010

[creative-radio] Film and Television Institute of India community radio beams over Pune

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Film and Television Institute of India community radio beams over Pune
http://ow.ly/2sXgu

Press Trust of India, Updated: August 21, 2010 12:37 IST

Pune: If you have something to communicate that has a social relevance
and artistic value, think of going on air without the cumbersome
formalities of an official media broadcast.

This is the message being spread by the "Community Radio" station that has
been beaming from the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India
(FTII) here.

What started as social interactive sessions of the institute's students
has spread its wings with the FTII radio network launching daily radio
capsules on a variety of topics from June this year, inviting
participation from different segments of the city population which has
touched the five-million mark.

"Individual groups, schools, NGOs, budding and creative artistes are
invited to present their views and skills on FTII Community Radio where
formalities like an audition test are not required," said Sanjay
Chandekar, who heads the station.

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[creative-radio] Call / Centre for Art Tapes / Audio Art for Radio / Halifax, NS

Call for Submissions / Centre for Art Tapes / Audio Art for Radio / Halifax,
NS / Deadline Date: Friday, October 1, 2010

Broadcasting for Reels: Success Through Failure

Sometimes you can't do something right without doing it wrong.
A mistake can be an unplanned act of genius. Getting
hopelessly lost can set you on the right path.

Broadcasting For Reels is seeking works of audio art that
address the idea of "Success Through Failure." Chosen entries
will be aired on CKDU-FM in Halifax and distributed to community
radio stations throughout Canada.

Broadcasting For Reels is an audio art project presented
annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. The project
accepts new audio work no more then one year old up to a
maximum of 10 minutes in length. Works should be submitted as
an audio CD or as a data file (wav, aiff or mp3) via email, web
transfer or disc. Only those selected will be notified. If you would
like your submission returned to you please include a self
addressed, stamped envelope.

Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. Artist fees will be
paid.

Send submission with current CV and artist statement to:
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville Street, Rm. 207
Halifax, NS B3J 1L2

or
cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca

For more information contact (902) 420-4002 or visit
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Friday, 20 August 2010

[creative-radio] West Bengal: Aachuley’ Lepcha indigenous peoples Community Radio

RT @creative_radio: KALIMPONG: Aachuley' Lepcha #indigenous peoples
Community Radio
http://ow.ly/2sIE5
Lepcha tribes of the Darjeeling District, West Bengal

[excerpt]

FROM LEPCHA AACHULAY MAGAZINE

99% of the indigenous Lepcha tribes live in remote villages where the
basic human facilities are non-existent.The literary rate of the Lepcha
tribes is the lowest among the various communities in this region. Without
proper education, they are living in the 19th Century today.
Marginalization of the original indigenous Lepcha tribes in West Bengal
has a telling effect on their socio- economic and political conditions. No
wonder anthropologists, linguists and scholars are repeatedly saying that
the original indiegenous Lepcha tribes are a vanishing tribal race.

Bollywood and western musical and cultural craze have not spare the Lepcha
community either. Beautiful and meaningful folksongs, folk music and
traditional cultural heritage seem unfashionable to many today. India is
known throughout the world for her varieties of ancient, rich and unique
languages, literature, culture, traditions, customs etc. People of the
world marvel at her. It is very important that the Lepcha tribes do not
falter in their thoughts and action and must endeavour to conserve their
very rich and ancient cultural heritage in Mayel Lyang.

Useful and important Government information is hard to come by in this
region, especially in the remote villages where the Lepcha tribes reside.
Take the example of 'Census of India 2011'. Most people in the remote
villages are not aware of the importance of Indian Census 2011 and how
each individual or the head of family at least could be immense help to
the Goverment of India in compiling the most important and correct census
in order to plan the future development works.

There are hundreds of problems for the Lepcha community in this region.
Each problem has its own solution. Through the community radio, we fimly
believe, it will not only help to communicate among the Lepcha tribes
better and solves problems, it certainly can help us to preserve,
conserve, maintain and develop the very rich, ancient and unique Lepcha
language, literature and cultural heritage for posterity. A Lepcha
Community Radio Station is a must for the original indigenous Lepcha
tribes in Kalimpong, the heartland of the Lepchas.

The long awaited cherished dream, hope and aspiration of the original
indigenous Lepcha tribes of the Darjeeling District, West Bengal of a
quality radio communications in their own language, is going to be
materialized and fulfilled soon. 'Panos Institute South Asia' is here to
help the Lepcha community of West Bengal to establish their own community
radio in Kalimpong.

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Thursday, 19 August 2010

Gram Vaani, meaning voice-of-the-village, is an initiative to empower rural communities through participatory media/community radio

Gram Vaani, meaning voice-of-the-village, is an initiative to empower rural communities through participatory media.

http://gramvaani.org/

We aspire to build an eco-system of information production and consumption by bringing together rural communities, development NGOs, regional and local government agencies, and national and vernacular news agencies. Together, we can give a voice to the rural population that can be heard across the nation. One of our prime areas of expertise is in community radio.

The latest!

The GRINS box plus software, our flagship product for community radio stations is now available. GRINS is an open-source radio automation system especially designed for rural communities in developing regions, to help run their radio stations easily and efficiently.