Thursday 14 January 2010

[creative-radio] Media in Support of Haiti

 

Internews to Deploy Media Assistance in Support of Haiti's Information
Needs During Humanitarian Disaster

http://ow.ly/WE1S

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In Haiti earthquake coverage, social media gives victim a voice | Media |
guardian.co.uk

http://ow.ly/WE4N

[excerpt see website for embedded links]

With many of the official lines of communication down, user-generated
content played an important role yesterday in spreading news about the
Haiti earthquake. Social media partly made up for the lack of information
from the affected area on what had happened and what was most needed.

Twitterfeeds gave an impressive picture of the ongoing earthquake, and the
Guardian's live blog on the rescue mission used social media as well as
information from other news organisations. The BBC also covered the event
combining tweets from the area with the work of its reporter Matthew Price
in Port-au-Prince.

However, the news organisation with the most material on the quake at
present looks to be CNN. It has seven reporters on the ground – but is
still significantly enriching their work with social media.

"We immediately moved someone supervising social media and our iReports to
the Haiti desk," said Nick Wrenn, vice president of CNN International
Digital Services.

It's now almost two years since CNN decided officially that iReport – a
section of its website where people can upload video material, with
contact information – and social media should become a legitimate source
for its newsgathering.

In the Haiti crisis, CNN has published a selection of social media
material, making clear what isn't verified. This user generated content is
set apart from vetted postings, which are labelled differently and used in
the same way as any other verified source.

Despite communications being down in Haiti, by yesterday evening 218 quake
iReports from Haiti were sent to CNN, with 17 being vetted by CNN, and
additional 212 reports of missing loved ones, with 13 of them being
verified, CNN said. Two of their iReporters did live interviews.

Missionaries, says CNN, shared some of the first images they saw of people
affected by the quake, and the conditions they're in. Brian Cory, who CNN
got hold of via iReport, connected the news organisation with his
mother-in-law in Haiti, who took the photos.

Yesterday, CNN's iReport had 1.4 million page views, a 240% increase over
an September-October benchmark; the usual traffic is between 200,000 and
400,000 page views per day.

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[creative-radio] AMARC condemns attack on radio Coco Dulce de Honduras

 

AMARC condemns attack on radio Coconut Dulce de Honduras

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) expressed
strongly condemn the attack suffered by the Honduran community station
Falun Bimetu (Coconut Sweet), belonging to the Afro-Caribbean Garifuna.

AMARC repudia atentado contra radio Coco Dulce de Honduras

La Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC) expresó su más
enérgico rechazo al atentado sufrido por la emisora comunitaria hondureña
Faluma Bimetu (Coco Dulce), perteneciente a la comunidad afro-caribeña
garífuna

http://ow.ly/WD0L

[Google translation below]

AMARC's statement detailed that on Wednesday, 6 January during the
morning, a group of strangers entered the studios of the station, looted
their equipment and fire facilities.

Because of the losses, Radio Coco Dulce remains unable to resume its
airtime to rebuild facilities and restore the expensive equipment.

The station is located in the community of Triunfo de la Cruz, Tela Bay,
the Atlantic coastal region of Honduras, and was spreading a campaign
against the installation of a tourism project that would affect the lives
of people originally from the area.

AMARC said the director of radio, Alfredo Lopez, "linked the attack to the
campaign that stopped the real estate project promoted by the authorities
and rejected by the villagers.

The statement also points out that Lopez was arrested by soldiers and
policemen in Tegucigalpa on 12 August 2009 as a result of opposition to
the coup in Honduras.

Finally, the World Association of Community Radio "to the State of
Honduras demand clarification and conviction of those responsible for this
attack."

It also requires "the full force and guarantee of the right to freedom of
expression for all Honduran citizens and the Garifuna community in
particular." (PULSAR)

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[creative-radio] Developing Dialogues - Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia (new book by Intellect)

 

Developing Dialogues
Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia

By Susan Forde, Kerrie Foxwell and Michael Meadows

ISBN 9781841502755 | Paperback | £19.95, $35
Now Available
Imprint: Intellect


ABOUT THE TITLE
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic
community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally
to chart the rise of its new relationship.

Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia, the
authors
argue that community radio and television worldwide represents an essential
service for indigenous and ethnic audiences, empowering them at various
levels, fostering "active citizenry" and enhancing the processes of
democracy. The authors, former journalists, spent months on the road,
traveling tens of thousands of kilometers from urban centres to the most
remote regions of the Central Desert to ask why they engage with and adapt
local broadcast media. They draw on two decades of primary research
material
taken from face-to-face interviews and focus-group discussions with
audiences. Consequently, 'Developing Dialogues' offers international
researchers a new social, cultural and historical perspective on the
emergence of the unique Australian community broadcasting sector within the
context of other global trends. It will appeal to scholars of media and
cultural studies, as well as to industry practitioners and policy makers.


ABOUT THE EDITORS
Dr Susan Forde is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the Centre for Public
Culture and Ideas in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Griffith
University.

Kerrie Foxwell is Associate Lecturer in Media, Communication and Youth
Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Michael Meadows is Associate Professor of Journalism, School of Humanities
at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.


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