Sunday 11 March 2012

[creative-radio] Cité Soleil in mourning for murdered community radio station manager

http://en.rsf.org/haiti-cite-soleil-in-mourning-for-06-03-2012,42000.html

Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened by the news that radio
journalist *Jean Liphète Nelson* was gunned down yesterday in Cité Soleil,
the poorest neighbourhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The manager of Radio Boukman, http://www.radioboukman.com/ a community and
educational radio station based in Cité Soleil, Nelson was widely respected
for his humanitarian commitment to serving the inhabitants of this
politically sensitive district. Aged 38, he was the father of five children.

"We had several meetings with Nelson and the staff of *Radio Boukman*, the
station he helped to found in June 2006," Reporters Without Borders said.
"He was totally committed to his community and had told us of his desire to
change the perception of Cité Soleil, which is too often seen as just the
bastion of criminal gangs.

"Through *Radio Boukman* and the various social programmes he oversaw, he
wanted to improve the situation and status of a segment of the population
that tends to be ostracized. Radio Boukman also played a crucial role as a
relay of information during the January 2010 earthquake.
http://en.rsf.org/haiti-media-slowly-resurfacing-12-04-2010,36993.html We
hope the station's young staff will be able to consolidate and advance this
heritage. We also hope that justice will be quickly rendered to Nelson and
his family and that he will receive the tribute he deserves from the
Haitian government."

Nelson and four other people were driving in a *Radio Boukman* vehicle in
Bois Neuf, a part of Cité Soleil, when they came under fire from four
heavily armed individuals. One of the passengers, Alexandre Marcus, was
killed on spot. Nelson's young brother, Jean Robert Nelson, was hit in the
leg. Nelson, who was also hit, was taken to a Médecins Sans Frontières
hospital where he died of his injuries soon afterwards. The news of his
death caused tension in Cité Soleil.

There is as yet no evidence that Nelson's murder was definitely linked to
his work. But this possibility must not be ruled out on the grounds that
there has of late been an increase in this kind of violence in the capital.
Nelson was a well known and recognisable figure in Cité Soleil, where and
his radio station may have threatened the interests of certain criminal
gangs.


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[creative-radio] KONARK Odisha's Community Radio Saves Lives and Livelihoods

*KONARK, India, Feb 10, 2012 (IPS) - Fisher Wanka Masani, 25, has been
inseparable from his two- dollar transistor ever since a community radio
(CR) station started up in this coastal town. The square black box blares
popular songs while Masani waits for his brothers to land the daily catch.*
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106712
[excerpt]
Radio Namaskar http://radionamaskar.org/ (the traditional Indian greeting),
on the air since February 2010, offers much more than entertainment to the
2,000 active fishers from a 10,000-strong settlement of mud hut dwellers
along Odisha state's Chandrabhaga coastline on the Bay of Bengal.

Cyclonic storms often threaten the fragile vessels of the fishers, and
their lives. Television weather forecasts are unreliable because power
supply in these parts is erratic.

"Radio Namaskar broadcasts high wind and cyclone warnings at short
intervals; its range extends 35 km out into the sea," says Gengri Mania,
40, who carries a radio when he accompanies his brother-in-law on fishing
trips.

Heavy rains and high floods often leave families stranded and huddling on
rooftops, sometimes for days together, as happened in the Gop
administrative block in September 2011.

"Radio Namaskar's dedicated mobile phone line was a life-saver," says Ali
Akbar Shah, 37, whose house was among the first to be hit by a huge body of
water when the Kushabhadra river embankment was breached.

Shah managed to grab a brace of seven mobile phone sets from his mobile
repair shop with which he kept up staedy communication with the CR on all
the three days that he and his neighbours were stranded on rooftops.


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[creative-radio] University of the Philippines (UP)'s campus radio Turns Grassroots Voice

Campus Radio Turns Grassroots Voice
By Kara Santos*
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107029
[excerpt]
*MANILA, Mar 11, 2012 (IPS) - Since it first hit the airwaves more than 50
years ago, the University of the Philippines (UP)'s campus radio has
evolved into a community broadcaster, serving as the voice of the people. *

DZUP <http://www.dzup.org/>1602 Khz, the UP's radio station, does not just
air the voice of students and the academic community but also allows
grassroots groups and the marginalised to use it as a platform for social
change.

Josefina Santos, DZUP's station manager, says the radio station started in
1957 as an "an experiment" of the UP's college of engineering and the
college of arts and sciences.

The station played a crucial role during the leftist unrest in the country
and allowed students to voice their concerns during the years before the
1972 declaration of martial law by then president Ferdinand Marcos,
cracking down on protests and agitations.

"Sometime in the late 60s until the 70s, before martial law, it really
became the voice of the university and a dissenting voice of the people who
really were for social change," says Santos.

"When martial law was declared, one of the first stations that the military
went after was DZUP. They destroyed all the equipment and UP went off the
air," says Santos.
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[creative-radio] Resource for journalists covering youth violence: includes tipsheets and videos

 

New resource from Dart Center for journalists covering youth violence:
includes tipsheets and videos
http://dartcenter.org/getting-it-right-reporting-on-youth-violence made
possibly by the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health with
additional support from the Stoneleigh Foundation, convened a wide range of
national and local mental health and policy experts, award-winning
journalists, educators and violence prevention advocates and grassroots
activists. Participation was open to working reporters, editors,
photographers, producers or bloggers for print, broadcast or online media
based in or around the Greater Philadelphia area.

Event Video Archive

- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
High Impact Local
Reporting<http://dartcenter.org/content/high-impact-local-reporting-0>

By Acel Moore, Kristen Graham, and Susan Snyder

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," Philadelphia journalists talk about their
most important stories on youth violence.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
No Estamos Solos: We Are Not
Alone<http://dartcenter.org/content/no-estamos-solos-we-are-not-alone>

By Stephen Franklin

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," Stephen Franklin, ethnic news director of the
Community Media Workshop, discusses covering youth violence in ethnic
communities in Chicago.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
The Public Health
Approach<http://dartcenter.org/content/public-health-approach>

By Kenneth Ginsburg, M.D., Sandra L. Bloom, M.D., Emily F. Rothman,
Sc.D., and Gary Slutkin, M.D.

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," four public health experts discuss how their
discipline can inform journalism.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
Visual Storytelling on Youth
Violence<http://dartcenter.org/content/visual-storytelling-on-youth-violence>

By Donna DeCesare, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Hank Willis Thomas, and James
Estrin

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," experience photographers talk about their
different approaches.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
The City Government
Perspective<http://dartcenter.org/content/city-government-perspective>

By Everett Gillison, J.D. and Elisabeth Perez-Luna

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," Everett Gillison, deputy mayor for public
safety of the city of Philadelphia discusses how to reduce youth violence.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
Violence Prevention: Policy and
Practice<http://dartcenter.org/content/violence-prevention-policy-and-practice>

By Marla Davis Bellamy, J.D., M.G.A., Brandon T. Jones, and Jamira Burley

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," advocates working on the ground in
Philadelphia talk about what works.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
The Gun Factor: Tracking, Access and
Investigation<http://dartcenter.org/content/gun-factor-tracking-access-and-investigation>

By James V. Grimaldi

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," investigative reporter James Grimaldi talks
about reporting on guns.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
Interrupting Violence in Chicago and
Philadelphia<http://dartcenter.org/content/interrupting-violence-in-chicago-and-philadelphia>

By Gary Slutkin, M.D., David Fattah, and Falacca Fattah

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," experienced violence interrupters talk about
their experiences.
- Event Video

Feb 27 2012
The Adverse Childhood Experiences
Study<http://dartcenter.org/content/adverse-childhood-experiences-study>

By Robert Anda, M.D.

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right:
Reporting on Youth Violence," Robert Anda, M.D. presents the stunning
findings from a CDC study of the effects of adverse experiences in early
childhood.
- Tip Sheets Archive
- Tip Sheet

Feb 20 2012
Covering Youth Violence: Lessons from a Local
Investigation<http://dartcenter.org/content/covering-youth-violence-lessons-from-local-investigation>

By Susan Snyder and Kristen Graham

In this tipsheet from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it
Right: Covering Youth Violence," Susan Snyder and Kristen Graham give
advice on how to investigate youth violence.
- Tip Sheet

Feb 24 2012
Youth Violence, with a Public Health
Frame<http://dartcenter.org/content/youth-violence-with-public-health-frame>

By Stan Alcorn

This tipsheet from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it
Right: Reporting on Youth Violence" condenses the advice of public health
experts who spoke at the workshop.
- Materials Archive
-

Feb 24 2012
Networking Groups Contact
Information<http://dartcenter.org/content/networking-groups-contact-information-0>

Contact information for networking groups present at the 2011 Dart
Center workshop "Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence."
-

Feb 24 2012
Speaker Contact
Information<http://dartcenter.org/content/speaker-contact-information-0>

Contact information for speakers at the the 2011 Dart Center workshop
"Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence."
- Event Agenda

Feb 16 2012
Workshop Agenda <http://dartcenter.org/content/workshop-agenda-1>

Agenda for the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right: Reporting on
Youth Violence."

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