Community Radio Around the World: 01/21/10

Thursday, 21 January 2010

[creative-radio] In Haiti, Signal FM staff keeps station running

RT @mediamentor: RT @helpingmedia: In Haiti, Signal FM staff keeps station
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outlets in Haiti please post a comment below or notify us via e-mail
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that will go directly to Haitian journalists.

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Signal FM is the only Haitian radio station to continuously broadcast
during and after the powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake that ravaged the
capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas on January 12. Signal's
online news service kept operating as well. The station's equipment,
located in Petionville (east of Port-au-Prince) remained in service,
withstanding, remarkably, tremors to the building and broadcasting
aerials. But the true credit goes to the station's staff members, who made
extraordinary efforts and great sacrifices to inform the public during a
period of chaos, the station's managing director, Mario Viau, told CPJ.

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[creative-radio] #Haiti: #RSF / Quebecor Media Operations Centre gets backing from Haitian government

RT @mediamentor: Reporters Sans Frontières & Quebecor Media Operations
Centre gets backing from Haitian government

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Published on 21 January 2010

Haiti's culture and communications minister, Marie-Laurence
Jocelyn-Lassègue, has given her support for the Media Operations Centre
installed in Port-au-Prince by Reporters Without Borders and Quebecor.
Their representatives are to meet with her in the capital this morning (at
9 a.m. local time) to discuss the way the centre will function and the
choice of journalists to run it.

The centre's mandate is to:
1- make the equipment that Haitian journalists need to work available to them
2- act as a place where they can meet their international colleagues
3- offer the various organisations that defend journalists in Haiti a
place where they can operate
4- act as a news centre for the various government authorities and NGOs
that want to address as many media as possible
5- advise and assist the government and its partners as regards
relaunching news media that were hit by the 12 January earthquake, both in
the capital and provinces, especially in the towns of Petit-Goâve,
Grand-Goâve and Léogâne, which were very badly affected.

Located on Cheriez Street in the Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of
Canapé-Vert, the centre has room for up to 20 journalists to work at any
one time, a news conference room that can hold 40 people and a terrace
that can hold 60 people. It will have broadband Internet, telephone lines,
an audio and video conference system, a satellite TV link and printers, as
well as facilities for journalists in distress.

Canada's governor-general, Mickaëlle Jean, plans to address a message in
Creole to the Haitian people via the centre tomorrow. We invite Haitian
President René Préval to hold a meeting with the press in the centre and
we hope that the presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers of the
countries with particularly close ties with Haiti will also chose this way
to make a concrete commitment to the reconstruction of the Haitian media.

According to Mark Harvey, leading the European response for Internews, an
international media development organization which has been designated by
UNOCHA to coordinate all international media assistance efforts to Haiti,
"Local journalists in Port-au-Prince are the vital link between the
humanitarian relief and the Haitian population who is desperate for
information. Haitian media professionals are struggling to get back to
their vital work, and the importance of the work of Reporters Without
Borders in helping to do this cannot be underestimated."

This centre belongs to Haiti's journalists. Its ability to continue
operating in the medium term will depend on the technical and financial
assistance it receives from other NGOs, international bodies and foreign
media.

Reporters Without Borders and Quebecor would finally like to pay tribute
to four journalists who died in the earthquake: Wanel Fils of Radio
Galaxie in Port-au-Prince, Franklin Laurent and Leiva Jasmin (disappeared)
of Radio Koha, and Bazelais Volcy of Radio Echo 2000 in Petit-Goâve.

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[creative-radio] Haiti: Feminist International Radio Endeavour

Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE),

http://www.radiofeminista.net/

an Internet grassroots feminist radio station based in Costa Rica, has
joined efforts with the NGO's Colectiva Mujer y Salud (Women & Health
Collective)

http://www.colectivamujerysalud.org/

and Center for the Investigation on Feminist Action (CIPAF),

http://www.cipaf.org.do/

both based in the Dominican Republic, to open the Feminist International
Solidarity Camp Myriam Merlet next week on the Haitian-Dominican Border.
The camp will have a Communications Center from where media activists will
help coordinate local media efforts.

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[creative-radio] Internews: Media Coordinating Relief in Haiti

RT @mediamentor: Internews: Media Coordinating Relief in Haiti - Pulitzer
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Summer Marion, Pulitzer Center
Images and video by Jennifer Glasse, Internews

"...Though a few local radio and TV stations were back on the air a few
days after the quake, "we don't know how much of [the content was] really
information about the response to the crisis," Frohardt explained in an
interview with NPR's On the Media.
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Many Haitian journalists are not at work; rebuilding homes, locating
family members and securing food have taken priority. Among Internews'
provisions are stipends covering local journalists' basic needs, allowing
them to return to work disseminating information to relief agencies and
affected populations...."

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[creative-radio] Haiti: Restoring Communications & Local Media Networks

RT @mediamentor: Haiti: Restoring Communications & Local Media Networks

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RT @mediamentor: AMARC list of #community #radio stations in #Haiti.

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The earthquake has caused extensive damage to communication systems
and other vital services. Among the many people directly affected are
community media workers and their families.

AMARC is conducting an urgent assessment of the status of community
broadcasting in the areas affected and is working to mobilize
resources and technical assistance. AMARC estimates that at least 12
community radio stations are located within the zones that have
suffered the most severe earthquake destruction. The full extent of
the impact is not yet known.

AMARC is calling on community broadcasters to support the
international relief effort by organizing airtime appeals and other
activities, and to provide direct assistance to community broadcasters
affected by the earthquake, including equipment donations and
financial support.

Even before this catastrophic disaster, Haiti faced enormous problems
of transport and communications infrastructure, access to electricity
and high rates of illiteracy. Community radio has developed, since
1992, as an essential part of Haiti's communications landscape,
reaching the poorest communities and enabling their participation in
development.