From the Alive in Baghdad podcast:
“Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi was born in 1984 on December 16th, he was killed on December 14th, 2007… Ali lived in Habibya, it’s considered as a part of the Sadr city. On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi National Guard forces raided the street where Ali’s house is, one [...]
The Ghana Media Advocacy Program (GMAP) is looking for journalists interested in interning in Ghana for three months from February through April 2008 on a reporting project investigating child trafficking in developing countries. Deadline: December 20.
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The Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (DCFRN) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) have launched the African Farmers’ Strategies for Coping with Climate Change, a scriptwriting competition for radio broadcasters. Deadline: March 15.
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The husband and sister of French journalist Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, her lawyer and the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders today told a press conference of their anxiety about the plight of French journalist and activist who is in the hands of the Vietnamese government.
The 51-year-old, from Haÿ les Roses in the Paris [...]
Radio 1812/2007 invites you to Tune in on International Migrants Day!
It is estimated that some 200 million people live outside of their home countries. And this is not a new phenomenon: Europe, America, and Australia were all built on the influx of millions of people in search of a better life. Since 2000, the international [...]
Campus radio has students hooked
By Shreya Biswas
NEW DELHI: It’s time to tune in folks! Ever since the government announced revised guidelines on community radio service (CRS), hordes of educational institutes and universities are hitting the air waves with their own versions of FM radio.
While FM radio service by some premier universities such as Delhi University, [...]
BBC Arabic has announced that it will host a series of interactive workshops called The World as You See It for aspiring broadcasters across the Arab world. The workshops are announced as the BBC prepares to launch its integrated Arabic-language multi-media offer, a first for the region, incorporating radio, TV and online.
Aimed at developing talented [...]
A gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle shot at two “block time” radio broadcasters after they emerged from their radio station on 25 October 2007 in Digos, Davao del Sur, a province approximately 680 kilometres south of Manila. The Philippines had its baranggay (village) elections on 29 October.
“Block timing” is a widespread practice in radio [...]
Critical Somali radio boss killed
From BBC News
The acting manager of the independent Somali radio station, Shabelle, has been killed in Mogadishu.
Bashir Nor Gedi was attacked on Friday night outside his home by unknown militia armed with pistols, station employees and relatives said.
Last month, Bashir and 18 colleagues were arrested and questioned for hours by government [...]
We take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the national consultative process for developing a National Policy on ICT in Education on behalf of the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India.
The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/suggestions/position papers, to assist the Ministry [...]
CHSR FM, Fredericton’s Community-Based Campus Radio station is seeking a highly motivated person for the position of Station Manager.
CHSR is a 46 year old institution based in Fredericton on the UNB/STU campus. We are dedicated to high quality, volunteer produced programming of interest to students and the communities of the Fredericton area. It is part [...]
Reporters Without Borders condemned escalating kidnappings of journalists after three were snatched in less than a week, two of whom were later freed.
The organisation has joined the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) to urge the government to launch an all-out search for Birendra Sah, who was abducted in Bara district.
Sah, 34, correspondent for Nepal FM, [...]
New York, October 9, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Philippine government to act quickly to apprehend the gunmen who shot and seriously wounded radio commentator Jose Pantoja on Monday in the city of Iligan, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) southeast of Manila.Pantoja was a “block time” broadcaster - an independent [...]
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the transfer of radio station head Moussa Kaka to Niamey prison after a prolonged period in custody without being taken before the prosecutor or being given any explanation, as demanded under law.
Kaka, of privately-owned Radio Saraouniya, and correspondent in Niger for Radio France Internationale (RFI) and Reporters Without Borders, was [...]
Internews Network is currently seeking a Resident Journalism Advisor to be based in N’Djamena, Chad and lead a training project in N’Djamena and other locations within Chad. The Resident Advisor would set-up a training center in N’Djamena-Chad, and provide training to local journalists and managers from community radio stations from various locations in the country.
ESSENTIAL [...]
Community Radio Training Workshop
Organised in collaboration with Ideosync Media Collective,
Nomad India Network and Free Radio Berkeley
September 27,28,29th 2007
Dahanu, Maharashtra, India
One of the fundamental issues groups are grappling with in the Community Radio movement in India is the choice of technology and its costs. Despite the fact that technology forms only a small component of a [...]
Are you 18 to 25 years old? Do you live in London and have anything interesting to say about living in one of the most exciting cities in the world? If so, Connect Youth at the British Council and Resonance 104.4FM would like to invite you to be part of a unique project giving you [...]
MOZAMBIQUE: Young people’s radio show breaks down taboos
MAPUTO (IRIN) - Subjects like HIV/AIDS and child trafficking, usually considered taboo in Mozambican society, are being openly discussed by the teenage presenters of radio and television programmes for young people.
Radio Mozambique presenter Amelia Maisha Tumgine, 13, is one of several presenters using the airwaves to talk [...]
Good Reuters piece talks about radio as an empowerment tool.
Zambian children learn by radio
Tuesday 07 March 2006
The children have trekked through mud and overgrown grass to sit under a guava tree and be taught by a radio.
A cool breeze lifts their spirits as a brilliant blue, solar-powered radio perched on a tree branch crackles with [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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