Hi All, Congratulations to the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communications for launching this newsletter on community radio.
It is indeed a welcome move to introduce a platform for community radio practitioners (amongst others) to share community radio news, events, challenges and opportunities. However, as we all are aware, most community radio practitioners work in remote areas, often without access to internet facilities, and cannot read English articles! However, it will be indeed useful to advocates, academics and policymakers. Might be useful if individual community radio stations can commit to sharing the information to their reporters verbally, ensuring that information percolates to the practitioners, and ideally, information and articles come from the practitioners. We should think about how this newsletter can feed into/feed off, the activities of CRF as well. best, Ram On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Geetha Bhardwaj < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > Congratulations to the CR Forum on taking this step forward. > > As a member of the Forum, I would however, wonder if this can be called a > "first of its kind". OneWorld South Asia through its EK duniya anEK awaaz > newsletter (see http://newsletter.edaa.in/) can be considered the > initiatior and precursor to this proposed newsletter, having highlighted > the following: > > Editorial > Voices from the field > Station Spotlight > Development Calender > Resources > Opportunities > > Needless to say, we would love to be part of this and to contribute. > Best regards > Geetha > > > > > On 4/9/2010 12:44 PM, CR news wrote: > > *ANNOUNCING **the launch of * > > *CR News – Tracking Community Radio in India* > > > > We are delighted to announce the launch of a quarterly e-newsletter on > Community Radio developments in India: *CR News – Tracking Community Radio > in India. * > > > > The newsletter will be the first of its kind in the country and will > provide a platform for community radio practitioners, advocates, academics, > and policymakers to share community radio news, events, challenges and > opportunities.** > > > > Supported by UNESCO, and produced by the Department of Communication, > Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, > the e-newsletter’s editorial team consists of Ashish Sen (Trustee of VOICES, > Bangalore and President, AMARC Asia-Pacific) as the Editor; Kanchan Malik > (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) as the Associate Editor; and Vasuki > Belavadi (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) for Design and Production. > > > > CR News has an Advisory Board that includes: Prof. Vinod Pavarala > (University of Hyderabad and President, Community Radio Forum of India); > Frederick Noronha (Independent Journalist, Goa); Anita Gurumurthy > (ITforChange, Bangalore); Rajen Varada (UNESCO, Delhi); Anujaa Shukla (Radio > Bundelkhand, TARAgram Orchha, MP) and Nikhil Dey (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti > Sangathan, Rajasthan). > > > > The e-newsletter will comprise *four* segments, namely: > > - News and Events > - Voices from the field > - Opinion and Feedback > - Announcements > > > > The inaugural issue of *CR News – Tracking Community Radio in India* is > scheduled to be launched mid-June, 2010. > > ** > > ** > > *CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS* > > > > The editorial team seeks contributions by way of news reports, features, > announcements and opinions on recent community radio activities in your > organization/region/nation. Voices/Stories from the field, including > interviews with community members (listeners and producers) are especially > welcome. > > > > Kindly note: > > 1. Contributions should be in English, restricted to 200 words for > news/event and 250 words for opinion pieces and features, and typed double > spaced. > 2. Contributions may preferably be accompanied by > photographs/illustrations. > 3. Contact address and details of authors/organization should accompany > the contributions. > 4. The last date for submissions is May 10th, 2010. > 5. Electronic submission of contributions is recommended. Please email > your articles/reports/features to: [email protected] > 6. If you are unable to email, you can also send your typed > articles/reports/features to: > > Dr. Kanchan Malik > > Department of Communication; Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication; > > University of Hyderabad; Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046 > > Phone: +91-40-23135506(O); +91-990-858-2613(M) > > 1. The final selection of contributions will be determined by the > editorial team. > > > > We look forward to hearing from you about your community radio station or > all the community radio related developments that you are following. Please > remember, the deadline for the content to reach us is: *May10, 2010.*Thank > you in anticipation. > > * * > > Best Regards > > > > Ashish Sen Kanchan > Malik > > (Editor) (Associate > Editor) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.crforum.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-crforum.in > >
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