Archive for March, 2009
Community news as a livelihood for the world’s poorest
jessica - Mar 10th, 2009
This is a piece by Jessica Mayberry, founding director of Video Volunteers. It originally appeared on Idealabs, and is being cross posted here.
Can a Community Producer like Samata, from a slum in Mumbai, ever become fully competitive in a mainstream market?
In thinking about Video Volunteers’ future work, I’m realizing we need to develop new [...]
Read More..>>The community radio movement in India
adi - Mar 10th, 2009
India has been quite a latecomer to this promising channel of people empowerment through community media. Until late 2006, only educational institutions were allowed to set up campus radio stations having a transmission range of 10-15km. The scope was only recently expanded to also include non-profit agencies, agricultural research institutes, and schools, to set up [...]
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