InterWorld Radio is a global network for radio stations and journalists. It features news and programmes about “world issues and local contexts”. This chapter by Francesca Silvani in The One to Watch looks at the early days of the network.
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In 1996 the Púlsar news agency started up as a regional news service for local, independent and community radio stations in Latin America, providing an alternative to CNN and the major news agencies based in the USA or Europe. It was the world’s first internet-based radio news agency. Now run by AMARC, the agency provides text and audio news to hundreds of radio stations in Spanish and Portuguese. This chapter, by Bruce Girard, founder of Púlsar and editor of The One to Watch discusses the agency´s first years.
When democracy returned to Indonesia in 1998, hundreds of independent radio stations were able to broadcast news for the first time. The problem? The only trained radio journalists in a country of 200 million were those who had worked for the official government news service. Prior to 1998 radio stations could not produce their own news, but had to carry the official newscast. Radio 68H was set up as a network that filled a need for news but also worked with radio stations to develop news production capacity. This is a chapter from The One to Watch.
Nancy Bennet’s chapter in The One to Watch is about a farmers’ information network project that was assisted by the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network.
Birgitte Jallov was the Chief Technical Adviser for the UNESCO/UNDP Media Development Project in Mozambique. In this chapter from The One to Watch she writes about the difficulties of establishing community radio, with or without ICTs, “in one of the poorest countries in the world at the very early stages of democratisation”.
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