[Imc] IMC News Group Minutes, 14 Oct 2001

[Michael Feltes]

IMC News Group Minutes
14 Oct 2001, 1:15 PM

Attending: Avram, Pauline, Robert, Mark, Mike W., Andy,
Mike F., Danielle, Laura, Peter, Eric

Notes from Steering Committee:

Strong encouragement to use the Newswire with audio pieces

 - Amy Gilgan will convert Newshours to mp3 and post
them on the Newswire
 - Peter:  Newswire could be much more
 - Danielle: we need "travel packrats" coordinating and
using pieces on the Web, radio and print 

Tomorrow's Newshour (15 Oct):
Mark has 20 min. of material from St. Louis LEMP meetings

 - possibly add interviews, live or pre-recorded
 - FSRN Headlines

Local Headlines and Focus Pieces:

Star Wars protest Monday (Eric)
Amnesty benefit (Mike W.)
AWARE update (Peter)
Mosque presentation/discussion (Mike F.)
Urbana CC votes on Carle expansion (Eric, 5 min.)
Mark Robb's response to Saturday's N-G letter about Ladies
Against War
UI Conference on the Congo (Peter, 5 min.)

Announcements:

Community Forum @ Urbana HS, Thursday at 7 PM


Story Development:

Pro-war Rally - this Wednesday at noon
- College Republicans and Democrats sponsoring
- Mike Walcher may cover??

Fistulated Dogs in U of I Research (Mike W.)
Grassroots Productions on U-C Public Access TV - contact
Stephen Hartnett
 - Mark Enslin interested
ANWR Riders on Bills in Congress

Danielle: need to regularly record events around town;
we want as much material in the archives as possible,
sorted to allow producers to have good starting places
for shows on particular topics


Future Newshours:

22 Oct       Avram, Mike W., Mike F. - Regional IMC Gathering

29 Oct       Pauline
5 Nov        Andy - Afghanistan
12 Nov      Avram - Militarism and CO's  (we'll do this
eventually, we swear)

Note:  A list of "evergreen" resources for news is available
on the IMC staff computer


New Spoke:

Mark is looking for a co-spoke now that Sehvilla's fallen
away
 - Pauline volunteers, acclaimed by voice vote




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