[rfu-automation] Re: [grc] Affiliated Media Foundation Movement Radio News

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

Julia,

Your newscast might be of interest to us here at WRFU-LP in Urbana,  
IL. We are a progressive radio collective, and have a regular current  
affairs strip with syndicated content from a range of outlets. We are  
always interested in finding new material that serves our local  
communities.

Can you give us any further information about the news bulletin - when  
do you think you're like to have it regularly available? What sources  
will it be available from? At present we use iTunes to download most  
of our syndicated content in podcast form (and without any need for  
manual volunteer intervention) - would this be an option with your  
bulletin?

Thanks for your help,

Andrew

On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Andalusia Knoll wrote:

> A woman from the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement asked me to  
> pass this on to Radio Producers who may be interested in airing this  
> grassroots newscast.  If so you can email: julia at chieforganizer.org
> Thanks,
> Andalusia
>
>
> The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM) is a grassroots  
> effort to
> produce public radio news serving the needs and interests of low and
> moderate income Americans. We aim to produce a 6 minute newscast each
> week of national headlines of social justice news in English and in
> Spanish.  We're only in our first month of existence but so far we've
> begun reporting on social justice issues such as immigrant rights,  
> health
> care and housing. We will continue to report on these issues along  
> with
> workers' rights, community development, the environment, neighborhood
> safety, and education. Newscasts from AM/FM seek to be a platform for
> voices not commonly heard in the mainstream media.
>
> As of today I have produced two radio segments in a news format to
> showcase the kind of subject matter we hope to cover.  The first  
> segment
> is called "Dear President Obama" and talks about a letter that  
> immigrant
> advocacy groups crafted to President Obama to ask him to support a
> comprehensive immigration policy. The next talks about the community
> organizing group ACORN's success in stopping foreclosures in  
> Philadelphia.
> Although we will be distributing news in a news headline format and  
> not in
> a feature format like these examples, they give a sample of the kind  
> of
> topics we cover.
> You can read the descriptions and listen to them at our PRX website at
> www.prx.org/group/amfm.
>
> If you are interested in using our 6-minute newscast in your news  
> hour,
> please contact me at julia at chieforganizer.org. Our newscast comes at  
> no
> cost to you.
>
> Thank you
> Julia Botero
> AM/FM
> 504-302-1238 ext. 210
>
> -- 
> Andalusia Knoll
> Station Support Organizer
> (215) 727-9620 x 506
> andalusia at prometheusradio.org
>
> Prometheus Radio Project
> www.prometheusradio.org
>
> "Radio is one sided when it should be two. It is purely an apparatus  
> for distribution, for mere sharing out.  So here is a positive  
> suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to  
> communication.  The radio would be the finest possible communication  
> apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes. That is to say,  
> it would be if it knew how to receive as well as transmit, how to  
> let the listener speak as well as hear, how to bring someone into a  
> relationship instead of isolating them."  Bertolt Brecht
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