[Imc-radio] annual report (fwd)

[Danielle Chynoweth]

I will do my best to help pull something together by midnight tonight.  
Here is text from our Robeson grant update we can use.  

1) Create an audio training series

2) Document production procedures in a Radio Brain Book

3) Create an archive of our work at radio.ucimc.org

4) Schedule one-on-one production trainings

5) Organize mentoring program between producers

6) Outreach to Campus and other IMCs.

7) Diversify production team

8) Build existing relationships with Free Speech Radio News, WILL (Public 
Radio), Chicago-IMC, and other regional independent media venues.
Features from our show are being syndicated through online distribution as 
rss files: http://www.ucimc.org/features.1-0.rdf
As of last week, WTND-LP 106.3 FM Macomb, Illinois is airing our show 
weekly.  Syndication is a significant goal of ours since it can qualify us 
for funding previously unavailable, such as monies from community radio 
stations through their National Federation of Community Broadcasters 
funding.  In addition, Free Speech Radio News has just asked us to produce 
a feature on bio-engineered swine sold to meat manufacturers by the 
University of Illinois – a breaking story this past week.

9) Fix & buy equipment, and organize production room

10) Research equipment grants

Our third success can be seen in the dramatic increase in participation 
and quality of the IMC Radio News show in the mere five weeks since we 
hired a Radio News Coordinator.  When the UC-IMC requested the funding, it 
was clear to us that our biggest hurdle was making the production process 
accessible.  The amount of effort it took to produce a feature was 
Herculean.  Those who survived were a handful of young, technically savvy 
people who had lots of time on their hands.  This did not meet our goals 
of providing ordinary people the ability to produce radio stories, to make 
their voices heard.  

Last Fall, no more than 4 people were producing for IMC Radio News – all 
of them white men in their thirties.  After we hired Clint, we established 
outreach and training as his main priorities.  In his first month as Radio 
News Coordinator, 15 people produced pieces for the show, 5 of them women, 
2 under the age of 18, 4 over the age of 40.  What follows are summaries 
of and links to the last three radio shows:

2-03-03
http://ucimc.org/newswire/display/9288
(a) Urbana City Council passes anti-war resolution after three hours of 
input
(b) Students stage walk out on Uof I campus opposing war against Iraq 
(c) High School students host forum on Conscientious Objection for their 
peers 
7 Contributors

1-27-03
http://ucimc.org/newswire/display/9084
(a) 100 pack council chambers in a townhall against war
(b) Local activist reflects on joining 300,000 in Washington to protest 
war 
(c) 2 years of independent media – reflection on an anniversary
8 Contributors

1-20-03
http://ucimc.org/newswire/display/9018
(a) The closing of the CU Cityview and the downturn of independent 
weeklies 
(b) Celebrating Martin Luther King
(c) Report back from the Washington anti-war protests
7 Contributors

 On 
Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Zachary C. 
Miller wrote:

> Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> Subject: annual report
> To: imc-print at ucimc.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 03:11:21 -0600 (CST)
> From: Zachary C. Miller <zach at chambana.net>
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL89 (25)]
> 
> > I forgot to ask the print and radio groups for an annual report!
> > 
> > If someone from either of those groups can get me a half page to a
> > page of text to include in the IMC's annual report by the end of the
> > day on Friday that would be Awesome. If not, I will do my best to
> > review minutes and produced works and write an annual report for you
> > before Saturday's general membership meeting.
> > 
> > Good stuff to include if you've got it:
> >   successes
> >   major projects/stories covered
> >   growth over the past year
> >   how many radio shows/newspapers have you produced?
> >   how many people have worked on projects in your group?
> > 
> > I'm sorry about the very late notice. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
> > IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
> >  Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
> >  Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology
> 
> 

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| Danielle Chynoweth
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| Art Director * OJC Technologies * ojctech.com
| City Council Member * Urbana City Council * city.urbana.il.us