In this second podcast recorded at the 2019 Community Media Association Conference in Salford, we continued to discuss what the essential approaches to community media [...]
There is a growing sense that community radio can help improve the well-being and health of our communities. Nigel Dallard and I chatted this evening [...]
Digital inclusion is a hot topic with policy-makers and social organisations who seek to deal with the challenges of making sure we are an inclusive [...]
I recently visited Leicestershire County Council to talk with Sabrina Malik and Lorna Dellow about their work with Carillon Wellbeing Radio, and the way local [...]
It was really great to chat with Dr Terri Enyon earlier today about Carillon Wellbeing Radio, which is part of the HermetageFM family of community [...]
What is the social purpose of community media? This is the question Rosie Parkyn and I discussed this morning when I visited the Internews office [...]
Today I met with Juan Pardo of Leicestershire County Council, and we discussed how concepts of social value are being developed to help and support [...]
How we invest in businesses and organisations that are focussed on social value and community benefit is an important question, as we seek to tackle [...]
The traditional approach to publishing a magazine or a periodical newspaper is often based around a marketing and sales plan that maximises advertising revenue. But [...]
What is it that motivates us to become community radio producers and citizen journalists? What are we interested in doing that is different from working [...]
The way that we support our communities and ensure that they are facilitated by a responsible and accountable media is one of the major challenges [...]
When we learn to create community radio programmes, we change the way that we think about audiences and ourselves. This podcast with Dr Katie Moylan [...]
What distringuishes community media from other forms of media engagement? Why do people volunteer and give up their time to set up and run not-for-profit [...]