[net-gold] Community Radio Stations Obliterated, Off the Air in Haiti
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:27:18 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:12:13 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Community Radio Stations Obliterated, Off the Air in Haiti
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Community Radio Stations Obliterated, Off the Air in Haiti
RT @mediamentor:
16 Community radio stations obliterated, off the air in
Haiti Committee to Protect Journalists
<http://ow.ly/11CDW>
face serious problems
[excerpt]
More than two weeks after earthquake
that devastated Haiti, several
community radio stations are still
off the air. In the western and
southeastern parts of the country,
at least 16 stations are facing serious
problems that have suspended their
broadcasts, Sony Esteus, executive
director of SAKS, a local organization
of community radio stations, told
CPJ. The earthquake obliterated SAKS?
office in the Bourdon neighborhood,
east of Port-au-Prince.
? How to help
Community radio stations play a leading
role in local news coverage in
Haiti?s most remote communities,
filling the void left by private radio
stations in the capital. Most of them
operate with low power transmission
equipment?between 10 and 500 watts.
SAKS has a network of around 30
community radio stations throughout
Haiti and has made bringing them back
into operation its priority.
[...]
Editor?s Note: If you have any
information on journalists and media
outlets in Haiti please post a comment
below or notify us via e-mail
msalazar@xxxxxxx, or Twitter:
@HelpJournalists
We are collecting funds
that will go directly to Haitian
journalists.
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