Leicester City Mayor Media Briefing Friday 3rd July
This is an audio feed taken from the online press conference held by Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby on Friday 3rd July 2020. Additional clips […]
Community Radio
Questions About Leicester’s Lockdown Communications?
The Government’s announcement that Leicester is the first UK city to go back into full Lockdown are sensible when considered as a public health action. […]
Community Media as a Platform for Deliberative Democracy
When the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown ends, or is eased off, and whatever our life-long political persuasions might have been, we are going to have to […]
The Importance of Community Media Stories
Ofcom’s latest research into news consumption during the Covid-19 pandemic suggests that up to thirty percent of the adult population are turning away from news […]
Decentered Media Podcast 068 – Ian Chambers East London Radio
How community radio stations cope with the coronavirus lockdown often depends on their attitude to technology, the role of volunteers, and how they view the […]
Ramadan Radio Ofcom Code Briefing
Today I gave a briefing using Zoom to volunteers of Ramadan Radio in Leicester on the principles that inform the Ofcom Broadcast Code. It needs […]
Decentered Media Podcast 067 – The Social Value of Community Reporting with Siobhan Stevenson and Richard Berry
The massive outpouring of support by community volunteers during the coronavirus lockdown has been a reminder that people value their social and community connections. It […]
Leicester Community Media Network – First Steps
How can community media play a positive role in the Covid-19 lockdown? This was the topic we discussed this morning at the first meeting of […]
Using Community Media to Stay Social
There’s some great advice going around at the moment about how communities can connect and communicate during the immobilisation period, as we all deal with […]
Decentered Media Podcast 066 – Ramadan Radio in Leicester with Sharmeen Suleman
Earlier in the week I had a conversation with Sharmeen Suleman, who is the programming co-ordinator for this year’s Ramadan Radio broadcasts in Leicester. We […]
Community Media Needs Support to Bring Communities Together
At this unprecedented time, as the coronavirus challenges our established routines, and our grip on day-to-day life seems fragile, it’s essential that we have a […]
Twelve Tips for Creating a Safer Radio Studio
I’m working with Ramadan Radio in Leicester, and we are putting together our planning for the Ramadan FM broadcasts in a few weeks time. I’ve […]
Decentered Media Podcast 064 – Media Literacies – What Happened to the Radicalism?
This evening John Coster and I were joined at the Documentary Media Centre by Jurian Visser, a BA Communication Arts student at De Montfort University. […]
Decentered Media Podcast 063 – Media and Digital Engagement with David Higgins
David Higgins has a background in IT systems development, as one of the chief technology officer for Learn Direct, which introduced online learning in the […]
Help Develop Leicester’s Small Scale DAB Multiplex Co-operative
In the next couple of weeks Ofcom will be announcing the locations they have chosen for the first bids for licences to run multiplexes for […]