Locality – Power of Community Network Meeting
Sharing and learning is at the heart of the community development approach, which is why Locality, the UK charity dedicated to helping community organisations, hosts […]
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Decentered Podcast 023 – Community Media and Community Development
It’s often said that community media is ten percent media and ninety percent community development. But what do we mean by community development and how […]
Ofcom UK Radio Diversity Report 2018
The Ofcom Diversity Report was published in June 2018, and while it wasnt controversial at the time, on reflection and after re-reading the report there […]
Carillon Wellbeing Radio Launch
Coalville in North West Leicestershire is the home of HermitageFM, a community radio station based in the town centre since 2009. As well as a […]
Decentered Podcast 022 – Media Democracy
The final podcast from the Documentary Media Centre gave John Coster, Jurian Visser and myself a chance to explore some of our thinking about media […]
Is Ofcom Up to Dealing with Disinformation and the Decline of Quality Journalism?
A couple of reports have been published in the last couple of weeks that are important for the future development of community media here in […]
Decentered Podcast 021 – Experience & Testimony in Documentary
A fascinating discussion tonight at the Documentary Media Centre with John Coster, Amber Rondell and John Halker. We talked about the unseasonal weather and how […]
Decentered Podcast 020 – Making Our Own Media
The latest Decentered Media podcast asked what it is that we gain when we make our own media, rather than allowing the large-scale processed media […]
Decentered Podcast 019 – Documentary and News
The latest Decentered Media podcast took place at the Doc Media Centre, and John Coster and myself where joined by Jas, Jurian, Peter, Aiden and […]
Participation In Creative Arts Drives Value-Led Social Change
Today I visited Bristol to attend the ArtWorks Alliance forum meeting. Taking place at the Acta Centre a short walk from the city centre, the […]
Decentered Podcast 018 – Shifting From Social to Community Media
This weeks podcast explored the difference between social media and community media, and the importance of shaping stories that come from the participants but which […]
Celebrating Community Radio in Leicester
Two events celebrating community radio took place in Leicester this weekend. On Friday Radio Seerah launched on 1575AM, and on Saturday Leicester Community Radio celebrated […]
Decentered Podcast 17 – Putting Out The Welcome Mat
In this evening’s podcast John Coster and myself met up at the pop-up Documentary Media Center and sheltered from the rain and sleep, and chatted […]
Mapping Community Media – Reflections
Keeping the ethos of community media relevant in a changing world was at the heart of the discussion that took place during the Mapping Community […]
Decentered Podcast 15 – Luke St Clair Oadby TV
For community media practitioners we are used to making distinctions between our social gain activity and our commercial activity. As community media groups are usually […]