Is Leicester a News Desert?
Leicester is in the headlines today because it might be the first British city to be forced back into lockdown following a spike in reported […]
Lockdown
Decentered Media Podcast 079 – Lockdown Lookback with John Coster
For the first time in over three months, John Coster of the Documentary Media Centre and I were able to get together to record a […]
Decentered Media Podcast 075 – Well-Being Media Under Lockdown with Cormac Lawler and Paul Reilly
We’ve all be coping in different ways with the Covid-19 lockdown. Many of us have changed our use of media as a way of coping […]
Decentered Media Podcast 073 – Gail Brown and Simon Jenner
What are we going to do when we move out of the Covid-19 lockdown, and start to socially interact more? Earlier I was chatting with […]
Are Anti-Local Media Policies Harming the Pandemic Response
The government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been characterised by a reliance on faulty assumptions about so-called herd immunity, and by an obsession with […]
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 […]
Values Change – How Community Media Can Thrive After the Lockdown?
The crisis we are living through, as we lock-down to protect ourselves from the indiscriminate effects of the coronavirus, are stress-testing us on many levels. […]
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 […]
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 […]