The list of awards is posted on this site. Shelley Robinson, the NCRA Executive Director, says soon the site will include clips you can listen to for inspiration:
http://www.ncra.ca/projects-and-services/community-radio-awards
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Exercises to Exorcise Your Stereotypes
Checking in on your own stereotypes – An exercise
Full post at CJSR's Adamant Eve radio show blog: http://adamantevecjsr.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/checking-in-on-your-own-stereotypes-an-exercise/
Full post at CJSR's Adamant Eve radio show blog: http://adamantevecjsr.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/checking-in-on-your-own-stereotypes-an-exercise/
...Think of a woman you know and who you identify as a woman, maybe an acquaintance. Someone like a coworker, a friend of a friend, or the next woman you pass on the street. What changes when you ‘realize’ she is a transwoman (that is someone born with male sex organs who now presents and identifies as a woman)? In your head how is a transwoman different from a cis-woman (cis-gendered means people whose sex organs ‘match’ their gender presentation. So a woman who was born with a vagina)?
For me, this is a good one not just for showing that we often think of trans people differently from cis-gendered people, but also for showing that we often think of men as fundamentally different from women. If you’re having a hard time trying to imagine this scenario try watching a movie like Transamerica and switch back and forth from thinking about the main character as a cis-woman and then as a transwoman.
Here is another one. Next time you’re watching a show with men and women on it imagine their genders are switched but they are saying the same things and acting in the same way. For example, turn on a home renovation show with a hetero couple and imagine in your head that the husband is a woman and the wife is a man. When the wife giggles or when the husband makes an assertive decision think about how you would understand those actions differently if they were made by someone of another gender.
You can try variations of either of these experiments with other categories as well like race, age, attractiveness, size, ability, or sexuality. Try it out! You might learn a thing or two that will help you out as you work to change the world!
Free Software for FTP (i.e., uploading files)
FTP = File Transfer Protocol. You can use this kind of software to transfer your programs to the CJSF upload site. However, software can be uncooperative - keeps changing and then you lose the ability to use it the way you did before.
Lately, I have been using and recommending FireFTP - a plug-in to the Mozilla/Firefox web browser. However, Firefox updated itself in my computer and became incompatible with Fireftp.
Luckily, I was able to locate a free program called FileZilla, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net. It is not terribly different from FireFTP, and it does work. Here's a page where it can be downloaded - (or, you can just google sourceforge filezilla) http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Here's a page that tells you how to use it: http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using#Transferring_files
Lately, I have been using and recommending FireFTP - a plug-in to the Mozilla/Firefox web browser. However, Firefox updated itself in my computer and became incompatible with Fireftp.
Luckily, I was able to locate a free program called FileZilla, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net. It is not terribly different from FireFTP, and it does work. Here's a page where it can be downloaded - (or, you can just google sourceforge filezilla) http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Here's a page that tells you how to use it: http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using#Transferring_files
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Collective-based community news - notes from other stations
These are notes from a meeting that just took place the first week of June at the NATIONAL CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY RADIO CONFERENCE 2011 in Halifax NS.
NEWS DEPARTMENT CAUCUS MEETING MINUTES
Partcipants were interested in:
- Developing a functional community news department
- How to get more reporters and more student participation in news
NEWS DEPT STRUCTURE
Based off of the community news departments at CKUT Montreal and CHRY Toronto, here is one model for a collective-based, community news department:
1) Mandate or Mission Statement.
The mandate is a short, series of statements that affirms the priorities of your news department. At the end of the day, what do you want to communicate and how do you want your department to impact the community? For example, this is the CHRY News and Spoken Word Department mandate:
"CHRY's News & Spoken Word Department is here foster a strong community-led movement for more critical, accountable and representative media. Our goal is to prioritize and promote the voices/sounds of local events and groups who challenge and carefully examine the intersecting forms of oppression among our communities and dominant structures of society.
CHRY is a community-based campus station at York University in Toronto. Our mandate is to provide alternative programming, including in-depth spoken word content targetted to specifically underserviced groups within our listening community. Although students play an important role in programming, we also provide access to members of the community at large. CHRY also provides training in radio production to volunteers. CHRY 105.5 FM is an anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic organization."
2) Trainings
Offering trainings on an ongoing basis (monthly, weekly, etc.) on basic skills volunteers need to contribute are key to sustaining a news department. Some skills include: voicing for radio, writing scripts for radio, audio editing with audacity, introduction to community news values, interviewing techniques, how to use a portable recorder, microphone technique, and research skills among others.
CKUT holds twice a year Training Days - a weekend where volunteers hold workshops on extra skills they want to share with other volunteers.
CHRY has a style guide they use for training. Vols get a copy and use it as a manual. It is attached with this email.
3) Regular News Dept Meetings
Another key component is holding regular news department meetings.
Meetings can include:
- editorial / story assignment meeting
- press packet - passing around the press releases/event listings your station has received. vols can sign up to cover stories
- team up - vols can pair up or work in teams on a story. new volunteers can shadow current volunteers to learn
- CKUT plans the content line up for the following week's Off the Hour community news show (mon-fri, 5-6pm)
- regular production/studio time every week to edit audio or work on pieces
- provide snacks, tea/juice, etc. = this brings people together!
4) Volunteer Roles
Collective member
Producer
Correspondent
Coordinator
Researcher
Engineer
Host
Trainers
Special project participant
5) Archiving Audio and Outreach
You can use your station's website for archiving, or make your own blog for free with wordpress.com.
Check these out for ideas: ckutnews.wordpress.com and chrynews.wordpress.com.
Also check out fsrn.org for reporter guidelines/manual.
--
Anabel Khoo
News & Spoken Word Coordinator
CHRY 105.5 FM Community Radio, Toronto
416-736-2100 ext. 33908
chrynews@yorku.ca
www.chry.fm
NEWS DEPARTMENT CAUCUS MEETING MINUTES
Partcipants were interested in:
- Developing a functional community news department
- How to get more reporters and more student participation in news
NEWS DEPT STRUCTURE
Based off of the community news departments at CKUT Montreal and CHRY Toronto, here is one model for a collective-based, community news department:
1) Mandate or Mission Statement.
The mandate is a short, series of statements that affirms the priorities of your news department. At the end of the day, what do you want to communicate and how do you want your department to impact the community? For example, this is the CHRY News and Spoken Word Department mandate:
"CHRY's News & Spoken Word Department is here foster a strong community-led movement for more critical, accountable and representative media. Our goal is to prioritize and promote the voices/sounds of local events and groups who challenge and carefully examine the intersecting forms of oppression among our communities and dominant structures of society.
CHRY is a community-based campus station at York University in Toronto. Our mandate is to provide alternative programming, including in-depth spoken word content targetted to specifically underserviced groups within our listening community. Although students play an important role in programming, we also provide access to members of the community at large. CHRY also provides training in radio production to volunteers. CHRY 105.5 FM is an anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic organization."
2) Trainings
Offering trainings on an ongoing basis (monthly, weekly, etc.) on basic skills volunteers need to contribute are key to sustaining a news department. Some skills include: voicing for radio, writing scripts for radio, audio editing with audacity, introduction to community news values, interviewing techniques, how to use a portable recorder, microphone technique, and research skills among others.
CKUT holds twice a year Training Days - a weekend where volunteers hold workshops on extra skills they want to share with other volunteers.
CHRY has a style guide they use for training. Vols get a copy and use it as a manual. It is attached with this email.
3) Regular News Dept Meetings
Another key component is holding regular news department meetings.
Meetings can include:
- editorial / story assignment meeting
- press packet - passing around the press releases/event listings your station has received. vols can sign up to cover stories
- team up - vols can pair up or work in teams on a story. new volunteers can shadow current volunteers to learn
- CKUT plans the content line up for the following week's Off the Hour community news show (mon-fri, 5-6pm)
- regular production/studio time every week to edit audio or work on pieces
- provide snacks, tea/juice, etc. = this brings people together!
4) Volunteer Roles
Collective member
Producer
Correspondent
Coordinator
Researcher
Engineer
Host
Trainers
Special project participant
5) Archiving Audio and Outreach
You can use your station's website for archiving, or make your own blog for free with wordpress.com.
Check these out for ideas: ckutnews.wordpress.com and chrynews.wordpress.com.
Also check out fsrn.org for reporter guidelines/manual.
--
Anabel Khoo
News & Spoken Word Coordinator
CHRY 105.5 FM Community Radio, Toronto
416-736-2100 ext. 33908
chrynews@yorku.ca
www.chry.fm
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
How to log your spoken word program
Every program that airs on CJSF has to have a log sheet. (Keeping this information well means keeping our broadcast licence.)
Please fill out a logsheet and send along with every pre-recorded show you send in or leave for CJSF to air. If your program is a repeat, you can just give the date and time that was on your previous logsheet - assuming it was accurate and complete.
Here is the info CJSF needs:
A. A brief description of the program content (could be just a topic and guest list). Include the language, if non-English.
B. Host/producer name
C. Time of any Station I.D.'s that are in the show (time from the beginning of the audio file you sent).
One legal station i.d. is required around the beginning of each hour. To be legal it has to include the call letters, the frequency, and the city of origin: CJSF 90.1 FM Burnaby.
If you don't have a station i.d. inside the pre-recorded show, be sure your show doesn't fill up the whole hour or half-hour, so one can be added. Leave at least 30 seconds for the i.d.
If you're using pre-recorded I.D.'s, give the CJSF PSA ID number. If you announce them yourself, just write "voice".
[If there's no Station ID. at the start of your show, please make sure the show you turn in is not more than 29 and a half or 59-1/2 minutes long.]
D. If you use pre-recorded PSAs, also give the time and PSA number. (If you read or say the PSA yourself, don't have to log.)
E. Music info (for any music you play for more than 5 seconds): (1) performer or band name, (2) song name, (3) check if Canadian Content, (4) track number if from a CD or record, (5) playlist number or library number if from CJSF music library.
F. Expiration Date - if any (for example, if the show plugs a coming event, when that information will be too old to air).
For a digital copy of the logsheet that you can fill in, email cjsprog@sfu.ca or cjsfpa@sfu.ca.
If you want help reviewing log sheet techniques, ask me or Sarah Buchanan.
The requirements for live shows are the same, except that you put actual times, and that you must put the name and phone number of anyone you interview live over the phone.
Please fill out a logsheet and send along with every pre-recorded show you send in or leave for CJSF to air. If your program is a repeat, you can just give the date and time that was on your previous logsheet - assuming it was accurate and complete.
Here is the info CJSF needs:
A. A brief description of the program content (could be just a topic and guest list). Include the language, if non-English.
B. Host/producer name
C. Time of any Station I.D.'s that are in the show (time from the beginning of the audio file you sent).
One legal station i.d. is required around the beginning of each hour. To be legal it has to include the call letters, the frequency, and the city of origin: CJSF 90.1 FM Burnaby.
If you don't have a station i.d. inside the pre-recorded show, be sure your show doesn't fill up the whole hour or half-hour, so one can be added. Leave at least 30 seconds for the i.d.
If you're using pre-recorded I.D.'s, give the CJSF PSA ID number. If you announce them yourself, just write "voice".
[If there's no Station ID. at the start of your show, please make sure the show you turn in is not more than 29 and a half or 59-1/2 minutes long.]
D. If you use pre-recorded PSAs, also give the time and PSA number. (If you read or say the PSA yourself, don't have to log.)
E. Music info (for any music you play for more than 5 seconds): (1) performer or band name, (2) song name, (3) check if Canadian Content, (4) track number if from a CD or record, (5) playlist number or library number if from CJSF music library.
F. Expiration Date - if any (for example, if the show plugs a coming event, when that information will be too old to air).
For a digital copy of the logsheet that you can fill in, email cjsprog@sfu.ca or cjsfpa@sfu.ca.
If you want help reviewing log sheet techniques, ask me or Sarah Buchanan.
The requirements for live shows are the same, except that you put actual times, and that you must put the name and phone number of anyone you interview live over the phone.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Equitable Portrayal is Required on CJSF's Airwaves
The following information was posted to members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, by board member (and lawyer) Freya Zaltz:
Campus radio stations are bound by the CAB's Equitable Portrayal Code as a condition of licence, pursuant to this CRTC decision:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-63.htm
Community radio stations that originate 42 hours or more of programming in any broadcast week are also bound by the Equitable Portrayal Code as a condition of licence, pursuant to this CRTC decision:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2000/PB2000-157.htm
The Equitable Portrayal Code can be found here:
http://www.cbsc.ca/english/codes/epc.php
It basically duplicates the definitions found in existing federal and provincial human rights legislation and the Charter right to equality in terms of what constitutes discrimination.
Freya
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