Not surprisingly, community has emerged as a critical player in the battle to vanquish COVID-19 and the coronavirus. While a cure remains elusive, community awareness, community preparedness and community participation have...
Read MoreCR News is in its seventh year of publication. During this fascinating journey, there have might have been instances of anxieties related to production funding, but never has the editorial team faced any dearth of articles and...
Read MoreIf demand automatically translated into supply, the role of community radio in disaster management in South Asia would, in all probability, have given cause for cheer. Unfortunately, a reality check presents a very different...
Read MoreFirst, the good news. After nearly a decade of advocating to the Central government the case for emergency based radio, the light at the end of the tunnel is finally visible. The havoc unleashed by the recent floods in Chennai...
Read MoreCR News was launched in July 2010 as a newsletter with both a print and an e-version. It sought to cover news and events related to the community radio stations in India and to track the progress of the CR sector in the country...
Read MoreUnderlying the magnitude of destruction and tragedy wrought by the earthquake in Nepal are significant implications for media – especially community media. Often the solitary media lifeline that survives the savage...
Read MoreWorld Radio Day seeks to raise awareness about the importance of radio as Marshall McLuhan’s ‘hot’ medium or the ‘tribal drum’ with a tremendous amount of untapped potential, both as an entertainment apparatus and as a tool for...
Read MoreIf community media is increasingly recognized as a critical ingredient for poverty eradication, the need for alliance building and networking assumes additional significance. Only then can we realistically address the challenges...
Read MoreFifteen years of civil society movement, 10 years of policy, four national Consultations along with Sammelans, several awareness workshops, many independent creative interventions, and setting up of 170 CR stations...
Read MoreSuddenly there is a whole lot of buzz around community radio in the country. The Government of India has announced a special scheme with an allocation of Rs 100 crore to promote community radio stations in the interim budget for...
Read MoreCommunity Radio has been making waves in South Asia during the past couple of months. Both the NGO, Common Cause’s recent public interest litigation (PIL) and the SAARC-AMARC South Asia consultations in September have...
Read MoreThe Uttarakhand floods are a wake up call to all of us that climate change is not just a reality but is also here to stay. As floods, earthquakes and drought increasingly confront the global landscape the writing on the wall...
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