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Community Reporters, Media Volunteers
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ALER
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Community Radio Equipment & Infrastructure, Community Radio Digitalization
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Community Television
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Local Television
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MDDA - Media Develoment and Diversity Agency (South Africa)
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Nonprofit Governance & Boards
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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University Radios
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Advertising
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Local Advertising & Local Advertising Markets
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Nonprofit Advertising, Advertising for Noncommercial Purposes
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Radio Spots
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Audiences & Users
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Audience Clubs & Listener Groups
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Audience Orientation
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Community Media Audiences & Use
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Catholic Radios
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Radio La Voz de la Selva (Iquitos, Peru)
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Radio Santa Clara (San Carlos, Costa Rica)
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Radio Santa María (La Vega, Dominican Republic)
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Christian Churches: Media Assistance
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Communication Rights
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Community Communication
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Radio for Development
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Political Economy of Media
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Rent-Seeking, Rentier States
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Educational Radio Programmes
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Training of Trainers, Teacher Education
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Indigenous Radio Broadcasting
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Journalism Training Methods
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Radio Journalism Training & Education
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Financing Media: Philanthropic Support
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Media Assistance: Local Journalism & Media
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Media Assistance: Radio
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Communication & Information Needs
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Media Management
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Accounting, Controlling, Financial Reporting
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Budgeting, Cost Calculation, Financial Planning
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Financing Media: Customer Payments, Subscription Models, User-Based Financing
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Personnel Recruitment, Staff Recruitment
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Leadership, Leadership Development
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Media Management Training
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Organisational Assessment
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Organisational Development & Capacity Building
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Print Media Management
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Quality Criteria, Quality Standards
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Television Management
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Asociación de Radios y Programas Participativos de El Salvador (ARPAS)
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Project Design, Project Planning
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Stakeholders, Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Participation
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Radio Performance Assessment & Evaluation
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Call-In Dedication & Greeting Programs
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Bush Radio (Cape Town, South Africa)
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Radio Ada (Ghana)
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Radio Chaguarurco (Santa Isabel, Azuay, Ecuador)
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Radio Sagarmatha (Nepal)
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Radio Engineering & Technologies
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Participatory Research
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Radio Broadcasting Equipment & Technologies
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Television Production Equipment
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Television Programmes & Genres
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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"1. En medio de la pandemia por el Covid-19 y a pesar de los lamentables decesos, del fuerte impacto económico y emocional experimentados, los medios locales no abdicaron de su responsabilidad con las audiencias incluso en aquellas zonas en las prácticamente no existe presencia de Estado. En este ... more

Sostenibilidad de medios comunitarios en la Red CORAPE

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE) (2020), 33 pp.
"La Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios, Populares y Educativos de Ecuador (CORAPE) es la red de medios comunitarios más grande de Ecuador y desde 2016 ha sido socio principal de DW Akademie en el país sudamericano. Entre 2016 y 2019 ambas organizaciones ejecutaron un proyecto financiado por el Mi ... more

Local Radio Stations in Africa: Sustainability or Pragmatic Viability?

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.
"Radio stations across Africa are facing unprecedented threats to their sustainability due to weak media markets, limited advertising revenue and intense competition. A more pragmatic understanding of viability and more flexible donor strategies can help these outlets stay on air and maintain their ... more
"Kenyan community radio works between international and national media paradigms, while seeking to meet the expectations of its local communities. International funding and training organizations active in the sector focus on enhancing technology for development, freedom of expression, democracy and ... more
"Since 2004 and for the first time in the history of broadcasting in the region, a dozen Latin American countries have acknowledged community radio and television stations as legal providers of audiovisual communication services. In Argentina, a law passed in 2009 not only awarded legal recognition ... more
"During 2016 and 2017 the Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (CPR-CEPPAS) conducted a research project on the ways 11 community radio stations in Argentina generate and manage financial resources. We selected a comprehensive sample with different types of community radio stations and used UNESCO's ... more
"The Australian community radio sector is a rich source of information for researchers, activists and practitioners working to support and develop community broadcasting worldwide. With a 46-year history, it represents an established and enduring third tier of independent local broadcasting with ove ... more

Sembrando voces: Manual de comunicACCIÓN comunitaria. Práctica 1

Comunicadores y Comunicadoras Populares por la Autonomía (COMPPA) (2019), 158 pp.

Sembrando voces: Manual de comunicACCIÓN comunitaria. Teoría 1

México, DF: Comunicadores y Comunicadoras Populares por la Autonomía (COMPPA) (2019), 209 pp.

Sostenibilidad económico-administrativa para las radios comunitarias

Radialistas Apasionadas y Apasionados;Radio Libres;Radioteca (2019), 34 pp.
"Este curso trata sobre la siempre difícil sostenibilidad económica de las radios de fines sociales. Pensaremos herramientas que ayuden a pensar unestra práctica en estos temas, dónde conseguir fondos, cómo adminstrarlos. La idea es reflexionar sobre las diferentes dimensiones que hacen que una ... more

The Economic Tensions Faced by Community Radio Broadcasters

In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Chris Atton (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 247-257
"Community radio broadcasters obtain economic support from a variety of sources. During my discussions with community broadcasters and activists, there was a general expression of pragmatism towards the economic tensions they faced in running their stations. Their programme content may need to be su ... more

Financial Sustainability of Community Radio Stations: A ZACRAS Community Radio Handbook

Fojo Media Institute;Zimbabwe Association of Community Radios (ZACRAS) (2018), 53 pp.
"Whereas the earlier ZACRAS manuals already covered issues of social and organisational sustainability, this manual addresses the issue of financial sustainability. These three aspects: social, organisational and financial sustainability e are described and explained in the following chapter. This f ... more
"The current study, which recognises the importance of creating learning organisations and the introduction of new broadcasting techniques to the survival of an organisation, explores the influence of learning orientation (LO) and creative broadcasting techniques (CBT) on the sustainability of CRS. ... more

Manual de estilo de Vokaribe Radio

Barranquilla: Vokaribe Radio (2018), 24 pp.
"El manual de estilo facilita el cumplimiento de los Objetivos, Misión y Visión de la Emisora, teniendo en cuenta los principios y políticas sobre los que se sustenta el hacer de la Emisora Comunitaria Vokaribe Radio. Éste busca dinamizar y guiar las prácticas que componen la apuesta global de ... more
"This study examines the challenges of good governance for community radio stations. It does this by exploring how volunteers, managers and members of the Boards of Directors at four community radio stations in Ireland view governance issues. The article finds that there are three key requirements f ... more
"Local radio stations have mushroomed in Africa, including Tanzania, partly due to increased support from international donors. However, research results show that the lack of economic viability is a major constraint for local radio stations. They can hardly generate sufficient revenues from adverti ... more
"The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic discourse in the mainstream media as well as independence from political and ... more
"This study assesses the role and impact of this local radio station network as well as its sustainability prospects, focusing on four pillars of sustainability in particular: Financial sustainability: at a minimum, radio stations need to be able to support their activities, and ideally enjoy some s ... more

Como sea: Sostenibilidad económico-administrativa en radios comunitarias de Argentina

Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne;Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (2017), 298 pp.
"Una radio social (comunitaria, alternativa, popular, local, etc.) posee múltiples y diversas fuentes de financiamiento. Múltiples: en el sentido de que no se sostienen con una sola fuente de financiamiento. Primero, porque es difícil conseguir una sola fuente que cubra completamente los gastos d ... more