"The manual will be useful for a variety of people: professional graphic designers, editors and desktop publishers; business people and public servants; volunteers in community groups; printers and imagesetters; students of graphic design and desktop publishing. Not every section in the manual will
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be useful for everyone. Nor is the manual aimed at teaching everyone how to print, imageset, use particular software or completely prepare a document to prepress level or to upload it to the Internet. What this book does discuss is how to make design decisions that best use these processes and to recognise their possibilities and limitations. The part called ‘Projects’ describes many of the projects an organisation may be considering. It provides methods of approaching each project and, in many cases, some ways to streamline the development or production time. There are helpful hints on saving money, too. The part called ‘Production’ starts with design issues such as layout, typography and colour, which affect almost all design projects, and moves on to prepress and printing, and describes types of paper and finishing processes [...]" (Why is this book useful?)
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Ce manuel est destiné aux animateurs, aux producteurs et aux journalistes des radios associations, afin d'orienter leur action. Trois parties:
1) La radio associative: un outil de communication pour le développement. Cette partie met au point la terminologie et situe les différences et ressemblan
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ces entre radio associative, radio communautaire et radio de proximité, et présente les spécificités de la radio associatives: a) activité radiophonique à but non lucratif, b) contrôlées par l'association, c) les membres participent à l'élection des organes dirigeants, au financement, à la gestion de la station et à la production des émissions. Enfin rappelle ce qu'est la production radiophonique: un travail d'équipe, qui passe par diverses étapes.
2) Présentation de différents genres de production radiophonique: interview, reportage, animation d'antenne, magazine, documentaire, lla nouvelle, le journal parlé, la table ronde et le débat, l'émission du jeu public, l'annonce radiophonique.
3) L'éthique et la loi: rappel de quelques principes de base jurdiques et éthiques. On y trouvera le code de déontologie de l'animateur de la radio rurale; docu d'Intermédia Consultants et du CIERRO, ainsi que la charte communautaire de la communication, adoptée par l'AG de l'AMARC à Dakar en janvier 1995.
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"This short primer is based on the experience of Tambuli, one of the first community radio stations in the Philippines. The primer is divided into two sections: Section A comprises definitions of community radio and an introduction to the necessary technical equipment, to management and to codes of
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conduct; section B is on programming, the nature of radio and its possibilities, and shows the different formats which can be used. Two things are special about the primer: Firstly, it explains what kind of equipment is needed, what it costs and what must be considered when choosing a transmitter, an antenna tower, and a suitable location for broadcasting. Furthermore, it gives advice on studio acoustics and on policies for operating a transmitter. Secondly, it outlines general characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of radio which should be kept in mind by those who have not worked with radio before, such as: 'radio lacks permanence. The audience may not read and re-read messages as in the print press', or 'radio appeals to disadvantaged groups. Being portable and inexpensive it is affordable to the common people, especially to farmers, fishermen and rural audiences." (commbox)
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"This model is based on a research of six Namibian Community Radio Stations. It argues that a newly established - or even an existing - community radio station can achieve financial sustainability by implementing seven elements: 1. Environmental Scanning, 2. Strategic Planning, 3. Partnership Establ
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ishment, 4. Human Resource Planning, 5. Financial Planning, 6. Project Implementation, 7. Monitoring and Evaluation. Underlining that partnerships are needed for financial sustainability, a graphical partnership model shows what kind of partnerships are possible and contributing to sustainability. This publication is a short and theoretical presentation of a business model. It gives neither concrete examples from community radio stations, nor any checklists or tools for its implementation, but it is of value due to its view on community radio stations as businesses." (commbox)
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