Community Radios in Nimba, Bong and Bassa Hail ArcelorMittal Partnership
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- 18 Aug 2022
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Community radio stations across Liberia are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve as a source of news and information.
They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.
In Liberia, community radios have made themselves essential, especially after the war through the creation of broad-based content that is popular and relevant to a locals, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters in Monrovia and other urban areas.
While they are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve, they sadly survive at the mercy of “handouts” either from politicians, philanthropic groups or individuals.
The bad state of Liberia’s economy which does not provide any effective development of small and medium size enterprises that could support advertisement with these stations could can be blamed.
Also, many of these community radios are owned and operated by politicians, especially representatives and senators in the fifteen counties who exercise political authority over them.
But whatever, their ownership may be, they all serve one central purpose: to service their communities with news, information and entertainment in different respect.
Recently, a team of journalist visited community radios in Bong, Nimba and Grand Bassa Counties to access and enhance relationship building, as well as obtain feedback from the running community radios in Grand Bassa, Bong and Nimba counties. Read More...
