Audio: No help forthcoming for Haitian journalists determined to keep broadcasting 23Jan2010
The radio hooked up outside my moto driver’s house
Here’s my story for yesterday’s Free Speech Radio News newscast, about Haitian radio broadcasters doing their best to stay on the air in the quake’s aftermath without any outside support. MP3. Video later.
Kudos to the BBC for making its broadcasts available in Creole for free. Didn’t get a chance to check out Signal FM, but the Committee to Protect Journalists has an interesting account of how they stayed on the air during the quake. MediaShift reports that only 10 out of 50 Port-Au-Prince radio stations are currently broadcasting.
A text version of this story was printed by Inter-Press Service.
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Hi, my name's Ansel.
I'm a multimedia journalist and web designer based in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. My goals with this site are to advance media justice and "go to where the silence is" in my own reporting. More info →
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- Bill Davis: I know it's complicated and difficult for support groups to help but the story seems to be the same [...]
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- In Grand Goave, Relief Efforts Frustrate Haitian Neighborhood Leaders
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- Tell CNN to stop hyping fears of violence in Haiti. For shame.
- Video: The Morning After, Haiti Earthquake Victims Can Only Rely on Each Other
Concerning Ansel’s story about the radio stations, Radio Metropole can be heard in the U.S. via streaming audio at http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/pageaudio.php.
Before the earthquake, Radio Solidarite was also available as streaming audio but it doesn’t seem to be working, although the web page is still available at radiosolidaritehaiti.net. I assume it will be up again soon.
Valuable resources, I’d think, for the Haitian diaspora.
I seem to have been wrong in my previous comment. Radio Solidarite’s stream is working after all, maybe not too reliably, at http://radiosolidaritehaiti.net.