Suriname has 19 television stations, 34 radio stations, 4 newspapers, 9 community radio stations, approximately 10 journals and about 9 new media news sites. The State owns 1 radio station 1 one television station. The rest of the media is privately owned. About 150 journalists are working at the media. The media sector employs mostly ‘self-made’ media workers who largely need to be educated and trained. This need also originates from a strong increase in the number of news media in the previous years and consequently also the number of required journalists. The purpose of the media in...
Countries: Suriname
EDUCONS: Caribbean Internet Radio Portal: Expanding the reach and impact of community radio stations
The UNESCO-supported CMC project in the Caribbean has produced exciting individual results of territories extending their creativity to conceive content, relevant to specific challenges in the community. The initial support received for the piloting of Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) ? mcclinks website ? has provided an opportunity to integrate those activities as one Caribbean approach to develop CMCs as tools for poverty alleviation and the strengthening of democracy and good governance through freedom of expression and access to information. CIRP is a collective representative of...
The long term objectives of this project are to use telecommunications and mass media to build integrated and self-sustaining rural and remote communities, which form part of an overall National Plan for broadcasting in the interior in Suriname. Based on the experience of Radio Muye, the first community radio station to be set up by UNESCO in Suriname, the project aimed to provide basic community broadcasting (radio and television) infrastructure at 10 telecentre sites and hands-on training of 40 community youth in sustainable broadcasting techniques. It was later foreseen to begin the...
The project aimed to equip a radio production studio devoted exclusively to the making of educational programmes, to train staff and resource groups in the techniques of producing such programmes and thus to increase the output of educational programmes on national radio.
