[cma-l] Call for concrete support for Community Media

[Jaqui Devereux]

Dear all

Below the latest from Europe on support for community media



Best wishes

Jaqui

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Subject: [Members_cmfe] Halle CM Workshop: Call for concrete support 
for	Community Media
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:15:44 +0200
From: Salvatore Scifo <salvatore.scifo at communitymedia.eu>
To: members_cmfe at lists.freie-radios.at

--- CMFE News update----

Call for concrete support for community media

(14 Mar 2009) Following the recent adoption of two important policy
documents at the European level, the motion on Community Media in Europe
adopted by the Parliament and the adoption of the Declaration on
Community Media by the Council of Europe, community media practitioners
and political representatives alike demanded more concrete actions for
the sector at both the continental as well as at the domestic level.

During the two-day workshop "Community Media and European Policy", held
in Halle on 13-14 March 2009, participants from 14 countries reviewed
current trends of the sector in Europe, highlighting some of the
immediate actions occuring as a result of the adoption of these decisions.

?What must follow now,? according to CMFE President Pieter de Wit ?are
concrete measures to develop and strengthen recognition and
sustainability of community media at the national levels, as wells as
representation for community media in Brussels. Community media should
have also a stronger voice in media policy decision-making processes, as
well as in European debates in other areas of policy, including but not
limited to media pluralism, social cohesion, intercultural dialogue,
digitalization, and media literacy.??

As part of the workshop, a plenary session was convened on Friday
evening. Invited speakers were Minister of State Sachsen-Anhalt Rainer
Robra, German representative in the Steering Committee for Mass Media
and Communication (CDMC) at the Council of Europe Bernhard Möwes, and
MEPs Elizabeth Schroedter (Green Party) and Dr. Horst Schnellhardt
(CDU). The speakers broadly agreed that community media need to be
strengthened. The speakers also agreed that community media advocates
should be given status in Brussels, and that community media should be
involved in European political decision-making processes.
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Further information:
- http://www.medienost.de/
-
http://cms.radiocorax.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1903&Itemid=1

Media:
- Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cmfe09halle/
- Audio: audio clips and interviews have been recorded during the
workshop and will be available over the next weeks.
We will keep you informed once these will become available


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