Posted: November 20th, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
Grass Roots Radio is a chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station offered by Siren FM, the University of Lincoln and the The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
After six weeks of training, teaching, practice and fun, the Grass Roots Radio course culminated in a one hour live show of features, interviews and more produced by the team themselves.
You can listen to the full show below.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
Grass Roots Radio is a chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station offered by Siren FM, the University of Lincoln and the The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
Work produced over the six week course will be broadcast on Siren FM on Saturdays between 4 and 5pm, and you’ll be able to hear parts of that here on the website as well as download podcasts from the weekly guest speakers.
This week, the Grass Roots team started working towards their one hour live show for week six – and they gave us a little audio update of where they are with the project…
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Alex Lewczuk is an experienced lecturer and programme producer, who in his guest lecture discusses how to put together a magazine format programme: from how to set out a clock for a show, generating ideas for themes and content and making things that you might not expect relevant to the audience of your community radio station.
You can download his talk as a podcast here, and also read through his slides for extra information and links.
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Posted: October 28th, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
Grass Roots Radio is a chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station offered by Siren FM, the University of Lincoln and the The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
Work produced over the six week course will be broadcast on Siren FM on Saturdays between 4 and 5pm, and you’ll be able to hear parts of that here on the website as well as download podcasts from the weekly guest speakers.
This week, the Grass Roots team produced a 15 minute example programme made partially with interviewing other delegates – it was produced off-air as live in the practice studio and wasn’t played on Siren FM, but you can hear what stories they covered in their first test show here online…
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And if you want to get an idea of how the workshops are going, we’ve put together a little gallery…
Next week’s guest speaker podcasts will be exploring how to make plans for full programmes and there’ll be another practice run – which both will be available here on SirenOnline.co.uk
Posted: October 27th, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
Grass Roots Radio is a chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station offered by Siren FM, the University of Lincoln and the The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
Work produced over the six week course will be broadcast on Siren FM on Saturdays between 4 and 5pm, and you’ll be able to hear parts of that here on the website as well as download podcasts from the weekly guest speakers.
This week, Lawrie Hallett, who used to work at Ofcom, gives an idea of how to get through the regulation hurdles for setting up a radio station – and how do you know what your audience wants? Lawrie gives his advice on different ways of doing surveys and monitoring your audience on a small station.
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Posted: October 13th, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
Grass Roots Radio is a chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station offered by Siren FM, the University of Lincoln and the The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
Work produced over the six week course will be broadcast on Siren FM on Saturdays between 4 and 5pm, and you’ll be able to hear parts of that here on the website as well as download podcasts from the weekly guest speakers.
On Siren this week, you would have heard the team introduce themselves and play a few songs of their choice: and you can listen to a clip of that here:
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This week’s podcast is from guest speaker Les Sheehan, formerly Senior Broadcast Journalist at BBC Radio Lincolnshire, now a Visiting Lecturer at the Lincoln School of Journalism and freelance presenter with Siren FM and BBC Somerset. Discusses the history of radio in the UK, ways to find stories and opportunities for community radio through looking at the past of local radio.
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Posted: June 30th, 2012 | Author: Siren FM| Comments Off
About the course
A chance for people to learn the basics of how to set up and run a community radio station is being offered by The Journalism Foundation, the charity that aims to encourage free journalism in a free world.
Fifteen people will be chosen to attend six days of free workshops run by lecturers at the School of Journalism, University of Lincoln, starting in October. Selection will be based on a demonstrable commitment to community radio and creative ideas about how to use the medium.
The course will be based at Siren 107.3 FM, the first community radio station to be established in an English university. And, in a ground-breaking move, both the Journalism Foundation and the University will podcast a selection of the workshops so that they can reach as wide an audience as possible.
Participants will be taught the basics of interview techniques, editing, scripting, broadcast technology and the production of a speech and music-based radio programme, as well as receiving pointers about how to set up and run a community station. The course will run for six Saturdays from 13 October 2012.
Apply
You can download the application form (.doc) for the Journalism Foundation Course here.
The closing date for applicants is 7th September 2012.
Course Outline
If you want to know what will be covered on the six-week course, you can download the course outline (.doc) here.
Any questions?
Phone or email enquiries to: Tony Smith, Lincoln School of Journalism, at 01522 882000. Email: tosmith@lincoln.ac.uk
