tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70277472012-02-16T19:24:21.947-08:00Broadcasting, Journalism, Filmmaking & Media Training in the West IndiesJulius Gittenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09904796474138088596noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7027747.post-72323913781917446252011-11-24T13:25:00.000-08:002011-11-26T09:54:16.069-08:00

Professor Aggrey Brown  "Rather, in examining and assessing what the media are in the Caribbean, we came upon the question - Talking with Whom? Do we have infrastructures and channels for communication without communications processes in the Caribbean?" - from "Talking with Whom", Brown and Sanatan, 1987. For hundreds of us in the Caribbean - the name meant, and means, so much. Aggrey.

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 Caribbean Media Centre, Bridgetown (CMC) A question mark need not follow that headline, as it so often appends itself to ideas on this and many other little rocks in the Atlantic pond. I return to something I've been advocating and others have been talking about for some time now - a media farm: a single cooperative space where media artists and entrepreneurs can operate; a cottage industry

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The Five Basic Methods of Market Research | Marketing & Advertising Market Research & Analysis from AllBusiness.com

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Full disclosure: this may be viewed as somewhat self-serving. It may well be. I feel I have some idea of what it must feel like to be Andrew Mason. A lot of people like him for what he does and a helluva lot of people hate him for it. A lot more people don't like what he does and plenty more people hate him for it. I, too, will admit to having inhabited all of the above camps over the years,

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By Julius Gittens Derek Walcott's poem, "A city's death by fire", is a poignant and memorable recollection of the Great Fire of 1948 in Central Castries that razed three-quarters of the town. It left 2,000 people homeless, many of them with nothing left but the clothes on their backs. Accounts from newspapers of the time speak of the gutting of much of St Lucia's history dating back to

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This is tough to write because a sick man is a sick man, whoever he is. We have been trained by our parents not to kick a man when he is down. We do not make light of illness. We are told not to disregard the impact of illness on a man or woman and their family. So, this is tough to write, also because in following age-old manners, I might be seen to be breaking another tradition. That

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When Samuel Morse perfected the electric telegraph in 1844, he sent a message using his brand new code of dots and dashes: "What God Hath Wrought". So began the whirlwind of modern telecommunications that has swept continent and island so remorselessly ever since. Too often in these heady days of technological change and complexity I am left staggering with the same plaintive cry, "what God

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A comprehensive public education programme was produced for the Caribbean on earthquakes, and unveiled two months before the horrific 2010 Haiti earthquake. But the Caribbean media wanted to get paid to run the public service announcements and educational programmes - a mix of music videos, animation and tips for everyone from policymakers to media to general public. So check for yourself at

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To harness, by naming, creation around;To label, unwritten, folk thoughts that abound;To fight life, with language sole arm of the fighter,Their tongue is the pen of a ready writer. - Richard Allsopp, 1923-2009As professions involved in the daily use, appreciation and embrace of the written and spoken word, journalism and broadcasting in Barbados and

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Dr. Mark DaCosta Alleyne, brilliant communications scholar, author, journalist and broadcaster, and former features editor of The Bajan magazine died suddenly on Wednesday, May 20th, in Guatemala City. He was 47.Mark, associate professor of communications at Georgia State University, died from cardiac arrest at a hospital in Guatemala City, where he had been admitted after apparently developing

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No Fixed Place: Migrant Children and EducationCargado por JPAGmedia. - Mira películas y shows de TV enteros. Produced for UNICEF, this film examines the impact that the children of migrant workers in the Eastern Caribbean - mostly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic - are making on the region's education system, and asks whether education has adapted to the influx. Written and presented by

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A Child's Right to Grow and Learn: The Roving CaregiversCargado por JPAGmedia. - Mira películas y shows de TV enteros. A mini-documentary about how Christian Children's Fund's Roving Care Programme in Dominica reaches children from birth to three years of age while providing early stimulation for children and parenting education for parents. Young volunteers in the island's Carib Community

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It's time we abandon our fatigued approach to talk radio in the Caribbean, with its open-phones: ever-swirling vortices of ignorance, prejudice and cynicism, with banality at the core. Move away from lazy open-phone shows, avoid "today we'll talk about..." or "our topic for today is..." BANNED. Don't even mention the word 'topic' or 'subject' on air.... From now on the issue/event/personality is

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It would be nothing short of astounding for a professional journalist to assume that entering a political campaign would be acceptable, ethical conduct, even in industries where some media organisations declare and promote bias.The principle of impartiality and neutrality – the most basic requirement of a professional journalist would be breached. The principle of neutrality is a commonsense

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If you can afford it, there's Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), which brought non-linear digital audio editing to the masses of lowly radio producers and reporters in 1996. Radio hasn't been the same since... But it costs a bundle, now that it's part of the Adobe Creative Suite bundle...For my students, I've posted this introductory video tutorial to basic recording and editing with the

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Way off the beaten radio track, I enjoyed producing election night for CNMG Television in Trinidad. Thanks to Knolly Whiskey for his great work in making the set design a reality, and to a great team of journalists and technical people at C. And respect due, of course, to the King of News/Talk, Julian Rogers, who fronted several hours of groundbreaking tv... Video did not kill the radio star!

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I blog. You decide. Moyers and Olbermann - who was Goliath and who was David? No injuries reported, no giants slain. Only interesting insights into the arguments over news commentary versus screeching. Can Olbermann be added to the list of "screechers" along with O'Reilly and Limbaugh? Are they boundaries over which a good news commentator should not cross? Is this a liberal versus conservative

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I thought I would reprise what I wrote back in 2002 when I was forced home by the Labour Commissioner of the Antiguan government on Feb. 1, 2002, on trumped-up allegations of working illegally in the country for eight months. I was working as the news and current affairs consultant and trainer for the independent Observer Radio. I also created and anchored a popular Sunday news review programme

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For once, the Caribbean was integrated. Three o'clock, November 29th, 2007.Following radio news coverage on Thursday's earthquake produced some fissures and wobbling of its own.Most newsrooms, luckily, had access to the Internet. But where did we go? Not to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit but to the US Geological Survey. No follow up. Not a call to anyone at UWI Seismic

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This useful and handy little tome on radio marketing for local/community stations - and a useful quick guide for stations on the cusp of "re-engineering" is available (all but a few chapters) on this link: Participative Marketing for Local Radio (1) Marketing and radio It's worth ordering from the publisher in Australia, too.

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A list (not exhaustive on Caribbean English radio stations currently streaming, frequently updated. Click on Caribbean Radio Stations On The Internet

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While Caribbean broadcasters shut down their Medium Wave (AM) radio transmitters one by one, reports of the death of AM in the United States, whose economy we ape, are greatly exaggerated... AM RADIO YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW Every day, Americans spend more time with radio than TV or newspapers. Radio is everywhere. If you want to buy a car without a radio you’ll have to special-order it.

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