24 civil society organizations have signed a letter and joint recommendations on how to effectively safeguard media freedom and pluralism through the European Rule of Law Mechanism. Among the organizations that signed the call sent to the EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and Vice President for...
The information and community activities related to Coronavirus are keeping Grassroots Radio members quite busy. This is also the case for the Irish community of Bere Island, which is doing everything to adopt measures and behaviors that can protect local inhabitants. This includes an appeal to...
As the Coronavirus is spreading across Europe, Grassroots Radio project partners are devoting their energies to arrange information initiatives to keep local populations informed about data and events connected to the health emergency. Additionally, there are members of the consortium who are also active to...
Good news for Grassroots Radio stations in Romania! The Romanian stations have had their first Text-To-Speech (TTS) broadcasts. These include some news stories as well as an automatic weather and wind audio forecast generated and placed on their schedule four times a day. The content of the...
Grassroots Radio keeps on achieving important results, this time in the academic domain with a paper accepted at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020. The paper is titled ““Human, All Too Human": NOAA Weather Radio and the Emotional Impact of Synthetic Voices”,...
As people, women, men, workers, researchers, and activists engaged in the Grassroots Radio project, we join the International Women’s Day 2020, which UN Women has dedicated to the theme of Gender Equality. The Generation Equality campaign is bringing together people of every gender, age, ethnicity,...
To celebrate and wish a wonderful World Radio Day, which this year is framed within the theme of diversity, the Grassroots Radio team has developed 3 great video clips that highlight the extraordinary diversity informing the project. The clips are made in English, Romanian and...
The Grassroots Radio project joins its voice with community radio stations worldwide to celebrate World Radio Day 2020. According to UNESCO: radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio...
Dr Nadia Pantidi, lecturer at School of Applied Psychology in University College Cork and co-investigator at the Grassroots Radio Project, was invited as a keynote speaker at the Internet Festival 2019 – which took place in Pisa (Italy) recently – as part of the event...
Radio Civic, the community radio developed in Romania thanks to Grassroots Radio, is advancing and improving its activities with changes in the scheduling to better respond to the needs of the communities. The National Council of Audiovisual has indeed approved these scheduling changes for Radio...