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Every weekday an all-volunteer reporting staff produces an hour of original, hyper-local news for WOOC-LP’s “Hudson Mohawk Magazine,” serving the Troy, NY area. A focus on mission and a concentration of resources on journalism helps the station accomplish this daily feat.
Steve Pierce is the Executive Director of Media Alliance, which operates WOOC inside the Sanctuary for Independent Media. Steve tells us how that organization grew out of the Independent Media Center movement of the 2000s, adding the solar-powered radio station to its complex of three buildings in 2016. By prioritizing public affairs programming and local service, the station is able to funnel dozens of volunteers into its flagship news program.
Any community media organization looking to produce local reporting will find valuable takeaways in this interview.
The 20th anniversary of the birth of Indymedia at the Battle of Seattle is coming this November.
Underlying this is a nearly forgotten history of independent media that connects unlicensed radio, pre-social media open publishing on the internet and the birth of LPFM. With your help we want to record and document this important history at Radio Survivor.
To do this we need to get to 100 Patreon supporters by July 1. That will help give us the resources we need to begin this work in time for the N30 anniversary.
Show Notes:
- WOOC-LP at the Sanctuary for Independent Media
- “Hudson Mohawk Magazine” podcast
- Nieman Reports: “More Power to Low-Power FM“
- Indymedia
- Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
- “Independent Media in a Time of War” with Amy Goodman can be viewed at Kanopy using your public library
- “Collateral Murder” at Wikileaks
- Dee Dee Halleck
