Marcie Crim | Whitesburg, KY | E-mail | Website
This project trained citizens from central Appalachia in radio news production and story gathering for broadcast on radio and the Web. Appalshop, in Whitesburg, KY, developed the project with a basic curriculum and workshop model that covered production technology and techniques and provide instruction in basic community journalism. The project is now inactive.
Project Updates
- If These Mountains Could Speak: Giving Voice to Appalachia (November, 2007) - As the first year of Appalshop’s Community Correspondents Corps drew to a close, much has been accomplished. The CCC has developed a training model and materials, graduated 20 citizen reporters, seven of whom have become regular contributors. The stories aired at least twice on WMMT-FM and several have been picked up by West Virginia Public […]
- Citizen Correspondents are Starting to Produce Radio Stories (April, 2007) - As of late May, five people were active in Appalshop’s Community Correspondents Corps and eight stories had either aired on WMMT radio or been streamed on the Web. They have produced reports on such things as a 25-day strike by members of the United Steel Workers union at ARH Hospital, a proposed coal-fired power plant […]
- Citizen Radio Stories to Air (November, 2006) - The Community Correspondents Corps’ first radio pieces were set to hit the airwaves at WMMT in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and the Web at appalshop.org/projects/ccc in mid-January. The CCC added two more citizen correspondents to the project, for a total of 11 volunteers. Throughout the fall, the project concentrated on training and editorial assistance, and it produced […]
- Appalshop Trains Nine Citizen Contributors for Community Correspondents Corps (August, 2006) - Renamed the Community Correspondents Corps — which directors felt more clearly expressed what the project was about than its initial name, the Federation of Community Correspondents — this radio initiative has trained its first group of citizen correspondents and is preparing to get their stories on the air. The CCC Web site was up and […]
