Chad Reich | Crested Butte, Colo. | (970) 349-5225 ext. 10 | E-mail | Inactive
The last Census cites Gunnison County, CO as 96% White, but this rural and remote area has changed. KBUT Community Radio partnered with the Crested Butte News and Gunnison Country Times to explore the issues, impacts and history of immigration in the Gunnison Valley. Local immigrants as citizen journalists are recording personal diaries, interviews and blogs. Stories will broadcast on KBUT and kbut.org will have an audio archive and additional content including listener/user feedback. KBUT will share MP3 files of the broadcast pieces with Colorado’s 12 other community radio stations.
Project Updates
- Immigrants’ Journalism Flourishes (March, 2009) - By Hope Keller, Deputy Director The last quarter of 2008 was a productive period for KBUT’s immigrant journalism project, despite turnover among the immigrant journalists and the radio station staff. Since the last KBUT quarterly report in November 2008, three of the then-five immigrant participants dropped out to return to their native Mexico. The two that […]
- Opening the Door to Non-Citizen Journalists (November, 2008) - Clara Valdes of Oaxaca, Mexico moved to Crested Butte, Colo. in order to provide her children with an American quality education. She did that. Her oldest daughter graduated from high school. Valdes is a hard-working woman; she runs a home-based day care and a thrift store. She’s also a community activist. Valdes pushed the local […]
