[IMC-pgh-announce] Rustbelt Radio Community Trainings NEXT WEEK!

[Rustbelt Radio]

In order to keep Rustbelt Radio on the airwaves we are looking to
train new community members who would like to join our group to help
create a weekly social justice radio show!

We will be hosting various trainings over the next week and a half.
Anyone with an interest in independent news media is welcome - no
prior experience necessary! Please RSVP to radio at indypgh.org.

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Monday Jan 12th - Rustbelt Radio Open House.

Located at: WRCT Studios at Carnegie Mellon campus, basement of
student union building 5000 Forbes Avenue.

Come anytime between : 5:45pm - 7 pm.

Come see the live production of the show in the WRCT radio studio.
Volunteers will be on hand to explain how the show is created and how
people can get involved.

Sunday Jan 25th - Rustbelt Radio Office Hours + Q&A
Time: 2 pm - 7 pm
location: Rustbelt Radio office on 3rd floor of Thomas Merton Center 5125
Penn Ave, in Garfield.
Rustbelt Radio will host office hours for volunteers work on Rustbelt
Radio stories. Also open for general Q&A. Anyone is welcome, but
especially intended for those who have attended trainings and have
follow-up questions.


There are also two training sessions on Saturday that are repeated
later in the week:
* Saturday Jan 17th 12 - 2:30 pm Independent Radio Reporting 101 (this
will cover how to write for radio, media literacy, computer basics for
RBR)
* Saturday Jan 17th 3:30 - 6 pm Recording & Editing Audio
* Monday Jan 19th 7 pm Independent Radio Reporting 101
* Thursday Jan 22 7 pm Recording & Editing Audio

Descriptions for each session:

Rustbelt Radio Training Session - Independent Radio Reporting 101
Location: Rustbelt Radio Office, 3rd floor of Thomas Merton Center.

Description: Rustbelt Radio is looking for volunteers! Get your voice
out there and be the media you want to see.
This training will cover:

* how to write for radio
* how to put together news stories (source selection, interviewing
techniques, research, etc.)
* media literacy basics
* computer basics for Rustbelt Radio


Rustbelt Radio Training Session - Recording & Editing Audio

Location: Rustbelt Radio Office, 3rd floor of Thomas Merton Center.

Description: Rustbelt Radio is looking for volunteers! Get your voice
out there and be the media you want to see.
This training will cover:

* how to use recording equipment
* how to edit audio files using the free editing software Audacity.



Rustbelt Radio is a weekly radio news hour produced by community
volunteers.  It is a project of the Pittsburgh Independent Media
Center. The Pittsburgh Independent Media Center is a voluntary
collective dedicated to serving the local community with a system for
disseminating print and online news. Our coverage will be the issues
and events ignored by mainstream media, and also those issues that
mainstream media covers with the inherent bias of a news organization
run as a business. We believe that the job of disseminating
information does not belong to a privileged class of reporters and
editors, but to everyone. It is our duty as citizens to act as
journalists so that the public knows the truth in every instance, not
just when the truth is to our political and economic rulers'
advantage. We seek to be an inclusive organization which will grow as
a community, and not as a hierarchy.


To learn more about Rustbelt Radio, visit our website radio.indypgh.org