PROJECTS: Internews Network to Build Community Radio Station, Opens Office in Amman (JORDAN)

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Internews Network to Build Community Radio Station, Opens Office in Amman

(October 1, 2007) Internews Network is launching a new radio station in
Jordan that will focus on women and youth. The station, to be operated
in cooperation with the Princess Basma Youth Center, will broadcast to
all of Jordan.

To support this project and its other media development activities in
Jordan, Internews opened an office in Amman this month.

"Internews Network is pleased to support Jordan's efforts in media and
civil society development," said Nadia Al Alami, Internews Network's
Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. "We are very
excited that the new station will provide opportunities for Jordanian
youth to use media as a tool for access to information and community
development."

Through a grant from the US Department of State's Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor (DRL), Internews will train and support young
people to operate a radio station to be built at the Princess Basma
Youth Center in Amman. The young journalists will learn the technical
and journalistic skills needed to operate a community radio station,
producing radio programming with a particular emphasis on issues of
concern to youth and women.

This project builds on Internews' project establishing Autostrad, a
youth radio production unit, at Princess Basma Youth Center last summer.
Young trainees have gained real-life experience producing programming at
the Autostrad studio, and their programs have aired on Jordanian radio
stations.

Last year Internews also launched Yarmouk FM, Jordan's first
community-based radio station, in partnership with Western Kentucky
University. YFM, based at Yarmouk University in Irbid, enables students
to gain hands-on experience running a real radio station. YFM now
broadcasts 24 hours a day to one million listeners throughout northern
Jordan and the surrounding region. The Autostrad and YFM projects are
also funded under the grant to Internews from DRL.

Zena Nasereddin, the former International Programs Officer for the
Office of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, will head up Internews'
new Amman office as Country Representative. Prior to her position at Her
Majesty's office, Nasereddin worked at the Public Affairs Section of the
American Embassy in Jordan.

Internews Network is an international NGO based in California that works
to improve access to information for people around the world by
fostering independent media and promoting open communications policies
in the public interest. Founded in 1982, Internews has worked in 70
countries and trains some 10,000 media professionals each year.

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Internews also currently has
media development projects in Egypt and the West Bank and Gaza. For more
information on Internews' work in the MENA region, see the Internews
MENA web site (in Arabic).

Internews Network's office in Amman can be contacted at:

Regus Building, office number 315
Amman Financial District
Al-Hussary Street, Shmeisani
P.O. Box 940505
Amman 11194, Jordan

Telephone: +962-65007266

SOURCE: http://www.internews.org/prs/2007/20071001_jordan.shtm