NEWS / RADIO: Youth and Women Are Focus of New Youth-Run Radio Station in Jordan

Youth and Women Are Focus of New Youth-Run Radio Station in Jordan

(May 19, 2008) Jordanian youth as young as ten years old will have the opportunity to contribute to a new community radio station focused on youth and women that Internews Network is launching at the Princess Basma Youth Center (PBYC) in Amman.

Construction has started on the station, called Radio Farah Al Nas (Joy of the People), and a successful test broadcast took place May 8. The station will open officially this summer, broadcasting at 98.5 FM and serving the greater Amman area and neighboring Zarka in the first phase of the project.

“I am very enthusiastic about working with the youth at PBYC and training them on becoming radio professionals, committed to promoting change for their communities and country through transparent reporting and unbiased news coverage,” said Haitham Atoom, the station manager for Radio Farah Al Nas. “The station will change the lives of many and will create a new concept of radio journalism in this modest area of the city.”

Funded by a grant from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Internews will train and support young people ages 10 to 24 to operate the radio station. The young journalists will learn the technical and journalistic skills needed to operate a community radio station.

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