Today’s links 01/31/2012

• BBC 2012 community reporters project to be rolled out | Training news | Journalism.co.uk

  tags: journalism bbc community project training

  • The community reporters project, which is centred around 2012 and the run-up to the Olympic games, aims to work with people “who are passionate about news”, offering mentors to each successful reporter and six weeks of one-day training before a production week where they get the chance to pitch to editors for broadcast on television, radio and online publication.
     
     Launched last year in London with 17 trainees, the project will now be rolled out to Salford, the location of the BBC’s MediaCityUK, on 28 February and Glasgow at BBC Scotland on 9 May.

• Civil Society Innovation Network: event 2 | LGiU’s local democracy blog

  tags: network event local democracy blog

  • The Community Organisers Programme

     

    
    

     

    Naomi Diamond spoke about the new £80 million Government funded programme to train 5,000 community organisers over the next fours years. The organisers, who will be recruited and hosted by local community organisations will listen to residents in their homes, on the street and where they gather, and they will listen to public service and third sector workers, small businesses and local institutions to help ‘develop their collective power to act together for the common good, as identified locally’. 

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