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CAMA Newsletter: March 2022
In the March 2022 newsletter we share what the sector is doing to reach diverse communities during Covid-19, how we're placed in the Strong Public Media Programme, and more.Podcasting platform cements its place as biggest NZ-owned platform
accessmedia.nz has clicked over 1,000 podcast titles, making it the country’s biggest NZ-owned podcasting platform.CAMA Newsletter: December 2021
For the latest station news, the power of refugee-background research, and more, check out CAMA's December newsletter.CAMA newsletter: August 2021
In the August newsletter, we celebrate the introduction of our national campaign, the new Ministry for Ethnic Communities - Te Tari Mātāwaka, and more.CLING releases best practice guidelines
The Best Practice Guidelines stress the importance of establishing relationships between agencies and CALD communities, as well as the importance of working to best practice at all times.Access media in the news
2025
- Local Radio Station Rebrands After 37 Years
- Plains FM Announces Name Change After 37 Years
- CAMA Urges Caution Before Officials Implement Tax Changes That Could Undermine Public-Interest Community Broadcasting
- AI - new patents, and new Parkinson
- CAMA Calls For Stronger Protections For Community Access Media In Media Reform Proposals
- Nuclear free Pacific – back to the future, Earthwise talks to David Robie
- Taking on the world
- Community Access Media Alliance calls for stronger protections in media reforms
- What’s on in Ōtautahi Christchurch this weekend and beyond
- Podcast explores brain injury effects
- What's happening in Hamilton
- The Hamilton | Kirikiriroa Festival Of Weird Is Cranking Up The Quirky Charm In The Heart Of The City
- A different perspective on business
- NZOA watch and listen - February 14
- Business podcast explores the experiences of entrepreneurs in the disabled community.
- Tennis club targets youth involvement, innovation
- More local content on morning radio
- Invercargill marks Waitangi Day with Esk St festival (Feb 11, 2025)
- Te Anau to mark Waitangi Day with 10-day festival
- Volly Call: World Radio Day
- Volly Call: Meat the Need
- New website designed around accessibility
- Residents’ advocate wants seat at Christchurch council table
- 10 Years in Pōneke – Part One!
- Volly Call: Taranaki Singer Songwriters
2024
- Sasha Borissenko on art, Japan, and championing Community Access Media
- Volly Call: The many options to volunteer in your community
- Ukraine’s vibrant culture takes the spotlight
- Solomon Islands language in focus
- Open letter plea by NZ community broadcaster for end to Israel’s ‘sadistic cruelty’ in Gaza
- Editorial: Use us or lose us
- Conversations With Wāhine Celebrates Three Years Of Broadcasting!
- Wellbeing podcast from award-winner
- Podcast sets out to demystify home-schooling
- Talented musicians set to rock out for halloween
- Focus on volunteers: The extra eyes helping keep crime stats down
- Musicians share stories (17 Oct 2024)
- Tempest Theatre as ‘diverse and windswept’ as Wellington’s landscape
- Hyperlocal and Vital: The Role of Community Access Media in New Zealand
- John Campbell's latest investigation
- Show shares waste minimisation tips
- John Campbell investigates mysterious death in The Woman at the Bottom of the Stairs
- John Campbell: the strange, tragic death of Rachel Molloy and the mother seeking answers
- Whakatū artists give classic card game a Māori makeover
- Volly call: The safeguarding trust that has your back
- Coast Access Radio has a dedicated group of volunteers
- Educator back with new ‘Rewilding in Action’ show
- Open letters on Gaza that The Press shunned – the Handala protest
- Volly Call: A way to do good with your baking
- Workshops Will Answer Treaty Questions
- Volly call: Alzheimers Taranaki
- The week in pictures
- Young migrants find power and belonging in telling their stories
- Podcast back as voice for students’ research
- Michael Peryer rapt with audiobook option for his children’s books
- Gaza updates on ‘Watermelon Report’
- Wellington Access Radio Serves Up Culture & Community In New Recipe Book
- Volly call: Hato Hone St John Caring Callers/Reo Manaaki
- Librarians to share love of books
- 100 Days Of Janet Frame – 100 Day Radio Special
- Many questions about proposed gold mine but few answers (23/7/24)
- Show gives Pakistan community a voice (23/7/24)
- What's On Southland Musician of the Year
- Joseph O'Donnell named Southland musician of the year
- Volly Call: Taranaki Health Foundation – Hardship to Hope
- Award-winning author Laurence Fearnley to visit Timaru
- Two passions, two programmes
- Introducing the man behind Tommy's Tummy Pie Reviews
- Possible Tasman gold mine only in ‘exploration phase’
- U3A Access Media interview with FreshFM
- Radio host broadcasts live after eight years on air
- Russian adoptee’s story
- Cult Chat Wins At 2024 NZ Radio And Podcast Awards
- Podcast helps careers
- Taranaki students plan ways to promote race unity
- Distance learners: the podcast
- Local Produce: Bored Games
- ABBY Releases New Single 'Freefall'
- Uncovering Wolf Mankowitz's Untold Story In "Conversations On The Art Of Living”
- Vox Pop to help communities during emergencies in the Hawke's Bay - Media Watch
- Bid to backstop local news in tight times
- Youth Broadcasting Hits The Airwaves At Wellington Access Radio
- DISCOVER THE SOUND OF ŌTAUTAHI
- Plains FM’s Move for New Zealand Music Month
- Bridging the generation gap, one show at a time
- Hawke’s Bay Knowledge Bank seeks volunteers
- Volly call: An opportunity to help in the work of St Vincent de Paul
- Opportunity open to host NZ music show
- New radio show offers news beyond borders
- Youth funding opportunities shared in podcast
- APR editor criticises NZ media coverage over the war on Gaza
- Refugee Turned Radio Host Connects Dunedin's Arab Community with NZ Arabic Show
- All-girl Dunedin Sound band honoured at Taite awards
- Earthwise talks to David Robie on Pacific issues and news media
- VoxPop expands US operations with key appointments
- Journalism Students Turn Wellington Access Radio Into A Live Newsroom
- Hope podcast can lessen financial stresses
- News in briefs, March 7, 2024
- Arabic journalist finds new voice
- Rebranding of Pride radio show
- Why would Chris Hipkins join Sean Plunket on The Platform?
- Better radio acces
- New rock podcast at Otago Access Radio
- OAR's 'Write-on' show has new presenter
2023
- Bite Into The Bad Apple Poetry Special On Wellington Access Radio
- Podcast series ‘an auditory wonder’
- A dedicated army brings community access radio to New Zealand
- Wellington Access Radio broadcasting sessions from Crip The Lit
- Creative writers to broadcast works
- A closer look at plays
- Same waves, new facilities
- Belly dance festival set to be ‘magical’
- Youth in the studio and all-night broadcasting – celebrating Tokelau Language Week 2023
- Chewing the Facts, episode 9
- Putting ‘fun’ in fundraiser for Studio 73
- 'New NZ history podcast launched to celebrate a previously overlooked profession'
- Palmerston North candidates get chance to impress
- ArrowFM: Welcome enhances understanding
- VIEWS: Online Dunedin group now on air
- Remember Radio Avon? It's coming back to Plains FM
- Groundbreaking radio station "Shook up the establishment"
- Wellington Access Radio presents 'Sharing Your Voice - A Social Night for Disabled People'
- The View From My Window: Pip Adam on her new book Audition
- Podcast focuses on world peace
- Get to know your Wellington Access Radio hosts: No Labels
- Get to know your Wellington Access Radio hosts: Aakashwani Bharat Bhavan
- Get to know your Wellington Access Radio hosts: Awkward Talks
- Get to know your Wellington Access Radio hosts: Qué Onda!
- We have lost a great friend in Bala Thomson
- Second, third, fourth-act careers – taking that 'scary' later-life job leap
- Council emergency training turns up the tempo
- Free Hawke's Bay variety show aims to bring joy
- Wellington Access Radio celebrates community this NZ Music Month
- For real: the power of creativity and connection
- New Zealand’s first large-scale community Ramadan dinner celebrates diversity
- Terry Shore celebrates 18 years on Wellington Access Radio
- Relocation prompts upgrade for radio station
- WAR celebrates Cubadupa
- Shining the light for Pride
- Award-winning programme celebrates ten years on Wellington Access Radio
- Stories of South Taranaki life preserved for future
- New Wellington Access Radio Show Gives Space To Disabled Storytellers
- Christchurch nonagenarian one of New Zealand's oldest broadcasters
2022
- Stories, not stigma: how broadcasting is helping youth
- Voice Of Aroha Radio Show Celebrates Three Years On Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM
- OPINION: Can merger of TVNZ and RNZ meet diverse needs of Pacific audiences?
- Planet FM programme makers get ready for night of cultural festivities
- Taranaki community textile project started during lockdown now on display at Access Radio Taranaki
- New name and a new location for Bay's community radio
- Taranaki low vision community chronicle experiences of life with less sight via Access Radio Taranaki
- Plains FM's Radio Toranj becomes first Farsi language radio show to be nominated for national award
- PassTheMic: Sharing stories of migrants and refugees
- Arrow FM breaks two world records
- OAR FM invites listeners to learn Hindi culture, language
- OAR FM podcast a global network
- Plains FM presenter finalist at Radio Awards
- Podcast platform punches above its weight - Scoop
- Tributes flow for MPR podcaster - Stuff
- Small project bringing big conversations to the world - Nelson Mail
- Podcasting platform cements place as biggest NZ-owned podcast platform - Scoop
- CAMA national coordinator envisions bright future for sector - Radio Southland
- Voices in the air: 40 years of community access radio - Biograview
2021
- Arrow FM transmitter replacement signals new era - Wairarapa Times Age
- MPR's search for broadcasters from all corners of the regions - Manawatū Standard
- Conversations with my immigration parents - RNZ
- MPR celebrates music month with a focus on songwriters - Manawatū Standard
- Access radio hits 40 and launches a book - Scoop
- Community project brings people together through breadmaking - The Press
- Access radio turns 40 in Aotearoa - Stuff
- For 34 years Planet FM has had an open door all comers on air policy - Seven Sharp
- OAR FM's mission to reflect cultural diversity - ODT
- Getting Here: Refugees' stories of their journeys to New Zealand - RNZ
- Fresh FM breaking down the stigma of living with autism - Stuff
- Edge of the dial: The best local radio stations for an Aotearoa road trip - The Spinoff
- OAR FM content-makers named local heroes - ODT
- CAMA excited for "fabulous" sector - Access Radio Taranaki
- Plans raise profile community access media - ODT
- CAMA plans to raise profile community access media - OAR FM