Radio: death of Jacques Matthey-Doret, a great man for radio
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Jacques Matthey-Doret, former Head of News at the Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) and founding member of URTI (International Radio and Telvision Union) died on April 1st 2013. Acknowledged as a pioneer in modern journalism, Jacques Matthey-Doret had a passion for the World. He hosted a great meeting of international politics with his show "Mirror of the world".
This great journalist liked to talk about his ideas with his foreign colleagues always humbly but with confidence, notably inside URTI or CMCA of which he went on following the works all these last months.
Always ready to defend his media, RADIO, Jacques Matthey-Doret once declared something which is still significant today in the journalism schools as well as in our newsrooms: "Radio, and notably the news, has a tendency to become laconic by dint of wanting to be concise. If radio just makes us want to read next day's papers, it resigns."
Thank you Jacques, thank you friend.
Jacques Matthey-Doret's interview (in French) :
clik here.
URTI, partner of "Women Make the News" 2013
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On this occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March, URTI joins UNESCO’s annual initiative Women Make the News (WMN). 2013 topic : “Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender”.
URTI supports WMN, the aim of which is drawing global attention on an issue on gender equality in and through the media, and joins UNESCO and its partners to promote this event on its website and its social network pages.
Moreover, thanks to its members, URTI will be able to show television and radio programmes related to women and gender equality in the framework of this initiative.
URTI joins also its voice to the one of UNESCO and invites editors-in-chief of its members radios and televisions:
- to produce special supplements/programme on topics related to Alliance on Media and Gender
- to integrate media in national gender policies and strategies
- to entrust women journalists and reporters with editorial responsibility for the newsroom
This year’s theme is related to the Global Forum on Media and Gender (GFMG) to be held in November 2013.
For more information, visit: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/crosscutting-priorities/gender/women-make-the-news/World Radio Day statistics !!! (www.wrd13.com)
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One week after the World Radio Day celebrations, URTI is able to show very positive statistics about the participatory Web platform www.wrd13.com we developed in the name of the International Committee (the twelve major audiovisual and telecommuncation organizations).
- More than 500 audio messages by listeners and radios from 49 countries representing the 5 continents
- More than 2300 downloads of the sounds have been done by the radios and have been broadcasted creating with their listeners the first world radio coproduction (public radio, private radio, community radio, independent producer, listener, fan, …)
- Almost 500 “likes” on the World Radio Day 2013 Facebook
We will inform you soon about the www.wrd13.com plateform final numbers which is still open.
An appointment is already made with the radio broadcasters and the listeners to prepare together February 13 2014.
