CFURadio 88.7FM wraps up their NewsRoom this spring following support from the CRFC’s Local Journalism Initiatives Grant. Just over $20,000 has been injected into the region’s news landscape since this past fall! Many people in our community and surrounding area acknowledge more Local news coverage is needed. Ian Gregg, CFURadio Station Manager, says, “In a region as large as ours, creativity and many resources are required to gather news and make an impact with the coverage. I can firmly say that our NewsRoom, headed by Kate Partridge, and staffed by students and local community-radio hosts, met that challenge with aplomb.” CFURadio’s NewsRoom captured, then shared, news and issues affecting communities throughout our region both online through canada-info.ca and via the “Due North” program presented twice on weekdays on our radio signal at 88.7FM.
Collaborating with the National College Radio Association (NCRA) by sharing news and resources with other campus-community stations across the country, we feel we made an impact this academic year. We’re proud to have been a part of this local-level, information-gathering project and are in the process of renewing funding to go for it again in July! This initiative was made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the only organization mandated to financially support campus and community radio stations in Canada.
Stay tuned for local news coverage on CFURadio 88.7FM in Prince George, everywhere on cfur.ca/listen-live and written content on both cfur.ca/the-newsroom and canada-info.ca/en/
About CFUR-FM: CFUR is a Canadian Campus FM radio station, broadcasting at FM 88.7; based at the UNBC. The “FUR” (as it is known colloquially) is governed by the CFUR Radio Society, a non-profit corporation consisting of students and other community members who promote CFUR via membership drives, fundraisers, and on-air broadcasting.
For more information about CFUR please visit www.cfur.ca.
For more information about the CRFC and all of its recipients, please visit www.crfc-fcrc.ca.
For further information about our LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT, please contact:
Ian Gregg
Station Manager, CFUR
778 693 2387 Ext. 4
stationmanager@cfur.ca
To connect with the CFUR NewsRoom, tentatively on hiatus, please contact:
Kate Partridge
NewsRoom Coordinator, CFUR
778 693 2387 Ext. 2
newsroom@cfur.ca