About
Why Community Media Voices?
Community Media Voices preserves the people, places, and relationships behind a civic media movement that was too often documented only in memory.
The collection gathers personal stories from across the field, turns selected memories into shareable cards, and organizes a public account by person, station, place, role, decade, and theme. A relational map shows who mentored whom and how knowledge traveled through the field across five decades. This is not a nostalgia project. It is a preservation project.
What the collection documents
How to contribute
The collection grows through personal submission. If you worked in community media, trained under someone who shaped you, or want to honor a colleague whose work deserves to be remembered, share a memory. All submissions are reviewed before publication. A single specific memory is worth more than a general one.
Support this collection
Community Media Voices is independent — no ads, no paywall. Hosting, archival tools, and editorial work are funded by the project itself. If this collection matters to you, a donation helps keep it online and growing.
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We aim for WCAG 2.1 AA across the archive and connections map — keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, and reduced-motion support where we can. See our accessibility statement for what we have tested, known gaps, and how to report a barrier.
An independent civic project
Community Media Voices is an independent project, built from the field, for the field — with the goal of a permanent public account that honors the people who made community media possible. Questions, corrections, or concerns? Contact us.