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

01Founders and builders who launched local media centers and created a movement

02Executive directors and managers who sustained them

03Trainers and mentors who passed knowledge on

04Advocates and organizers who fought for funding

05Producers who brought community voices to air

06Board members and funders who made it possible

07Technical staff and engineers who kept it running

08Quiet forces whose names you may not know

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.

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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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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.