Everyone has something to say - about where they live, what they're experiencing, and what they want to see happen. Our Community Reporters’ programme gives people a platform to tell these stories online.
We work with individuals from all kinds of communities to give them a voice and build their confidence in the use of social media tools.
Reporters learn how to produce content with new social media such as blogs, podcasts, films and wikis, and use everything from mobile phones to video cameras and webcams. Stories are distributed through our online networks, meaning that those voices can be heard by anyone online.
Community reporters can be local active individuals or participants in our training programmes.
To see examples of Community Reporter content, or for more information on Community Reporting and how you can get involved, visit http://peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk or contact enquiries@peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk
961.Letter from America(Sunday 03rd of June 2007 10:54:43 AM
3 years, 1 month ago )
Ex-pat Polly Low reports from Washington DC.
America’s love affair with the car is the stuff of legend. So it’s both a surprise and something of an embarrassment for a Mancunian to arrive in the capital city of this gas-guzzling, SUV-worshipping country, and find that the lot of...
962.Critical Commute(Wednesday 23rd of May 2007 11:51:03 PM
3 years, 2 months ago )
Manchester’s Critical Commute happens on the last Friday of every month. The next one is Friday 29 June 2007.
The idea is to make cycling visible to drivers and demonstrate that it’s a viable way to get around. If you haven’t cycled for a while, it’s a chance to...
963.Community Reporter News Desk(Monday 30th of April 2007 11:58:40 AM
3 years, 3 months ago )
Ordsall Community Café have now established a Community Reporters Club, in which local people can join.
We are currently attending training with the BBC with the producers of Look North West News; which is very exciting and informative.
One of the items...
964.Lookalike(Tuesday 17th of April 2007 08:45:11 PM
3 years, 3 months ago )
From A comparison of transport in Europe
Has anyone else noticed the uncanny resemblence between per-capita rates of bicycle use across Europe and the Happiness League Table as published in this BBC story ? Perhaps by chance they are related.
965.What’s fluorescent yellow and very polite ?(Saturday 14th of April 2007 06:41:16 PM
3 years, 3 months ago )
Please Give Cyclists Room signs are cropping up all over the city. This one appeared a few months ago on the northbound side of Manchester Road in Cheadle. It’s certainly much needed on this two lane, 40 mph stretch of road, where to get to and from South Manchester,...
966.M.E.N. in denial(Saturday 31st of March 2007 05:08:05 PM
3 years, 4 months ago )
A couple of weeks back, the M.E.N. carried the large and rather inaccurate front page headline: Congestion charging You say NO.
Inaccurate because on the same page was the sideline: But 59 per cent back move - if it brings cash for...
967.Manchester Bicycle Exhibition - starts 30 March(Monday 26th of March 2007 01:00:46 AM
3 years, 4 months ago )
With portraits of Manchester’s cyclists, research results about cycling in Manchester, Bicycle sculptures and crazy bike designs, films about bikes and critical mass, and premiering a new documentary film made specially for the exhibition about cycling in Manchester.
Opening Friday 30th March 8pm. After the Critical Mass bike...
968.Love Your Bike 2007 - March 30th(Saturday 24th of March 2007 11:02:03 AM
3 years, 4 months ago )
To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the Love Your Bike campaign Manchester Friends of the Earth are holding an event with three main elements on Friday March 30th:
several rides from points around Manchester culminating at Albert Square
a press call with Cllr Neil Swannick at 8:30 at...
969.Multimedia Club at Ordsall Community Cafe(Thursday 08th of March 2007 10:39:11 AM
3 years, 4 months ago )
On Tuesdays from 11:00am to 3:00pm Ordsall Community Cafe are running a multimedia club in conjunction with the MCIN community reporters programme.
You can learn how to use a computer for the first time, or how to use programmes or media equipment. You can learn how to turn you videos...
970.AGM - Monday 12th March(Tuesday 06th of March 2007 08:00:58 PM
3 years, 4 months ago )
The guest speaker at GMCC’s AGM on 12th March is Manchester-based sustainable transport expert Richard Armitage who’ll talk about the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, probably the most bicycle-friendly city in the world.
This will follow the brief AGM formalities, including the annual reports by officers, and the...