panorama – news for immigrants by immigrants

Panorama – news for immigrants by immigrants

Carlos Marroquin, producer, Kotomedia project

Minna Tarkka, director, m-cult centre for new media culture

Open urban channel M2HZ kicked off through experiments in 2005, regular weekly programs published on web+cable since 2008

Public access + social media – programs with and by artists, activists, community and multicultural groups

New initiative Stadi.TV builds a wider coalition of local channels in Helsinki since 2010

M2HZ and Stadi.TV

Media workshops to lower the threshold for media production and support the take-up of open source tools

Open media and Citizen reporter workshops for ngos and groups, and neighbourhood residents

Learning by doing - “publish early, publish often”

Open source media

First pilots realized in 2008-09

Kotomedia project 2010-12 to develop sustainable practices for multicultural media in Helsinki area – co-funded by the EU Integration fund

Panorama multilingual news, Baabel discussion programme, Kaaos drama series co-produced with teenagers

Program slot for multicultural programmes at Stadi.TV since Spring 2011

Multicultural programming

Objective to provide news about Finnish society in minority languages - currently Russian, Arabic, French, Somali, Spanish

Citizen journalism approach: semi/non-professional anchors filter news and provide commentary from their individual and cultural point of view

Editorial collective to decide on monthly news selections

Serious issues lightened with humour and irony – in news remix animations

Panorama

Thank you

Carlos Marroquin – carlos@m2hz.net Minna Tarkka – minna.tarkka@m-cult.org

www.kotomedia.fiwww.m2hz.net/ohjelmat/panorama