WERU Community Radio

WERU and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters want you to know about an educational opportunity for listeners. Fans of our very own Notes from the Electronic Cottage with Jim Campbell (Thursdays 7:30 a.m. on WERU) may be especially interested in this course. Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication announced the latest session of its free online course aimed at improving digital media literacy among adults. The News Co/Lab is offering the course in partnership with America Amplified, a public media initiative focused on community engagement reporting around the 2020 election.

Enrollment in “Mediactive: How to Participate in Our Digital World” is now open to anyone with an email address through ASU’s Continuing and Professional Education.

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The Democracy Forum on WERU, on September 18, addressed voter participation in marginalized communities. Structural/systemic/institutional barriers to voting, as well as motivational barriers to voting, were addressed in detail on the program. Listen on our public affairs archives here.

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Every 3rd Tuesday of the month, it’s time for our Elections 2020 edition of Maine Currents, with regular guests: Professor Amy Fried, Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Maine; and former State Representative Ralph Chapman; Ann Luther, board member for the League of Women Voters of Maine and host of the Democracy Forum here on WERU; and Will Hayward, Advocacy Program Coordinator for the League of Women Voters. Their discussion was all about election safety issues, the current status of ranked choice voting, and more!

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:50 p.m. (just before afternoon public affairs), WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager, Amy Browne, will give a live “Maine Coronavirus Report.” We invite you to tune in live, read the transcripts below.

State & Federal COVID-19 Information:

• Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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After much planning and preparation, construction was completed in August on WERU’s new solar power array system for the studios and offices in East Orland. That’s right, we are broadcasting from the “solar-powered studios of WERU!” We are thrilled to have SUNDOG SOLAR of Searsport as our excellent partner on this project. Let the sun shine!

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It’s a difficult time for everyone, including local businesses. Therefore, we encourage listeners, when you are able, to help the businesses that support community radio. You can find a list of them here. Please take a look and consider patronizing these businesses when you are purchasing goods and services, be it curbside, online, by phone or in-person. Thank you to all the businesses out there that help make community radio possible!

(Photo: Eric Furry, owner of Pro Libris Books in Bangor and long-time WERU business supporter.)

Thanks to WERU’s Smartphone App you can easily listen to WERU to live and recorded shows from your phone! Just search for WERU in your favorite app store (App Store for iPhones and Google Play for Android phones).  Give it a try – we hope you enjoy it!

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