Moments of danger: The struggle for community-based public radio in Baltimore

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Loviglio, Jason; Moments of danger: The struggle for community-based public radio in Baltimore; Journal of Alternative and Community Media, vol. 4(4) (2019); https://joacm.org/index.php/JOACM/article/view/1180/0

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This article explores the struggle of The Center for Emerging Media, an independent community media organisation in Baltimore with roots in the radical traditions of the American left, and aspirations for leveraging new media technologies to empower a new generation of voices and stories, to find audiences at the margins of the US public radio industry in a neoliberal moment of danger. As US Public radio networks have increasingly catered to well-to-do listeners keen to hear about social difference but not from the voices of the marginalised, organisations like the CEM have become increasingly endangered, resilient and necessary. This article explores those dangers and the resilience they inspire, and considers possible futures for alternative community media.