WRFI RADIO
In November 2020, I started volunteering at WRFI Community Radio, covering local news in Tompkins and Schuyler counties. As an intern, I wrote scripts and co-hosted shows, reading headlines live on air using Source-Connect. I also crafted 150-200 word summaries of top local stories.
WRFI News: 12/21/2020
WRFI Intern Tessie Devlin reports on grassroots efforts to have Cornell University better support Indigenous students and acknowledge the university’s founding on native land. Plus an episode of the podcast "Audio Interference", all that and more after today's headlines.
WRFI News: 12/16/2020
Happy Wednesday! After the headline news, you’ll hear a conversation with a researcher on a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how urbanization may affect the evolution of coat color in the Eastern Gray Squirrel.
WRFI News: 12/7/2020
Happy Monday! After the headline news, you’ll hear an episode of the podcast Audio Interference, which explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. Today’s selection features part of the “Archiving Abolition” series, made in collaboration with Survived and Punished New York. Other episodes in the collaborative series can be heard in the coming weeks on Mondays, and at interferencearchive.org.
WRFI News: 11/30/2020
Happy Monday! After the headline news, we feature an episode of one of WRFI’s public affairs series, “The Inquiring Socialist”. Contributor Wayles Brown speaks with Raza Rumi, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media about the role of independent Media as a contrast to mainstream media.