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Thanks Lisa and Welcome Sonya!
May23

Thanks Lisa and Welcome Sonya!

Making Contact Welcomes Our New Executive Director, Sonya Green  We are pleased to announce that Sonya Green will be the new executive director of International Media Project, the non-profit which produces the award-winning weekly radio program and podcast Making Contact.  Sonya is an award-winning journalist and community media leader committed to telling the stories of historically excluded communities.  Sonya has recently received...

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We’re looking for a new Executive Director!

  We’re looking for a new Executive Director! A note from Lisa Rudman:   It’s time for me to carefully pass the leadership torch here at Making Contact.  I’d like to return to my media production roots and create radio programs and podcasts for MC and other outlets and continue to mentor emerging journalists. Meanwhile I am looking forward to working with our Board in hiring and on-boarding a new leader and then doing...

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Listen to Making Contact as a Podcast

Making Contact is accessible wherever and whenever you want to listen as a podcast! Why listen as a podcast? The perk of podcasting is that you can stream our episodes with Wifi or download them on your phone, iPad, or laptop for listening later on!  Where to listen? Our episodes are now available to stream and download on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts and more! How do I listen? If you’re new to podcasting...

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We Want Your Stories: A Call for Pitches Fall 2019

Making Contact produces media that analyses critical issues and showcases grassroots solutions in order to inform and inspire audiences to action. We are accepting pitches for 7-10 minute segments or 29-minute documentaries for upcoming shows in our Fall schedule. We’re looking for both new radio pieces, or potential audio material that has previously aired non-exclusively (radio features, video docs, sound-rich podcasts etc.)...

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Don’t wait for a Call for Pitches. We invite your pitches on rolling basis.

Send us your pitches ANYTIME to pitches@radioproject.org after you’ve looked at Submission Guidelines Submission...

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Call for Pitches

We’re seeking sound-rich radio stories with ear-grabbing characters, interesting angles, and solid facts. We encourage you to explore grassroots solutions and the ways communities are organizing. We look forward to hearing from you on these topics below and others you have, at pitches@radioproject.org. Making Contact is accepting pitches for 7-10 minute segments or 29-minute documentaries for upcoming shows in our Fall schedule....

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