Hello and an Urgent Request from Sonya
Hello! It’s Sonya Green here, your new Executive Director, writing to you for the first time. I’m delighted to have joined Making Contact. I want to thank you for being a part of this dedicated and supportive community. Listen, if you told me six months ago that I would start as the Executive Director of Making Contact during a pandemic and uprisings for racial justice and social change, I would not have believed that. Yet, I feel...
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...
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...
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....
Call for Pitches!
Do you have a story with perspectives on an ongoing local, national, or global issue? Do you have access to voices and perspectives that get lost in mainstream media landscape? How are people working to cope, and change things? If so, consider pitching to Making Contact! We’re looking for pitches from freelancers on several themes. See list below. Seeking Pitches Immigration: We want your pitches!...
Reclaiming Gotham: The Battle for U.S. Cities
On this episode of Making Contact, journalist Juan González discusses his new book, Reclaiming Gotham. He chronicles the evolution of the growth machine in America’s cities – from redlining and racial covenants in the early 20th century, to land grabs and privatization in the 21st – and the rise of progressive alliances to reclaim them. Special thanks to Pegasus Books for organizing the event and allowing us to broadcast...
