Rocky Mountain Community Radio (RMCR) is a coalition of non-commercial radio stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Member stations broadcast diverse news and music programming.
COLORADO MEDIA PROJECT SUPPORT
Community News Network 2022-2024
Community News Network Award: $120,000 over three years to support Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s new managing editor position to expand thematic story collaboration, partnerships and distribution for this network of 19 mostly-rural or mountain community radio stations, who collectively reach more than 415,000 unique listeners per week
Community News Network 2022 Update: Maeve Conran was hired in July 2022 as RMCR’s first Managing Editor, where she continues to provide vital and transformative capacity to the RMCR network. She has enabled significant increases in content sharing, established standardized content formats, served as a daily editor, built capacity to track content sharing, and filled ad-hoc staffing and capacity needs across stations. Weekly RMCR staff training sessions have had robust attendance, and are generating an evergreen library of training materials; a regional “news roundup” radio program is being shared across stations and will be available weekly beginning this month (repurposing radio content into a single magazine format for additional distribution); and a “Phase I” analysis of RMCR station digital capacity conducted by Public Media Company has just been completed, with “Phase II” plans now underway to design and implement the use of a new shared digital platform for select stations and explore templates and tools that will help all stations share digital content more fully. This project is an example of the incredible impact small newsrooms can experience though the addition of highly-qualified shared staff.