STAR Radio Blends Urban-Rural Dialogue in Liberia

STAR is still off air in Monrovia, financial and managerial difficulties still prenventing the relaunch of the radio station. Yet, the situation in the country remains tense and fragile. In May,Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in jail by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) after being found guilty of...

Liberia has been on the radar screen with the national elections (presidential and legislative) in October 2011 and the Nobel Prize offered to Ellen Sirleaf, but the attention did not help Liberian media gain the visibility they need to defend their independence and pave the way for their sustainability. Closed for more...

  On 11 October, 2011, Liberia held its second election since the conclusion of the bloody civil war that lasted from 1999 to 2003. The first round of the presidential election featured 16 candidates, including incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. “Rain did not deter voters who lined up very early in the...

Since December 2010, STAR Radio has suspended its broadcasting throughout Liberia and on its website. After months and months of tensed and difficult financial crisis, with liquidity’s shortages, delays in the salaries, delays with the suppliers, etc., the staff of the radio, organized in a “Association of the...

STAR Radio wins the PUL  Award for The Best Radio Station of the Year ! For the second year running, STAR radio has won on July 2010, the PUL (Press Union of Liberia) Award For the Best Radio Station of the Year for its high standard and the professionalism of its news reporting and the relevance of its feature...

A key factor to playing an active role in urban-rural dialogue is the capacity to broadcast to a majority of the Liberian population. STAR radio made this a priority over the last year. Firstly, the radio successfully upgraded its technical facilities in July 2009, by installing a 3-KW FM Broadcast Transmitter, which...

The one day event taught the Sales representatives different techniques in sales that will help them understand the essence of radio broadcast, its social responsibilities, obligations and principles that guide them in their operations. The participants learned, among other things, to understand the role of STAR radio as a...

Mr. Tschetter leads the new team of Peace Corps Volunteers in Liberia, the first volunteers to come to Liberia in many years. Twelve new volunteers of the Peace Corps program were sworn in to begin work in Liberia with a focus on education. The American Peace Corps Program withdrew from the Liberia in 1990.

Finance Minister Augustine Ngarfuahn discusses a wide range of financial issues including corruption and budgetary allocation in government with STAR radio’s Moses Wenyou on the program “I Beg to Differ.”

Two Montserrado County Lawmakers, Former House Speaker Edwin Snowe and Representative Ketterkumeh Murry, were recently featured on STAR radio’s evening debate program “I Beg to Differ” with Sorbor George. They discussed among other topics the merits of the Legislature reviewing audit reports.

STAR radio often features notable visitors to Liberia on its regular programming. For example, three journalists from the nonprofit organization ”Journalists for Human Rights” appeared on Star radio’s “Ask the Expert” program in November 2008. Journalists for Human Rights, based in Canada, is a partner...

A team of Star radio reporters made their way through several rivers in order to complete their story. The team boarded a canoe on the Farmington River, one of the largest rivers in the country, located in Margibi County, to verify a story of pollution by the Firestone Rubber Plantation alleged by residents of the area....

Star radio, in its quest to enhance its training services, has ended a 5-week training program for nine high schools in the country. The training program was organized to prepare the students to professionally cover and report on events at their respective schools for the STAR radio “High School Special...

The Press Union of Liberia has named Star Radio in Liberia as Radio Station of the Year for 2007/2008. Star Radio was selected by a panel of eminent individuals headed by Ms Meg Riggs, head of the Public Diplomacy Section at the United States Embassy in Monrovia. Two journalists from Star Radio were also awarded for...