STAR Radio Blends Urban-Rural Dialogue in Liberia

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 organization of the Liberia Media Center. The visiting journalists discussed with STAR announcer Veronica Kpan their mission to the country.

Rebecca Murray, Head trainer of the group, is a print journalist. Grant Fuller is a Radio Trainer. Arwen Kidd is a Television Production Trainer.

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.