Watch Your Audience Grow

The Community Story Tree Project says screening digital stories on GRTV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA had given people a better sense of their neighbors:

"From the onset, the public access channel was very much tied into a project called Community Story Tree Project. It was collecting personal digital stories …The intent behind the project wasn’t to make a TV show. The intent behind the project was to really enable and empower people in two marginalized neighborhoods" - Laurie Cirivello, GRTV, Grand Rapids, MI.

www.communitystorytree.org

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Via http://mediapolicy.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/how_peg_access_tv_serves_underserved_communities-31052