Liberia – Liberia Media Center
Exécutive Director: Lawrence Randall
Staff
Program coordinator: Lamii Kpargoi
Trainers: Patmillia N. Doe and Dixon Tunateh Penie
Technician: Marcus J. Shamu
Office manager: Jeeppelle Page
General information
The Liberian Media Centre (LMC) started as a project by the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and the Partnership for Media and Conflict Prevention in West Africa following a national conference on the state of the country’s media. It has since been registered as a not-for-profit, independent and non-governmental resource centre in accordance with the Republic of Liberia’s laws.
The resource centre started operations in August 2005. LMC advocates for the reform of Liberian media laws and policies in the transitional pre and post election period. It operates within the broader context of the right to freedom of expression, freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, access to information, media independence and pluralism in Liberia and the West African region.
LMC has made a four-year contract with RNTC for the management and implementation of the Informotrac (Initiative for Mobile Training of Community Radio) project in Liberia.
Track record
The centre has worked with and enjoys the confidence of several international and local NGOs and has successfully branded itself in the last two years as a centre of professional excellence in media development. It has attracted a steady flow of projects from a number of funding partners:
- IMS and FreeVoice – development of infrastructure
- Environmental Law Institute - public awareness on proposed forestry regulations
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – project to improve media coverage of the commission’s work
- UNESCO - internship programme for mass communication seniors and photo journalism training programme
Services
- Provision of day-to-day working resources and facilities for media practitioners
- Hosting press conferences, round table and panel discussions, seminars and meetings on topics of interest to the media community
- Partnerships for joint projects with regional and international centres
- General media consultancy, funding and project administration
- Compilation, layout and production of journals, periodicals and articles for the mass media
- Research, planning and mobilisation of local resources for media development and peace building activities
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