S3E5: The Role of Radio in Tran­sis­tions to Democracy 

This episode of Democ­ra­cy in Ques­tion, host­ed by Cen­tral Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty (CEU) Pres­i­dent and Rec­tor, Shali­ni Ran­de­ria, fea­tures guests Car­o­line Vuillemin, direc­tor of the Swiss non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion Fon­da­tion Hiron­delle, and Said Nazir, man­ag­ing edi­tor and co-founder of Trib­al News Net­work. It explores the role of local­ly embed­ded news and media orga­ni­za­tions in facil­i­tat­ing cit­i­zen par­tic­i­pa­tion in soci­eties seek­ing to fur­ther democ­ra­cy. In the age of mis­in­for­ma­tion, can the patient and steady pace of radio jour­nal­ism prove to be a much-need­ed demo­c­ra­t­ic cor­rec­tive? In the dis­cus­sion, guests exam­ine the role of radio and the oppor­tu­ni­ties faced by this medi­um of pub­lic communication.

Series three of Democ­ra­cy in Ques­tion is pro­duced in part­ner­ship with the Albert Hirschman Cen­tre on Democ­ra­cy at the Grad­u­ate Insti­tute in Gene­va (AHCD) where Ran­de­ria is a Senior Fel­low. ACHD and the Insti­tute for Human Sci­ences (IWM) in Vien­na co-pro­duced sea­sons one and two of the pod­cast.