A pioneering community radio station in Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville, New Dawn FM 95.3, has won the UQ School of Journalism and Communication’s Communication and Social Change Award 2009.
Based in the town of Buka, locally-owned New Dawn FM 95.3 Community Radio was founded to help rebuild Bougainville’s civil society in the wake of a devastating 10-year internal conflict which killed 20,000 people, and displaced 40,000 others.
New Dawn FM receives the CSC Award commemorative plaque and A$2,500.
Reflecting the consistently high-calibre of entries, the CSC Jury also awarded a special Meritorious Commendation Award to Indian graphic designer and artist Ms Lakshmi Murthy for her innovative and ground-breaking use of graphic design to promote communication and social change.
Ms Murthy receives A$1500 and a CSC plaque.
UQ’s prestigious annual Communication and Social Change Award was launched in 2006, to honour outstanding contributions by individuals or organisations around the world to the theory and practice of CSC.
Courtesy of the University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communication.
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