Rustbelt Radio is the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

Independent Media Center

The Independent Media Center is a global participatory network of journalists that report on political and social issues. It originated during the Seattle anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism and its...

's weekly radio program which introduces itself as "news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media".

Production

Rustbelt Radio is produced by a volunteer collective working primarily in the Pittsburgh area. Volunteers conduct interviews and record events. They then edit the audio using Audacity

Audacity

Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University...

, a free

Free software

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 open source

Open source

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 digital audio editor

Digital audio editor

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. The show is organized each week using a wiki

Wiki

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 in a collaboritive process. The show is produced, recorded and aired live on Monday evenings from the studios of WRCT-FM

WRCT

WRCT is a non-commercial freeform radio station based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station, which is hosted in the basement of Carnegie Mellon's University Center, is run by students, staff, faculty, and community members. WRCT broadcasts on 88.3 MHz with an ERP of 1.75 kW, from atop...

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