RJs from Bhopal. Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior, met today in meeting organised by UNICEF to share stories of Covid-19 and how they helped in reducing stigma and discrimination, and saying no to myths and misinformation. RJs from RedFM, Radio Mirchi, BigFM, MyFM and Radio Chaska had participated in it. Speaking at the start of the meeting Robin Jagtap, Programming head of RedFM Bhopal said that it is oneness of radio station to stand together against Covid-19.
He added that we understood that people needed information on Covid-19 which was technical in simple language which helped in reducing panic. RedFM did stories of Covid-19 warriors and pitches of experts on children and women issues. He said Radio stands together to in MP's fight against Covid-19
Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh thanked RJs for all their support in Covid-19 in taking key messages of prevention, doing stories of Covid-19 warriors and special programmes on education and giving adolescent voices a platform. Shefali Chaturvedi, Radio professional coordinated the meet and interacted with RJs in the meet.
Pinky Tiwari, Station head of LakeCity of Jagran LakeCity University shared stories of Covid-19 warriors, how they used two way communication to support migrant population, RJ Antara of Radio Mirchi, Indore, shared stories of Indore Covid-19 Warriors, while Anadi Tiwari of BigFM on programme for engaging children at home, and stories of Covid-19 warriors from Bhopal.
RJ Teena of MYFM spoke on the role of getting Government officials to bust fake news and stories from across MP which they did on Covid warriors. Arsh of RedFM spoke on how they worked on saying no to stigma and discrmination and how they worked on 'lift the facemask' encourage proper use of facemask. Sukriti of Radio Mirchi spoke on how they worked with Government officials on getting authenticated information and stories of migrants which she did during the crisis.
Ashwin of MYFM Jabalpur, shared the stories they did during navratra's and highlighting stories of RotiBank while RJ Muskan of Radio Chaska shared the work they did to dispel myths and stories from Gwalior. Dr Vandana Bhatia, Health Specialist UNICEF spoke on importance of facemask, handwashing and why it is important to say no to stigma and discrimination while Sonia Sarkar, Communication officer, UNICEF India spoke on the campaign against stigma and discrimination and call for sharing audio stories on the same.
RJs also shared their personal stories of the challenges they faced and how they had to learn to new ways of working from home and yet delivering as that was call of duty and expectation of listeners from Radio and with increased listening on challenge of making all the information simple and yet checking it from authenticated sources.