DAS Colleen Graffy Highlights the Role of Local Media in Georgia
“The importance of the role of regional media is exactly what you are doing in this studio: you bring news, awareness and education to people living in small villages for whom Radio Hereti is the only source of information,” DAS Colleen Graffy said in a half hour live radio interview in Kakheti. DAS Graffy commended Radio Hereti for broadcasting in the Azerbaijani language to the ethnic Azeri population in Kakheti and West Azerbaijan.
The Hereti website quoted Ramaz Samkharadze, the radio director, as saying: “DAS Colleen Graffy’s visit and live interview on our radio is an immensely supportive and shows respect for the regional media in Georgia.”
Radio Hereti is a small regional FM station operating since 1998 with the financial support of the USG and other international organizations. It has earned a well-deserved reputation for bold, unbiased and reputable reporting. In 2007, the station received a U.S. Embassy Democracy Commission small grant to air a weekly analytical program in the Azerbaijani language and Georgian language lessons for non-Georgian speakers. |
