This document introduces the Travellers' Times team and provides an overview and history of the Travellers' Times publication and website. It details plans to relaunch the biannual print magazine and launch a new digital storytelling platform and skills academy called TT-TV. The goals are to empower the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community through sharing news and information, building digital skills, and creating a national platform for their voices. Partnerships with other organizations will provide content and support for the publications and website.
2. WELCOME- Meet the TT Team
Nic Millington, CEO The Rural Media Company
Damian Le Bas, Editor Travellers’ Times
Charles Newland, TT website co-ordinator
Julie Colman, TT Partnership & Development
Officer
and introductions from the group……
3. Travellers’ Times – a brief history
• Travellers’ Times is one of Rural Media’s long term projects.
TT started life in 1995 as an A4 4-sided campaigning
newsletter published by the Traveller Law Research Unit
(TLRU) at Cardiff Law School.
• TLRU partnered with Rural Media in 2000 to broaden the
newsletter’s reach. Over the following 14 years TT has been
transformed, via accessible graphic design and photo-based
news and features, into a high quality, full colour printed
magazine.
• On 8th April 2009 (International Roma Day) TT Online
launched and quickly became the UK's main source of Gypsy,
Romany and Traveller news, links and resources of value to
GRT communities and non-Travellers alike.
9. Travellers’ Times 2014-17
TT 2014-17 will comprise :
• Travellers’ Times Magazine - will re-launch in May 2014 as a bi-annual
FREE print resource.
• ‘Your Voice’ -a new digital storytelling course will be delivered through
workshops in partnership with local GRT agencies and support services
across England. Digital stories produced in workshops will be published
regularly on TT-TV
• Your Voice Academy – ‘handling the media’, ‘start your own media
project’, ‘getting your message heard’.
• Travellers’ Times E-newsletter – a free monthly newsletter for all
registered readers
• TT-TV website - currently being commissioned and will launch it in the
Autumn.
10. Aims and Outcomes
By the end of year 3 of TT-TV
1,000 Gypsies Roma & Travellers will report feeling more informed and
empowered in accessing health, legal, education, finance & career
development services
120 Gypsies Roma & Travellers will have improved their life chances and
employability through acquiring practical digital media and
communication skills
15 Gypsies Roma and Travellers will have achieved higher level
communication, leadership and advocacy skills through the TT-TV digital
skills Academy programme
40 Gypsy Roma and Traveller organisations will be better networked, able
to share information, collaborate more effectively on campaigns, project
and service development.
11. TT-TV
The National Platform for GRT News, Information and Culture
• News, features
• History, culture, archive
• Events, conferences, fairs
• Films / photos / gallery
• Service provider’s section (education, health, legal etc)
• Partnerships and directory
• Blogs, comment
• Advertising
• Resources, toolkits, reviews
• Your Voice - user generated content / new perspectives
12. Your Voice on TT-TV
Contribute * Browse * Comment * Share
• Assignments – the TT-TV Editor will issue call-outs for
content on a particular theme.
• Live news tie-ins – the TT-TV Editor will invite
contributions to blogs that are covering stories as
they unfold.
• Reader proposal – where readers suggest a topic that
hasn’t been covered and to which others are
encouraged to submit content.
13. Partnerships: working together
During the first year of operation a partnership scheme will be developed
with national and regional GRT organisations. Based upon a standard
Memorandum of Understanding, TT-TV will support and promote the work of
its partners in return for provision of content for its print and online
publications.
We would like to explore :
• Practical and effective ways of working together
• Suggestions for themes and content
• Techniques for inspiring user generated content
• What an MOU framework would look like
• Blogs and shared best practice
• Ways to promote and drive traffic to the website
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@TRAVELLERSTIMES
LIKE US – TRAVELLERS TIMES
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