Connecticut Communities Embrace Terry Kelliher and the Public Access Media Network
What happens when local residents, community organizations, businesses, nonprofits, schools, and civic groups have a better way to share the stories that matter in their own neighborhoods?
On this episode of Building Fortunes Radio, Peter Mingils welcomes distinguished host Terry Kelliher, owner of Public Access Media Network, for a conversation about the growing importance of local community news in Connecticut and the opportunities created when people have a platform for sharing their own stories.
As local Connecticut communities embrace Terry Kelliher and the Public Access Media Network, the discussion highlights a simple but powerful idea: local news should include the voices and activities of the people who actually live, work, volunteer, and build businesses in those communities.
Learn more at PublicAccessMedia.Network, sign up and participate through LocalTown.News, and discover additional information about Terry Kelliher and his work at Kell.News.
Building Stronger Connecticut Communities Through Local News
National news receives enormous attention, but much of everyday life happens locally.
Community organizations conduct fundraisers. Volunteers support families. Local businesses sponsor events. Schools recognize students. Churches and civic organizations organize programs. Entrepreneurs launch new businesses. Residents work together to solve problems.
These stories may never attract national media coverage, but they can be extremely important to the people living in the community.
Terry Kelliher and Public Access Media Network are working to create opportunities for those local voices to be heard.
Through LocalTown.News, individuals and organizations can participate and help contribute to a growing source of community information. The concept creates another way for Connecticut towns and local organizations to communicate their activities, accomplishments, events, and stories.
Peter Mingils Uses the Kiwanis Club Children’s Book Example
During the Building Fortunes Radio conversation, Peter Mingils uses the example of a Kiwanis Club creating and distributing children’s books to demonstrate the value of community-based media.
Imagine a local Kiwanis Club developing children’s books and distributing them to families, schools, libraries, or community programs.
Without local media coverage, the project might be known only to the people directly involved.
With an effective local news platform, the story can reach parents, teachers, community leaders, potential volunteers, local businesses, and other organizations. People can learn what the Kiwanis Club is doing, why the children’s book project matters, and how they might participate or support similar programs.
That is an example of how local community news, nonprofit publicity, civic organization news, and public access media can work together.
LocalTown.News Gives Communities a Place to Participate
People interested in participating can sign up on LocalTown.News.
The platform provides an opportunity to develop stronger connections between people and organizations within individual communities. Instead of waiting for a traditional newspaper, television station, or large media company to decide whether a story deserves attention, community-focused platforms can help bring more local activities into public view.
For local businesses and organizations, visibility can also create opportunities for stronger community relationships.
Visit PublicAccessMedia.Network to learn about the larger Public Access Media Network concept and Kell.News for more information about Terry Kelliher.
Public Access Media Network on Building Fortunes Radio
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Helping Local Stories Get Heard
The conversation between Peter Mingils and Terry Kelliher demonstrates why local media still matters.
Whether the story involves a Kiwanis Club distributing children’s books, a Connecticut community organization, a local business, a volunteer project, or residents working together, those stories help define a community.
Through Public Access Media Network and LocalTown.News, Terry Kelliher is working to give those stories another place to be discovered, shared, and remembered.
