As World Radio Day 2025 approaches, UNESCO is helping radio stations prepare for the annual day 0n 13th February.
The UN has listed 13 ideas for credible content to strengthen the image of radio around the world.
The 13 ideas are:
- Put more emphasis on facts
- Review your programming strategy
- Present realities from elsewhere
- Inform from an intersectional point of view
- Start an “On the way to COP30” chronicle
- Give the audience a say
- Prepare for the storm
- Raise the safety awareness of environmental journalists
- Redouble your efforts to combat disinformation
- Encourage your audience to listen to the radio critically
- Strengthen staff competencies in relation to climate change issues
- Set the tone
- Green your radio
Full details for each idea are available here.
The theme of 2025 WRD is Radio and Climate Change.
In addition to the resources offered by the UN, radioinfo is a partner with UNESCO for this year’s World Radio Day, so we are offering stations a free chapter from Steve Ahern’s text book, Making Radio and Podcasts.
Download your free chapter here.
Join the list of world radio stations celebrating WRD here and use it to locate stations around the world that you can partner with or interview when the big day comes around.
This story first appeared on RadioInfo.asia