{"id":2675,"date":"2021-12-02T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2021-12-02T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:12:46","slug":"new-member-community-radio-fund-canadas-board-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/new-member-community-radio-fund-canadas-board-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"A new member on the Community Radio Fund of Canada&#8217;s Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">December 1, 2021<br \/>\n<\/span>Ottawa ON<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is pleased to announce that Idrissa Diakit\u00e9 has been elected to serve on our Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Idrissa Diakit\u00e9 holds a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Information Communication from the University of\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moncton. He has worked in the field as a consultant but also as a journalist for l&#8217;Acadie\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nouvelle, l&#8217;\u00c9toile de Kent and l&#8217;\u00c9toile de Dieppe. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moniteur Acadien newspaper in New Brunswick. He has been living in New Brunswick for the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">past twenty years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal news and information is one of the cornerstones of community radio in Canada.\u00a0 As we see the erosion of local media at an alarming rate, providing Canadians with access to the information they need from sources they trust is becoming increasingly critical to what community radio does. ,\u201d said board president Brenda Grunau.\u00a0 \u201cIdrissa\u2019s experience in local news will be an asset to our Board, and\u00a0 we are excited to have him as part of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Diakit\u00e9 was elected by the membership of the CRFC at the AGM held on November 23rd.\u00a0 He will serve a 2 year term.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact:<br \/>\nAlex Freedman<br \/>\nExecutive Director of the CRFC<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alex@crfc-fcrc.ca<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, 2021 Ottawa ON The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is pleased to announce that Idrissa Diakit\u00e9 has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}