Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
Kathleen Stein, president, and Caitlin Hill, membership chair, of the St. Lawrence County League of Women Voters, both of Canton, display the Thinking Outside the Box Award at the annual …
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Kathleen Stein, president, and Caitlin Hill, membership chair, of the St. Lawrence County League of Women Voters, both of Canton, display the Thinking Outside the Box Award at the annual meeting the NYS League in Albany.
Members of the St. Lawrence County League of Women Voters were honored at a state meeting of the League for work on the “North Country Matters” and “Conversations with Candidates” cable TV shows.
The local branch received the “Thinking Outside the Box Award.”
“I was pleased to find that the examples of our use of YouTube and public access television are being more and more widely shared by other League chapters. Every time I attend state level League events, I talk up taking advantage of these media, as well as reaching out to local colleges and universities to do so, and the ideas are catching on,” Kathleen Stein, Canton, president of the local branch said.
North Country Matters is a local public affairs video magazine produced by WCKN under the direction of Dan Dullea of the Center of Excellence in Communication at Clarkson University.
The NCM civic partners working to educate North Country residents about critical public policy issues facing our region include AAUW-St. Lawrence County, the League of Women Voters of St. Lawrence County, and Clarkson Media and Mass Communication students, who provide the technical expertise for the productions. The shows are filmed at the WCKN studio on the Clarkson campus.
Each fall, NCM shows include Conversations with Candidates, a voter education series designed to introduce voters to some of the candidates running for public office that year. The non-partisan Conversations ask each candidate to explain his or her positions, records, and ideas outside of the spin cycle of the 30-second campaign ad and the discussion constrains of the political debate format.
In addition to local broadcasts on public access TV, the shows are also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/danieledullea. The websites for AAUW-St. Lawrence County (http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/index.html) and the League of Women Voters of St. Lawrence County (http://slc-leaguewv.org/) also contain specific program links as they become available.
