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Part III Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador: Three Examples From Latin American Community MediaRadio Intag (Ecuador)Changes and progress over the past yearsThe core team has basic training in printmedia and has been taking part in a workshopfor community broadcasters run bythe national radio organization CORAPE. Thestudents doing internships are offered basicscholar’s training with the aim of producingsmall programs related to their everydayreality.There are two levels: the direct capacity building of core team and trainingof local reporters or other community members to contribute to the radiostation.By law, all radio stations have to publish an –ethics code (código deontológico). Radio Intaghas a rather standardized code with basicjournalistic and ethical principles. 102Javier Torres, an Ecuadorian scholar, dida survey on the audience of Radio Intag:almost 75 percent of the population (about19,000 people) listens regularly to RadioIntag, but radio reception in mining areas isweak. The favorite program of the audienceis the live transmission of early morningmass; another popular format is the localbackground information program “RevistaIntag” and a participative cultural programwhere musicians from local communitiescome to the studio to play.–99Peter Deselaers, Project Manager, Research and Development,DW Akademie, Germany.100Fröhlich et al. (2012)101Roberto Durette, Director General Radio Pio XII in Bolivia.102Código Deontológico, http://www.flipsnack.com/B7DA786BDC9/ftcfg39nEdition DW Akademie In the Service of the Public 253