Contribution To The Sector
SYN is one of the largest youth projects in Australia and the world, and has up to 1,500 volunteers. It defines its aim as "to implement a national culture of young people broadcasting for themselves". In order to achieve this outcome, the station rotates on-air presenters frequently (approximately every three months) and all crew and executive positions annually. SYN does this to allow more than 1200 young people to gain direct media experience annually. Around 2500 students have also incorporated SYN's training and education programmes into their studies.
SYN has contributed greatly to Community Radio both in Australia and worldwide. For example, one spinoff project, the Bentokit Project, is a FLOSS and Cross-Platform Radio Broadcasting Suite for Community Stations licensed under the GPL.
On 25 November 2011, a book was released entitled "Life of SYN" written by Ellie Rennie. In it, Rennie follows key SYN staff and volunteers "as they build Australia’s most unusual media empire against enormous odds. Over the course of the book, social networking becomes the most popular use of the internet and traditional media institutions are forced to acknowledge the rise of amateur content. In response, SYN rethinks its approach to the online environment, kills its print publication, deals with the introduction of digital broadcasting and teaches schoolteachers about a new kind of literacy. In just two years dozens of careers are launched, the SYN radio audience doubles and they get told off for swearing."
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