Officials from AOC Community Media, in partnership with The Daily Advertiser, are seeking volunteers for its daily show called “Reading the Daily Newspaper” for audiences with visual/reading impairments.

“AOC’s mission is to build an informed and engaged community through media, technology and education. We created the ‘Reading the Daily Newspaper’ program with the visually and reading impaired in mind to reach our neighbors who may not have access to getting the local daily news, ” said Ed Bowie, Executive Director. “Special thanks to The Daily Advertiser for partnering with us on this program. We’ve also recently joined forces with El Poder Latino (The Latin Power) every Friday for their volunteers to read the news in Spanish immediately following the English version of the paper. We are very excited about our existing and new programs to inform the community about current events.”

Volunteers for the “Reading the Daily Newspaper” English speaking program are being recruited to read the newspaper at AOC for the remainder for 2018.  Volunteers should have a clear, articulate voice in order to read local news, obituaries, sports, public service announcements and other topics relating to Acadiana.

Listeners can tune in to listen to “Reading the Newspaper” via AOC TV channel AOC 1 (Cox 15/LUS 3) and on Cypress Street Radio. Interested volunteers can contact Mary Baudoin, Marketing Director for AOC Community Media, at mbaudoin@aocinc.org or call 337-232-4434 ext. 216.