Central Minnesota Audio Newspapers

Central Minnesota Audio Newspapers is made up of volunteers who produce (select appropriate stories) and read the St. Cloud Times, St. Cloud Live, and surrounding area newspapers for people with blindness or print disability. Reading is done at the KVSC Radio station in Stewart Hall, on the campus of St. Cloud State University. The group is headed by a Volunteer Coordinator who helps recruit and schedule readers. A Testing/Training Coordinator tests potential readers and provides an orientation and training for those who pass the testing. The reading test is evaluated by State Services for the Blind. Volunteers read 1-2 times per month (schedule is flexible) and the commitment per time is up to three hours. The studio is available to readers from 4-8 p.m. Sunday-Friday. We don’t read on Saturdays.

Central Minnesota Audio Newspapers provides volunteers to read the St. Cloud Times and other area newspapers for the blind or visually or print disabled. This organization was started as Central Minnesota Newspapers for the Visually Impaired in 1995 through the efforts of Mrs. Brendon McDonald, wife of then SCSU President Brenden McDonald; Minnesota State Services for the Blind; the Mass Communications Department at SCSU, and the Community Education Department of St. Cloud School District #742. The organization changed its name in 2008 to Central Minnesota Audio Newspapers.