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Free Speech Radio News
Incisive news and analysis in the service of
peace and social justice
Monthly compilations of FSRN headlines, as of January 2003,
are available to the right. From these monthly compilations,
you can access the individual day's entire show 'rundown'
(the text outline of the show), as well as link to the audio
of the show, if available. For a complete listing of all of
their past shows (including prior to 2003) see FSRN.org/news.
Thanks to FSRN
for making their daily newscast available here at Pacifica.org
FSRN is
the only daily half-hour progressive radio newscast in the
U.S. It is owned and managed by news reporters. FSRN is an
independent broadcast news organization born in January 2000
as the result of a strike by 43 reporters who formerly worked
for Pacifica Network News (PNN). It was created in defiance
of the Pacifica Foundation's former Board of Directors and
staff who imposed a gag rule and censorship restrictions on
PNN reporters. Since that time, FSRN has expanded to over
200 journalists who report from 40 states within the U.S.
and 57 countries around the world-including Israel/Palestine,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Argentina, Mexico and Nigeria. Any journalist
may pitch a news story to FSRN and every reporter who produces
a story gets paid. FSRN actively recruits and trains people
throughout the U.S. and around the world resulting in an ever-expanding
and broadened reporter base.
 FSRN
supports peace and social justice. It emphasizes decentralized
production, and the collective input of Pacifica stations,
affiliates and other community media. The FSRN steering committee
strives for diversity in ethnicity, gender, class and sexual
orientation in the staff and reporting pool. FSRN is administered
by Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship (PRAC), a newly incorporated
not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt corporation. FSRN is negotiating
for union affiliation.
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