Free Speech Radio News

Free Speech Radio News (or FSRN) is an independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world. FSRN is collectively run by its workers and reporters. It is a non-profit organization, with funding from Pacifica Radio Network, as well as community radio stations across the US and listener-donors. The newscast is independently distributed by FSRN, as well as by the Pacifica radio network.

Hosted by Dorian Merina, the newscast relies on more than two hundred freelance reporters, "on every continent except Antarctica", who use the Internet to deliver their audio reports. Free Speech Radio News

Staff

Features Producer: Catherine Komp

Anchor / Assistant Producer: Dorian Merina

Assistant Producer: Vinod K. Jose

Headlines Producers: Nell Abrams and Jes Burns

DC Editor: Leigh Ann Caldwell

Technical Producers: Rose Ketabchi and Scott Pham

History

In January 2000, free-lance reporters for the former Pacifica Network News engaged in a strike, citing censorship by Pacifica's then Executive Director and Board. The strike lasted twenty-six months until March 2002. "At its March board meeting, the Pacifica board unanimously passed a resolution it negotiated with the strikers acknowledging the significant role they played in returning Pacifica to its historic mission, and pledging to end censorship of any programming throughout the...
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