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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 Manuel Rueda, the newscast relies on over two hundred
freelance reporters, "on every continent
except Antarctica", who use the Internet to deliver their audio
reports.[1]
Staff
Features Producer: Catherine Komp
Assistant Producer: Vinod K. Jose
Interim Host: Manuel Rueda
Headlines Producers: Nell Abrams and Jes Burns
DC Editor: Leigh Ann Caldwell
Technical Producers: Puck Lo and Rose Ketabchi
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 network."[2] Free
Speech Radio News was formed in 2000 as an independent newscast by
the strikers and has remained an independent program since that
time. Since March 2002, FSRN has been aired and distributed by the
Pacifica Network, and received major financial support from
Pacifica.
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