Daily radio/TV news programs /
podcasts
Citizen Radio is a weekday
internet radio show “for young people disillusioned with corporate media and a
political system that doesn't speak to them.”
It is hosted by Allison Kilkenny and Jamie
Kilstein.
http://wearecitizenradio.com/
Democracy Now! is a national,
daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy
Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in
the U.S.,
Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica,
NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public
access,
PBS, satellite television (
DISH
network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410;
DIRECTV:
Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast
is one of the most popular on the web.
http://www.democracynow.org
Free Speech Radio News 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 the Pacifica Radio Network, as well
as community radio stations across the US and listener-donors. The
newscast is hosted by Dorian Merina, and is independently distributed by FSRN,
as well as by the Pacifica
radio network.
http://www.fsrn.org
Majority Report started on Air America as a
daily radio program co-hosted by Janeane Garafolo and Sam Seder.
In November 2010 it was relaunched by Seder
as a self-produced online podcast.
http://majority.fm/
The Rick Smith Show In 2005, The
Rick Smith Show stepped into a local radio world devoid of progressive talk. On
a small country & western station, Rick took his Teamster-member outlook to
the air and started mixing it up with conservatives from one of the reddest
areas north of the Mason Dixon line. His show grew steadily, attracting
listeners starved for a voice that spoke to working stiffs who felt the
economic floor crumbling beneath them.
http://ricksmithshow.com/
Uprising [daily edition] Uprising
Radio was founded in July 2003 by Sonali Kolhatkar, host and lead producer of
Uprising. Uprising emphasizes connecting global issues with local ones. Simply
informing listeners of the problems in the world and our communities is not
enough – we hope to motivate our listeners to take an active role in their
communities.
Uprising airs daily on
KPFK, Pacifica in Southern California from 8-9
am on weekdays, Pacific Standard Time (If you live outside the Southern California area, you can listen to Uprising live
every day by
clicking here).
Uprising also has a
Weekly Edition that uses
the best of our national and international programming from the daily
show.
http://uprisingradio.org/home/
Workers’ Independent News A
nationwide news service focusing on issues that affect the daily lives of
working people and their communities. News by and about working people. WIN producers
gather news from labor unions and activists from across the country. WIN then
packages the material for distribution to radio stations and for print
publication.
Our producers and reporters
come from a diverse background encompassing all fields of media journalism,
from print to radio, video to the Web. We share one common goal: to create
media that puts people over profits and empowers citizens to become journalists
in their own right.
http://www.laborradio.org
The Young Turks is an Internet
talk show distributed via live-stream and You Tube.
Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, it
previously aired on Air America
and Sirius Satellite Radio.
http://www.theyoungturks.com/
Weekly radio news programs / podcasts
Activist Radio is a weekly program
for all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US population.
Activist Radio attempts to show how the
wealthy few lie to the rest of us to expand their power and wealth.
http://www.classwars.org/
Alternative Radio is a weekly
one-hour public affairs program featuring speakers like Chip Berlet, Noam
Chomsky, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Robert Fisk, Bill Fletcher, Glenn
Greenwald, William Greider, Chris Hedges, Seymour Hersh, Jonathan Kozol, Naomi
Klein, George Lakoff, Manning Marable, Bill Moyers, Greg Palast, Michael
Parenti, Kevin Phillips, Frances Fox Piven, Jeremy Scahill, Robert Scheer,
Cornel West, and Howard Zinn.
Alternative Radio provides information, analyses and views that
are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
http://www.alternativeradio.org
America’s Disappeared Produced by Gary Idleburg, this program looks
at the justice system in America. The
program looks at the problems faced by prisoners, the community, society and
the justice system and offers suggestions on how it could be made fairer and
more just.
http://www.kser.org/content/americas-disappeared
Behind the News: Economics from a Left
perspective is an hour-long, weekly program aired on KPFA.
It has been hosted since 1996 by Doug
Henwood, the editor of the
Left Business
Observer.
Behind the News covers the worlds of economics and politics and
their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Shows typically
consist of some opening comments by host Doug Henwood on the recent news,
followed by two or three interviews with authors, activists, academics, and
other knowledgeable sorts. Since mystification is one of the tricks that power
uses to maintain itself, emphasis is always placed on clarifying the complex.
http://www.kpfa.org/behindthenews
Topics covered include the broad economy and the financial markets, trade
and globalization, income distribution and poverty, political candidates (with
an emphasis on their general bogosity), Latin American resistance to
neoliberalism, crime and imprisonment, financing health care, environmental
economics, and the culture of money. Of course, that list will evolve as
circumstances warrant.
Between the Lines Since 1991,
non-commercial, listener-supported WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
has produced a weekly, award-winning public affairs show called
Between the
Lines. A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast
Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated,
half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from
progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream
media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social
topics.
http://www.btlonline.org/
Each program begins with a five-minute summary of some of the week's
under-reported news stories gathered from the alternative press. This summary
is followed by three five-minute interview segments focusing on significant
international, national and regional issues.
Building Bridges: Your Community Labor
Report Our beat is the labor front,
broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of
work and workers on the job as well as where they live. We examine the issues
that affect their everyday lives, with a particular sensitivity towards human
rights abuses, environmental concerns and the U.S. drive for global domination.
We record their global struggles and provide analysis of their efforts to
empower themselves and transform society to provide greater democratic, human,
social, political and economic rights. Each program consists of feature
stories, generally interviews, within a historical context, often accompanied by
sound from demonstrations, rallies or conferences, and complemented and
enhanced by poetry and instrumental or vocal -- people's culture.
http://www.buildingbridgesonline.org/
CounterSpin is a weekly radio show
hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart.
It is a project of FAIR, Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=5
CounterSpin provides a critical examination
of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might
have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin
exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism,
racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and
goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news' narrow political spectrum; attacks on
free speech; and more.
Economic Update
A revolutionary take on a massive set of problems: Capitalism's
failings and today's global economic crisis. Every Saturday,
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of
the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis. They
focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits.
The goal is to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other
changes get postponed or blocked and they will explore alternative ways to
organize enterprises, markets, and government policies.
The show is for people who want to understand
and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy
we all depend on.
http://www.truth-out.org/economic-update-your-weekly-dose-revolutionary-economics/1310498361
Flashpoints is an award-winning daily
investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network.
Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our
time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the
areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic
justice.
http://www.flashpoints.net/
Freethought Radio is a weekly radio show
produced by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
It airs live every Saturday on The Mic 92.1
in Madison, Wis. and (as of Saturday 6 October
2007) on Air America,
streamed online, and available as a podcast.
http://www.freethoughtradio.com/
Green Revolution http://greenrevolutionradio.com/
The Green Revolution radio show focuses on the world of green products,
services, lifestyles and issues. The program's goal is to facilitate
ecological balance, and is intended for individuals that wish to do the
same. The host is Jon McLane, an expert in clean water systems.
Guests are professionals in sustainability, resource conservation, and quality
green products and services.
Guns and Butter: The Economics of
Politics is a weekly hour-long
program hosted by Bonnie Faulker and broadcast on KPFA in Los Angeles.
It investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and
politics.
Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September
11th attacks,
Guns & Butter
reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society
are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a
national security state.
http://www.kpfa.org/guns-and-butter
The Heartland Labor Forum is a weekly hour-long program on workplace
and economic issues produced by the Institute for Labor Studies at the University of Missouri
– Kansas City.
http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/radio.htm
Labor Express is a production of
the Chicago Committee for Labor Access that airs weekly on WLUW.
It covers the labor movement locally, nationally,
and internationally, including living wage campaigns, health care, education,
immigrants’ rights, the environment, and issues of race and gender.
http://www.laborexpress.org/
Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing
on several stations across the United
States and podcasting on the web.
The program gives listeners access to rare
legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to
dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government.
This program examines the political forces and legislation that are moving the United States
into a police state.
http://lawanddisorder.org/
Making Contact is
a weekly radio program of the National Radio Project that focusses on criminal
justice and prisons, the environment, globalization, labor issues, and women’s
issues.
http://www.radioproject.org
Media Matters with Bob
McChesney Robert W. McChesney
is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The
media are central to all our lives," he says. "Yet the media are the
most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people
understand the role of media in society."
http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/
New World Notes is both
a blog and a weekly radio program. Each examines political & social issues
from a progressive perspective and with humor. The content includes commentary
from the program's creator, Kenneth Dowst ... recorded talk from others ...
stories from the alternative press read aloud ... graphics ... and music with a
message.
http://www.newworldnotes.blogspot.com/
The Progressive Radio is a weekly
half-hour radio show hosted by Matthew Rothschild, editor of
The Progressive
magazine.
Since 2003, Rothschild has
been interviewing activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a
better place.
http://www.progressive.org
Uprising [weekly national
edition] Uprising Radio was
founded in July 2003 by Sonali Kolhatkar, host and lead producer of Uprising.
Uprising emphasizes connecting global issues with local ones. Simply informing
listeners of the problems in the world and our communities is not enough – we
hope to motivate our listeners to take an active role in their
communities.
Uprising also has a weekly
edition that uses the best of our national and international programming from
the daily show. The
Weekly
Edition is syndicated nationally.
http://uprisingradio.org/home/
War News Radio is a weekly, 29-minute program established in 2005 by
students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. It seeks to fill the gaps in the media’s
coverage by airing new perspectives, both personal and historical, in a
balanced and in-depth manner. http://warnewsradio.org/