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Community Radio Poised for a Big Comeback as Activists Free the Airwaves
(Photo: MikeWebkist) Do you support Truthout's reporting and analysis? Click here to help fund it. For several years, Luis Avila produced an acclaimed youth radio show in the Phoenix, …
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Murder of a Nobody
Kevin Sibbitt, a 911 Dispatcher, listens to a call. (Photo: JBLM PAO / Flickr)Victim on Lot 5 Diane Clemmons Belton was a nobody. For a time, years ago, after …
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Governments Around the World Grapple with Nonprofit Journalism
In Free Press’ 2011 report on international models for public media, we noted how many of the changes we are witnessing in the American media landscape are also happening …
What We Do: A Comic About Women in the Labor Force
The last installment of Ladydrawers looked at gendered discrepencies in media hiring practices (catch up on all the strips here) and how the gender of the labor pool might …
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Why the Kochs Matter
Charles and David Koch became national news about two years ago when a Jane Mayer exposé in the New Yorker revealed the billionaire brothers were funding "stealth attacks on …
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Remembering Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace at his office in New York, Feb. 14, 2002. Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation's best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the …
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Gloria Steinem: “Valuing Women’s Work“
The truth was (and still is) that in the United States, as in almost every country, categories of work are less likely to be paid by the expertise they …
Eyes on the Prize: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lessons for Occupy
When he was assassinated in April, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had just begun “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This focus on economic injustice, which included plans for a mass …
Who Pays for Political Ads?
Great efforts are underway both locally and nationally to keep secret the identities of people and organizations paying for local political advertisements. But Americans can still do something, even …
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In Lille, the Left Front “Has Broken Its Banks“
Translated by Kristina Wischenkamper and Bill Scoble. After the retaking of the Bastille on 18 March by a mass of 120,000 people, the Left Front struck another blow on Tuesday …