Media Outlet / Personality: Pacifica

Pioneering the listener-supported community radio station model, Pacifica began as an alternative to commercially funded radio in 1949. The network is composed of five sister stations and affiliate stations throughout the U.S. It is governed by Pacifica Foundation’s listener-member elected national board. It produces Democracy Now! and Free Speach Radio News.


Extra!: On Iran, an Unsmoking Nongun: Nuclear report doesn’t say what media want it to (January 2012) By Peter Hart

Media Advisory: CPB Funding Threatened...Again: Time to fight for an independent funding source (6/8/06)

Extra!: 20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

Media Beat: Determined Struggle Brings A Radio Network Back To Life (1/10/02) By Norman Solomon

Action Alert: Pacifica Refuses To Distribute Democracy Now! (8/14/01)

Extra!: Censorship at 'Free-Speech Radio': Pacifica stations delete information about the network’s crisis (Update June 2001) By Steve Rendall

Action Alert: Let Democracy Now! Be Heard: (5/29/01)

Press Release: Pacifica Silences Discussion; Listeners Lose Out (3/28/01)

Press Release: Support Grows for Dissenting Pacifica Board Members (2/6/01)

Press Release: Award-Winning Pacifica Reporter Resigns In Protest (1/31/01)

Action Alert: Lockout at WBAI (12/26/00)

Press Release: Pacifica Management Moves to Undermine WBAI'S Independence (12/1/00)

Media Advisory: Coast to Coast Protests to Support "Democracy Now!" (10/24/00)

Action Alert: "Democracy Now!" in Danger (10/19/00)

Press Release: FAIR's Letter to Pacifica in Support of PNN Stikers (1/31/00)

Press Release: FAIR Deplores Loss of Pacifica Radio Anchor, Seeks End to the Hemorrhaging at 50-Year-Old Network (1/19/00)

Action Alert: Pacifica's WPFW Axes CounterSpin: Media Criticism Show Cancelled After Three Earlier Instances of Censorship (12/10/99)

Press Release: Prominent Progressives Suggest New Board Members for Pacifica Radio (10/28/99)

Extra!: Selling Off Pacifica? (Update October 1999)

Press Release: Pacifica Leadership Should Step Down for Good of Network (7/16/99)

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Pacifica Radio
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Radio Free Speech Is Being Denied in New York, by Rep. Major Owens (3/8/01)