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Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hear from former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and other guests Tuesday morning on the role that Bush Administration lawyers played in creating, developing, and implementing interrogation & torture policies at Guantanamo. Feith was one of the architects of the Bush Administration's legal and policy ...

From Radio Online: The probe sought by the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age on Arbitron's PPM is dead before it started. The FCC set it aside after discovering that Arbitron had no opportunity to participate or respond in the July 2 conference call that ultimately ...

Free Speech Radio News, a half-hour daily news show, is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the Technical Producer position.  This position is 25 hours per week and is located at KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California.  The Tech Producer is responsible for assembling the final newscast.  This is ...

The Denver Fundraising Coordinator works under the general supervision of the Station Manager. This is a full-time position based at KGNU’s Denver studio with one day per week spent at KGNU’s Boulder studio. We seek a Fundraising Coordinator who can strengthen our existing donor relationships in the Denver area, develop ...

Sean Heitkemper has been announced as the new general manager of KPFK in Los Angeles. Sonali Kolhatkar notes: At only 36 years of age, Sean has more than 13 years of experience managing public radio stations. He is a native of Southern California, majored in political science at Cal State Long ...

Kudos this week to the Technology Liberation Front, a tech policy blog "dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology " The site just completed a four-part analysis on the FCC v. Pacifica case and offered tons of great tidbits, history and more. The full series ...

On Wednesday, July 2, from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m., join KPFT's Arab Voices with guest Dr. Lara Deeb, assistant professor of women's studies in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine, a cultural anthropologist who has spent extensive time researching community activism in the southern suburbs ...

Immediate opening for full-time Manager of Spanish Outreach & Programming Democracy Now! is a daily, non-profit, national, independent news hour based in New York City. In 2005 we launched Democracy Now! en espanol to produce, market and distribute Spanish language translations of Democracy Now! content. Today, 200 stations broadcast either our ...

Great to see that Pacifica, which broadcast the late George Carlin's legendary monologue, finally gets some press for it, amid remembrances of Carlin's passing. The Feisty Station That Defended Carlin’s ‘Seven Words’ Looks Back by Glenn Collins New York Times 06/25/08 As the encomiums for George Carlin have rolled in from stand-up legends, celebrities and ...

This past Wednesday, the KPFT Local Station met and considered several proposals. I wanted to post about two of them. KPFT's LSB passed a resolution calling for the Pacifica National Board to discontinue its in-person meetings in the interest of saving money. KPFT is among all the Pacifica station facing financial ...

Not Texas, but exciting news for one of my favorite towns... METROEAST COMMUNITY MEDIA AND COALITION OF COMMUNITY GROUPS ACQUIRE RADIO LICENSE GRESHAM, Ore., May 16, 2008-MetroEast Community Media, in collaboration with a coalition of community groups, received word this week that its application for a non-commercial educational (NCE) radio station has ...

On Friday, the national broadcast "Celebrating Marriage Equality" will make history as the first major live broadcast of a legally recognized wedding in California. In mid-May, the California Supreme Court ruled that people have a fundamental right to marry the person of their choice. KPFT will broadcast today at 10 ...

by Malkia A. Cyril and Jen Soriano, Center for Media Justice. Originally posted at Reclaim the Media. Conservative Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has done it again. Sensationalism, exaggeration, and inaccuracy are the cornerstones of Right-wing punditry- so it wasn't surprising when Bill O’Reilly ripped the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform ...

Technology and the Internet are changing politics and democracy. At the bipartisan 2008 Personal Democracy Forum, the nation's top political professionals, technologists, and nonprofit executives will gather to discuss the future of democracy and advocacy in our networked world. Discover how social technology can be harnessed to advance issues and ideas, ...

On Thursday, June 26, Pacifica Radio will broadcast the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on torture. David Addington, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President, and Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo will testify. Pacifica’s broadcast will start at 8 a.m., anchored from Capitol ...