Young, courageous and entrepreneurial Arab broadcasters are not waiting for government change.
In the midst of this fall's all-consuming fiscal cliff debate, the Federal Communications Commission is about to make a little-watched decision that could have a tremendous impact on the way people in the United States get news.
"Listeners could hear the saw at the Bethlehem Steel factory and hear workers changing shifts; hear a little bell at the Pillsbury factory and street sounds and airplanes coming in. The idea was that natural sounds could be heard as music and you could check what the city sounded like over time."
Palestine's experience of capturing airwaves in a period of transition was of extreme interest to media activists from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mild-mannered community activist Albert Knighten found himself in handcuffs last month when police and federal agents raided ...
About a month ago, a team of journalists in Haiti released a nine-article study of a massive seed distribution that took place after the earthquake la...
College radio is part of the diverse package of community media voices around the country that keep the radio waves open to the public, training millions of young people in technology.
The Mr. Smith in question is Gordon Smith, who is persuading his former colleagues to use a rolling series of secret holds to keep a bill off the floor that would create thousands of new hyper-local community radio stations.
I often hear, as a Pacifica Foundation board member that terrestrial radio in general and Pacifica radio in particular, is irrelevant. I would make t...
Ever had one of those weeks where the distance between what was said and what was done stretches way out into the blue yonder? In my job as director o...
After nearly a decade on the front lines, Tino was assigned to La Voz Popular, the short-wave radio station that transmitted the voice of the Guatemalan resistance.
KOTO, the community radio station in Telluride, Colorado, is one of the few stations left in the U.S. that is completely free of commercials and personal underwriting.
Despite winning the license to privatize, Jordan has failed to create a legal environment or introduce traditions that encourage and improve public service broadcasting.
Women from the Jordan valley produce programming from their community. We are able to do what appears to be an illegal act in a totally legal way.
