On Saturday, the Pacifica National Board announced the hire of longtime public radio broadcaster Nicole Sawaya as Executive Director of Pacifica. Sawaya, whose firing as KPFA General Manager in 1999 shocked KPFA staff and listeners and led to a crisis which rocked Pacifica, will start her tenure in mid-November.
The Pacifica Foundation is the parent organization [...]
Mitch Jeserich takes over as the Executive Producer of KPFA’s Morning Show. Jeserich is an accomplished radio journalist, producer and anchor, who until recently was the News Editor for Wakeup Call, the morning show of Pacifica station WBAI in New York. He’s also the co-founder of the New York City-based Community News Production Institute, [...]
Just a reminder that the closing date for the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund Standard Grant is Monday, October 1, at 5 p.m. Or if your application is ready before then you are very welcome to submit it early!
The Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund is funded by Irish Aid. It is a grant scheme aimed [...]
This just in: Former KPFA manager Nicole Sawaya was named today as the Pacifica Foundation’s new Executive Director during the Pacifica National Board meeting in Berkeley. Sawaya was at the center of a long struggle within Pacifica following her work at KPFA.
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FYI from Berkeley: word is an Executive Director decision is expected this weekend’s Pacifica National Board meeting. Stay tuned.
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Many local programmers want to take their shows “national,” or receive program distribution to stations around the country. This evolution is perfectly understandable when a person thinks her/his show is really good. Before you go down the national syndication/distribution road, as a program director, I want to give prospective national programmers some tips to follow [...]
Please join us Saturday, September 29 for a Five Year Anniversary Celebration of the Houston Institute for Culture from 6:00-8:00pm, followed by a talk and book signing by Dr. Alice Rothchild, author of “Broken Promises, Broken Dreams”, at 8:00pm.
Saturday, September 29, 6:00pm
Five Year Anniversary Celebration
Houston Institute for Culture
Havens Center
1827 W. Alabama Street
Houston Institute for Culture [...]
By ADAM LIPTAK
Via New York Times
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless last week rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
But the company reversed course this morning, saying it had made a mistake.
“The decision [...]
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The bylaws amendment to alter the election timeline was approved by KPFT’s board and will go into effect for the 2009 election cycle.
The amendment to hold elections in odd numbered years only and change term length from 3 to 4 years failed before KPFT’s board.
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An exciting development on the East Coast worth learning about and supporting. Also covers many of the complexities of such setups. Originally seen on the Boston Globe’s site.
Community radio looking for home
By Clea Simon
Boston Globe Correspondent
September 27, 2007
How does someone start a radio station? And why would anyone want to? These are the questions that [...]
KPFT 90.1 FM and community organizations invite you to participate in a Town Hall Meeting:
“Immigration: The Sacred Family” on Sunday, September 30 at 12:30-2:00 p.m.
It happens at the Edward James Olmos Latino Book and Family Festival, George R. Brown Convention Center-Hall A-3, GRB Stage. Participants and co-sponsors: ACORN, CRECEN, JIFM, Nuestra Palabra, Interfaith Workers Justice [...]
Effective October 1, KPFT will adjust its program schedule. These changes reflect your feedback and new collaboration between our staff, board and listeners via KPFT’s Program Council.
These changes are:
Living Art moves to Fridays at 1 p.m., while Century of Lies with Dean Becker moves to Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m.
Whole Mother returns to Monday mornings, at [...]
Thank you to the elections staff for being strict with this matter. KPFT’s staff candidate nomination period has been extended. This is in large part due to the fact Local Election Supervisor in Houston, Mark Muhich, with the assistance of former LES Tucker Bradley, has determined that none of the Staff candidates for LSB has [...]
Internews Network is currently seeking a Resident Journalism Advisor to be based in N’Djamena, Chad and lead a training project in N’Djamena and other locations within Chad. The Resident Advisor would set-up a training center in N’Djamena-Chad, and provide training to local journalists and managers from community radio stations from various locations in the country.
ESSENTIAL [...]
Mujeres Unidas needs help finding a ‘licensed’ kitchen
By Ana Amaya and Graciela Balderas,
We need your help. Mujeres Unidas/Women United is the Latina women and girls’ group in Fargo-Moorhead. It is the oldest grassroots Latino group and has been here since 1989. The group was founded by Sister Carmen Rodriguez and other Latina women. The group [...]
In case you missed Naomi Klein on Democracy Now!, here’s your chance to catch the recently crafted documentary on Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.
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Today, from 11 a.m. until midnight, KPFT Elections will hold an open house at KPFT studios, 419 Lovett Blvd. We’ll be celebrating the fourth-ever democratic elections at KPFT and honoring the many great programmers who donate their time to entertain and inform us. Please stop by, have a bite to eat, meet like-minded members who [...]
Perhaps I am cynical, but I don’t think blogs have an obligation to be connected to communities for us, or even bring us their stories. I expect us all to empower diverse communities to tell their stories on their terms, and for all of us to talk about a broader media justice movement, of which [...]
Three leading members of Congress endorsed FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein’s call for an independent, nonpartisan task force to address the disgracefully low levels of media ownership by people of color.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Hilda Solis (D-N.Y.) endorsed the creation of a task force in public statements and letters sent [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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