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April 28, 2017

Free Speech Radio News to End After 17 Years of Grassroots Reporting
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After 17 years on the air, one of the longest running community news
programs, Free Speech Radio News, will go dark after its last weekly
broadcast today. The worker-run news collective produced a daily
newshour for the Pacifica Radio network until 2014, when it switched to
weekly. FSRN helped pioneer a decentralized grassroots model for
independent international journalism with reporters covering issues in
their communities but says it has struggled to find "firm financial
footing."


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