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February 28, 2024 Media
NPR Host Asks, ‘Where can I add value? What aspect of the story is missing?’
This is the last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”
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March 15, 2018 Media,
Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Maria Hinojosa
The fifth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”
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The Feminist Revolution Will Be Podcasted
The last thing one might expect young people to listen to is talk radio, yet we are doing so in force and at increasing rates. In fact, the number of shows produced increased from 69,860 in 2009 to ne...
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Julie Z on Feminist Magazine Radio
Wednesday night, I was a guest on Feminist Magazine Radio! Feminist Magazine Radio is "on the air to educate, advocate, inform, and entertain through a variety of feminist lenses. We provide the tool...
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New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women Owned Radio Stations
In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
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Chicago Radio Station Owner at the Crossroads
When civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963, more than 50,000 callers flooded WVON (1690 AM), then known as “Voice of the Negro”; so many callers, in fact, that they caused a meltdo...