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Active Voice Radio: Green Gone Wrong - How Our Economy Is Undermining the Enviornmental Revolution
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Green Gone Wrong cover
Are new methods to help the environment solutions or scams? Independent journalist and author Heather Rogers traveled the globe to get the scoop on...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Out With the Old
From: War News Radio
Caption: Men dance during the celebration of the Nowruz holiday in Kabul., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
The Nigerian Political Crisis/Celebrating International Women's Day
From: My Lens Media
Series: Home from Home
Caption: Home, from Home
Nigerian commentator Okey Ndibe provides his (forthright) take on the uncertainty surrounding the return of Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua. For...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Independent Minds: Jack Kevorkian
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.

Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
Ballot Battles
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi election official checks the seals on a ballot box at a polling station after the polls closed for special voting in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. The polls opened Wednesday for members of the Iraqi security forces, detainees and hospi, Credit: The Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
I (G)Love Haiti: Numa Perrier
From: My Lens Media
Series: Home from Home
Caption: Numa Perrier
How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Best of Fall 2009
From: War News Radio
Caption: The National Museum of Iraq, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jan 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
NJ man with MS faces marijuana charges, supporters demonstrate
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: supporters at the Somerset County Courthouse 12/14/09, Credit: Chris Goldstein
John Wilson faces first degree felony charges usually used against cocaine kingpins. Now he faces up to 35 years in state prison for having 17 mari...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow - In Defense of ©
From: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Series: Radio Berkman
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Cory Doctorow -- a longtime supporter of remixing and free culture, who releases his books under Creative Commons licenses -- now throws his weight...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 39:09
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Foot Dragging Produces Dioxin Delays
From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays
Caption: The southeast corner of the Dow Chemical plant, from the vantage of Midland's Whiting Overlook Park, which features an homage to and history of the company and its founder., Credit: Shawn Allee
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to clean up the dioxin. Shawn Allee looks for an answer.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
A Food Desert in California's Breadbasket
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...

Bought by KVNF and KVMR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
An Immigrant Family Torn Apart
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The story of “Kathy”… a 9-year-old whose life was turned upside down after her parents were arrested during a workplace raid.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 1
Parental Rights
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Michelle Kulstad and her lawyers, Credit: Helena Independent Record
Landmark decision in favor of parents -- of any sexual orientation

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 02:03
News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media- Part Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media
Caption: Feb. 12, 2009 plane crash near Clarence, N.Y., as photographed by citizen journalist "Traceur Zero" for CNN's iReport, Credit: Courtesy CNN
Two one-hour CBC Radio programs about changes to our understanding of 'journalism' now that anyone can create, report and publish news.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KQED, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 53:07
  • Purchases: 7
News 2.0: The Future of News in the Age of Social Media- Part One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media
Caption: Feb. 12, 2009 plane crash near Clarence, N.Y., as photographed by citizen journalist "Traceur Zero" for CNN's iReport, Credit: Courtesy CNN
Two one-hour CBC Radio programs about changes to our understanding of 'journalism' now that anyone can create, report and publish news.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KQED, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 52:14
  • Purchases: 7
Best of Summer '09
From: War News Radio
Caption: Cranes tower over a construction site in Irbil., Credit: Associated Press
News and Features on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Letting Them Down
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
“Ivy League Refugee”
From: Ellis Cose
Series: Against The Odds
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Ivy League Refugee is the pilot program in Ellis Cose's Against The Odds radio documentary series.

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
High School Senior Weighs Options
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Like a lot of high school seniors, Mayra Jimenez is weighing her options after graduation, and hoping to be college bound but not broke.

Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Michigan Radio Economy Special


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 3
The Cost of War
From: War News Radio
Caption: Iraq War veterans carry Tomas Young up the Capitol steps in Washington DC, Credit: Kevin McKinney / Mobilus Media
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
A New Morality for Capitalism?
From: Bill Baue
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William Greider talks about a new moral order for capitalism, drawing from his new book COME HOME, AMERICA: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promis...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:37
One Story of Disability Care in New Mexico
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
International Women's Day, Los Angeles
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
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Hundreds rallied in West Los Angeles in support of International Women's Day.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:42

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