Incisive news and analysis in the service of peace and social justice
FSRN is the only daily half-hour progressive radio newscast in the U.S. It is owned and managed by news reporters. FSRN is an independent broadcast news organization born in January 2000 as the result of a strike by 43 reporters who formerly worked for Pacifica Network News (PNN).

The history of Free Speech Radio News & the PNN stringers' strike
Free Speech Radio News was founded by freelance journalists ("stringers") who went on strike against the nation's oldest progressive news service -- Pacifica Network News in January 2000. The strike by over 40 freelance reporters marked a national turning point in the battle to save the progressive character of the Pacifica Radio network, which was under assault from within by a corporate clique on its national board. In response to the censorship, firings and bannings that had become a way of life at Pacifica, the freelancers launched one of the most important strikes by a contingent labor force in recent decades. FSRN quickly replaced PNN on the vast majority of Pacifica's 60 affiliates. Over the next two years, the global picketline of freelancers grew to over 150, as progressive reporters from around the world refused to work for Pacifica Network News and joined the strikers in producing Free Speech Radio News. In early 2002, the new community-controlled Pacifica Board cancelled PNN (see Pacifica's press release) and settled the freelancers' strike by passing a resolution acknowledging the essential role the strike played in returning Pacifica to its mission and pledging no censorship within the network (see FSRN's press release). FSRN continues to produce news for the Pacifica network as an independent worker-run collective.