History

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2006

Justin Beck becomes a Producer

2005

Tena Rubio comes on board as Senior Producer.

New National Radio Project website is launched.

Pauline Bartolone comes on board as an Associate Producer.

Peace & Real Security Initiative launched.

2004

National Radio Project celebrates 10 years

Aimée Pomerleau becomes Production Director.

Justin Beck comes on board as an Associate Producer.

Queer Youth Collaborative with KPFA’s Apprenticeship Program is launched.

ElectionWatch ’04: monthly edition of Making Contact, which focused on election-year issues.

2003

Welfare Radio Collaborative is formalized with Women of Color Resource Center.

Lisa Rudman becomes Executive Director.

2002

Civil Liberties Initiative launched.

2001

Live Wire Independent News: a pilot daily news program during February, collaborating with community radio stations and independent media centers.

Beyond Headlines: eight month series produced weekly in response to the events of 9/11.

The Media Collaborative on Colombia is formalized.

2000

UnConventional Coverage 2000: Live daily coverage from the Democratic and Republican conventions hosted by Norman Solomon and Elizabeth Robinson.

Shereen Marisol Meraji becomes an Associate Producer.

Laura Livoti becomes Managing Director of National Radio Project.

Ongoing fiscal sponsorship established for ARPAS Association of micro-stations in El Salvador.

Inside Capital: Special programs produced with Free Speech Radio News from the D.C. meetings and protests of the IMF and World Bank.

The Prison Desk is formalized with Eli Rosenblatt as its first Coordinator.

1999

World Trade Watch: Live daily coverage from the WTO and the battle of Seattle with Julie Light of Corporate Watch and Norman Solomon as hosts.

Stephanie Welch joins National Radio Project as an Associate Producer.

Fiscal sponsorship initiated for the East Timor Radio Collective.

1998

Making Contact breaks through the 130-stations mark.

Ongoing fiscal sponsorship set up for Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) in Costa Rica.

The Women’s Desk formalized with Lisa Rudman as its first Coordinator.

1997

Helped establish the Institute for Public Accuracy.

Phillip Babich comes on board as Managing Producer and Making Contact host.

1996

International Media Project formed as the non-profit, with Peggy Law as Executive Director.

UnConventional Coverage ’96: live daily coverage from the Democratic and Republican conventions.

1995

Special coverage of the Media Democracy Conference with Janine Jackson, Laura Flanders and Norman Solomon.

Janice Leber begins producing Making Contact on her home cassette machine.

1994

A small group of community activists, journalists and dreamers met in an Oakland café to discuss how to counter the new proliferation of “hate radio” – a genre brought to new lows by Rush Limbaugh and company. The National Radio Project and its flagship radio series grew out of those discussions. An experiment of 13 weekly programs titled Making Contact began.