Reporting resumes.
FSRN began in 2000 as a nonprofit, listener-supported wire covering the international and domestic stories that the corporate press routinely missed. It went dark in 2017 after seventeen years on the air.
We’re bringing the archive and the mission back online — the first dispatches below are live now.
To report the international and domestic stories the corporate press routinely overlooks — and to put the voices of the people most affected by the news at the center of the story, not on the sidelines.
That mission didn’t end in 2017. It’s why the archive is back online.
From the Archive
Original FSRN reporting from 2000–2017, republished from the archive with attribution to the original reporters. See our full licensing policy.
Verizon Challenges FCC’s Open Internet Rule in Federal Appeals Court
Verizon takes its case against the FCC’s open-internet rules to federal court, in a fight over how much control internet providers have over the traffic on their networks.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: When a Child Dies
Drought in India Generates Economic Crisis and Farmer Suicides
FSRN Announces Its Last Newscast Will Air September 27
Uruguay Passes Bill to Allow Citizens to Choose Gender Identity
Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Released — A Look at What’s Inside
Energy Companies Eye Argentina Shale Deposits, Meet Fracking Opposition
Activists Urge End to US Foreign Military Bases
Egyptian Blogger Wael Khalil on What Opposition Activists Plan Next
Puerto Rico Halts Controversial Vía Verde Pipeline Project
Did Israel Use “Cancer Bombs” in Recent Gaza Attack? (Web-Only Special)
New York Parents Urge Boycott of High-Stakes Testing in Public Schools
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Charleston Shooting
Yale Law School Panel Takes Stock of Government Overreach and Secrecy
Speech: Obama Shifts War Rhetoric on Iraq, Afghanistan
Five beats, one mission: the stories the wire services skip.
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Archived stories on this site are original FSRN reporting from 2000–2017, republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, with full attribution to the original reporters. Read our full licensing policy →