Full Name
Laura Flanders
Company
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Speaker Bio
LAURA FLANDERS is the host and executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.
Flanders was previously co-host of CounterSpin, the weekly radio report from the media watch group FAIR and reported from Central America, the Middle East and Europe for media outlets like In These Times, New Directions For Women, Ms., Outweek, The Nation, and Pacifica Radio. In 2008, Flanders founded GRITtv, a daily national news show that covered the Financial Crisis from the grassroots up.
The Laura Flanders Show launched on public television stations in September 2020. The same year, Flanders received a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation “for her tireless work as an independent journalist, interviewing activists who are creating solutions to economic injustice and catastrophic environmental destruction. Her body of work helps the American public begin to imagine alternatives.”
Flanders' books include Blue Grit, Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Change in America, (Penguin Press, 2008); BUSHWOMEN, Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Real Majority, Media Minority, The High Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997).
Website: lauraflanders.org
Flanders was previously co-host of CounterSpin, the weekly radio report from the media watch group FAIR and reported from Central America, the Middle East and Europe for media outlets like In These Times, New Directions For Women, Ms., Outweek, The Nation, and Pacifica Radio. In 2008, Flanders founded GRITtv, a daily national news show that covered the Financial Crisis from the grassroots up.
The Laura Flanders Show launched on public television stations in September 2020. The same year, Flanders received a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation “for her tireless work as an independent journalist, interviewing activists who are creating solutions to economic injustice and catastrophic environmental destruction. Her body of work helps the American public begin to imagine alternatives.”
Flanders' books include Blue Grit, Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Change in America, (Penguin Press, 2008); BUSHWOMEN, Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Real Majority, Media Minority, The High Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997).
Website: lauraflanders.org
