WBAI, New York City - 99.5 FM - Programs

WBAI News Staff:
Jose Santiago, News Director; Andrea Sears, News Editor; Ginger Otis, Reporter; Eric Williams, Reporter; Sally O'Brien, Sunday News Editor; Barbara Day, Sunday News Editor; Commentators: John Hess; Prisoner X.

Contributing reporters and interns:
Melissa Mark Viverito, Eddie Rodriguez, Omar Bobb-Semple, Ronnie Sykes, Nadja Middleton, Martha Cruz, Ernest Loesser, Jane Madembo

Local, national, and international news stories are produced daily at WBAI's studios in New York by an award-winning staff of seasoned journalists in collaboration with community news trainees and volunteers. The Evening News provides in-depth coverage and analysis of the critical stories and issues that affect the WBAI listening area and beyond. The Evening News has led other New York area news organizations in coverage of a range of issues - nuclear power; women's rights; police brutality and racial profiling; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights; prisoners' rights; and many other areas traditionally glossed over or ignored by corporate media.

The Evening News internship program has served as a portal for many radio novices who have gone on to produce programming for WBAI; Pacifica; National Public Radio; American Urban Radio Network; Latino USA; Free Speech Radio News; radio stations WINS, WNYC, and WFUV in New York; NBC; and more.

The WBAI News Department is currently embarked on a major expansion effort aimed at presenting more news across the day's broadcast schedule and bringing more community voices to the Evening News and the WBAI airwaves in general. We are also developing a network of community correspondents, individuals who will be trained to report news from their respective communities across the WBAI tri-state listening area. Both efforts involve an outreach effort, the scale of which has never before been attempted at WBAI. It will take time, but in the end, is expected to make WBAI's news programming the most inclusive and expansive in the tri-state area.

Additionally, we have begun making available on this Website sound files of each evening newscast within several hours of its airing. Each night's file remains posted until the posting of the next edition, which then replaces it. To listen to the most recent newscast, click here.

Barbara Day, WBAI Sunday News Editor: Kiplinger Fellow, The Ohio State University Graduate School of Journalism; WBAI News Director, 1983-1986; Staff Writer, Guardian Radical Newsweekly; English Lecturer, CUNY. Overseas reporting assignments have included Brazzaville, Socialist Republic of the Congo; Managua and Bluefield, Nicaragua, and Vienna, Austria.
(212) 209-2977
sundaynews@wbai.org

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Sally O'Brien, WBAI Sunday News Editor, is a progressive journalist and media activist. Her journalistic career began in 1980 in the WBAI News Department. She has served as street reporter, Associate News Director, Interim Public Affairs Director, and Executive Producer of several programs at WBAI. She also designed and ran a News Department at WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Mass. She has written for The Nation (magazine), The Guardian, The City Sun, and The Advocate, among others. Currently an audio engineer with UN Radio, Sally also reports weekly to Associated Press "Special Edition" and Maryknoll Radio "Voices of Our World," and is currently working with the Peoples Video Network on a monthly cable program "Activist News." A longtime activist and organizer, Sally does media work on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and other US political prisoners, the Jericho Movement and the Justice Committee of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights. She is also co-producer and co-host of the WBAI Programs Where We Live and Cuba in Focus.
(212) 209-2977
sundaynews@wbai.org

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Ginger Otis, WBAI News Reporter, graduated from Boston University with a degree in Comparative Literature. She began volunteering for WBAI in the fall of 1999, and joined our staff in the summer of 2000. Ginger writes regularly for several print outlets, such as The Village Voice, and In These Times; she speaks fluent Spanish & French, and basic Portuguese.
gotis@wbai.org

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