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Newspapers

  • Hinckley, Davis. "WBAI mines Pacifica Radio Archives' rich 50,000-tape library". NY Daily News 26 Nov. 2007.
  • "Naropa's audio archive crows over Howl." Denver Post Apr. 25 2005.
  • Peterson, Iver. "Ruffling Lef-Wing Feathers to Recharge Pacifica Radio." New York Times Dec. 29, 1997, C1.
  • Fisher, Marc. "On WPFW, The End of The Lines; Poet and the Poem' Goes off the Air". Washington Post May 20, 1997, E, 7:1.
  • Ibid. "Clamorously Pacifica Radio Dances Toward Mainstream." New York Times 12 May 1997, C9.
  • Buell, John. "Prisoners and the Rest of Us in Society". Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME) Apr. 29, 1997.
  • "Censorship Issues Radised in Silencing of Radio Show". New York Times 3 March 1997, A13.
  • Washington Post. "AIRING OF KILLER'S REMARKS FUELS NEW PROTESTS". The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) March 1, 1997, A15.
  • Ibid. "Pacifica Stations Bolt Over Convicted Killer's Commentary." Washington Post Feb. 5 1997, E1.
  • Tobar, Hector. "Mixed Sinals at KPFK." Los Angeles Times 17 Sept. 1996, A1.
  • Boudreau, John. "Pacifica, Setting the Dial for Battle". Washington Post Feb 21, 1995, D.
  • E. John Lewis, 78, Network Founder, Dies". New York Times Oct 17, 1994, B (Obituary).
  • Hardesty, Michael. "Duel on the Dial: Diversity and Self-Destruction on the Alternative Airwaves". Washington Post Oct. 24, 1993, C.
  • Puig, Claudia. "KPFK Offers a Lesson in Black Culture". Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 1991, F.
  • Bernstein, Sharon. "Pacifica: The Listener in the Hearing Room". Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 1990, F.
  • Parachini, Allan. "New Twist to the NEA Flap--Protecting Archives". Los Angeles Times Sept. 7, 1990, F.
  • Armstrong, David. "Little Network That Could". San Francisco Chronicle Apr. 30, 1989, E.
  • McDougal, Dennis. "Pacifica Radio Pushes First-Amendment Fight". Los Angeles Times March 28, 1989, VI.
  • "'Afrikan' Broadcast Airs Black Leaders". Los Angeles Sentinel Jan. 26, 1989, A.
  • Fisher, Marlo Jo. "L.A.'s Offbeat Archives Offer Special Kinds of Knowledge". Feb 5, 1989.

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Periodicals

  • Gail, Mitchell. " Allee Willis, Adoption Agent". Billboard magazine (March 17, 2007) www.billboard.biz
  • Albert, Michael. "Struggles at Pacifica, Part II: An Interview with Executive Director, Pat Scott." Z Magazine (March 1998).
  • Shears, Shawnn. "WPFW-FM: March Station of the Month". Community Radio News: Newsletter of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (March 1998).
  • Albert, Michael. "Struggles at Pacifica, Part I: An Interview with Executive Director, Pat Scott." Z Magazine (February 1998).
  • Flanders, Laura. "The Sound of Silence: Where are the Feminists in Talk Radio?". Ms. 7.3 (Nov. 1996): 74.
  • Vanamee, Norman. "Pinko is the man". New York 29.21 (May 27, 1996):17.
  • Gogola, Tom. "What's the frequency, Pacifica?" Village Voice 40.45 (Nov. 7, 1995): 14.
  • Land, Jeff. "Free Radio and the Claims of Community: Pacifica's Enduring Legacy." New Political Science 32 (Summer, 1995): 81-93.
  • Cockburn, Alexander. "Beat the Devil: Pacification Program". Nation 260.17 (May 1, 1995).
  • Chronicle of Philanthropy. 7.4 (May 1995): 42.
  • Stavitsky, Alan G. and Timothy w. Gleason. "Alternative Things Considered: A Comparison of National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio News Coverage." Journalism Quarterly71. 4 (Winter 1994).
  • Chrisman, Robert, David Salniker and Dick Bunce. "Pacifica Radio: Facing the Challenge of Multiculturalism--An Interview with Patricia Scott". Black Scholar 23.3-4 (Summer 1993).
  • Goodman, Rachel Anne and David Armstrong. "Uneasy Listening". Utne Reader 57 (May 1993): 105.
  • "Only in America: Financing for Pacifica Network Radio Stations Through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting". National Review 45.4 (1993): 20.
  • Hellinger, Daniel. "From Columbia U. J-School to Radio Havana". St. Louis Journalism Review 22.151 (Nov. 1992):16.
  • Fisher, Marc. "Pacifica's Next Wave: Pacifica Radio Network Anniversary." Mother Jones 14.4 (May 1989): 50.
  • "Tilters". Nation 248.10 (March 13, 1989): 328.
  • Gayoso, Jay A. "The FCC's Regulation of Broadcast Indecency: A Broadened Approach for Removing Immorality from the Airwaves." University of Miami Law Review 43.4 (March 1989): 871-919.
  • Spark, Clare. "Pacifica Radio and the Politics of Culture." American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives. Berkeley. 1987; 577-590.
  • Hsiung, James C. "Indecent Broadcast: an Assessment of Pacifica's (FCC v. Pacifica Foundation 98 S. Ct. 3026) Impact". Communications and the Law 9 (Feb. 1987): 41.
  • Glasser, Theodore L. "Indecent Broadcasts and The Listener's Right of Privacy". Journal of Broadcasting 24 (Summer 1980): 285-99. [commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, concerning a program broadcast over radio station WBAI-FM].
  • Bloom, Theodore Samuel. " FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: An Indecent (speech) Decision? (George Carlin's "filthy words")". Ohio State Law Journal 40.1 (1979):155-85. [commenting on the 1978 U.S. supreme court decision that the Federal communications commission has the power to regulate.
  • * "FCC v. Pacifica Foundation", 98 S. Ct. 3026 (1978). University of Cincinnati Law Review 47.4, 1978.
  • Stebbins, Gene R. "Pacifica's Battle for Free Expression." Educational Broadcasting Review 4.3: 19-28.
  • Titchener, Campbell. "Pacifica Radio in Houston: Off and On Again." Educational Broadcasting Review 5.1: 3-7.

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Dissertations

  • Lasar, Matthew. "From Dialogue To Dissent: The Pacifica Foundation And The Cold War, 1942 To 1964". The Claremont Graduate School 1997. Source: Dai, Vol. 57-11a, p. 4898. Traces Pacifica's transistion from a pacifist communitarian to a liberal individualist philosophy.
  • Degraff, Jon Arquette. "Radio, Money, And Politics: The Struggle To Establish Wpfw-Fm, The Pacifica Foundation's Black-Oriented Washington Station". UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK 1995. Source: Dai, Vol. 57-03a, Page 0909. Examines the creation and development of radiostation WPFW-FM, during the years 1968 through 1983.
  • Land, Jeffrey Richard. "Active Radio: Pacifica's 'Brash Experiment'". University Of Oregon 1994. Source: Dai, Vol. 55-08a, Page 2194. Discusses the early history and overall importance of Pacifica radio focusing on pacifism, dissent and the first amendment, and the origins of community broadcasting.
  • Lumpp, James Andrew. The Pacifica Experience--1946-1975: Alternative Radio In Four United States Metropolitan Areas. University Of Missouri - Columbia, 1977; Source: DAI, VOL. 38-10A, p. 5778.
  • Stebbins, Gene R. "Listener - Sponsored Radio: The Pacifica Stations". Ohio State University 1969; Source: DAI, Vol. 31-02A, Page 0780.

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Books

  • McKinney, Eleanor, ed. "The Exacting Ear: The Story of Listener Sponsored Radio, and an Anthology of Programs from KPFA, KPFK, and WBAI". New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.

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Radio

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