Our Story
The Laura Flanders Show began in 2001 as a daily radio program on Air America Radio to engage listeners in a deep dive of the most pressing issues of the times. In 2008, supported by Free Speech TV, Laura moved to television, beginning GRITtv, a daily national news show that covered the Financial Crisis from the grassroots up. After several years, the show moved to KCET/Link TV and teleSUR, where it ran as a weekly program called The Laura Flanders Show. The Laura Flanders Show launched on PBS stations in the United States in 2020, airing in 23 of the country’s top 25 television markets. The show rebranded as Laura Flanders & Friends in 2024. To find your local listing, check out our TV schedules.
Cultural Freedom
Fellowship,
Lannan Foundation
Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Media Center
Urban Journalist
of the Year,
City Limits
Izzy Award
Park Center
at Ithaca College
Most Valuable
Multimedia Maker
The Nation
Communicator of
the Year Award
NY Metro Labor Press Council
Stonewall Award
Stonewall
Community Foundation
Our Host
Laura Flanders
Host & Executive Producer
Laura is a best-selling author, broadcaster and host of Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show) on public television. The weekly public affairs program airs on over 300 public television stations via PBS and WORLD Channel, and reaches 225 million Americans on public television. It is also available on public radio, major podcast platforms and YouTube. After many years in public and commercial radio, she founded The Laura Flanders Show / GRITtv in 2008 to serve as an online channel for in depth conversations with forward-thinking people from the worlds of politics, economics, business and the arts. A primetime, daily broadcast, GRITtv with Laura Flanders aired for three years on Free Speech TV before moving to KCET/Linktv and teleSUR, as a weekly program. Flanders is a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! magazine. She is also the author of six books including the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura Flanders Show aired nationally on Air America Radio (2004-2008) before which she was the founding host of Your Call, on public radio, KALW, and CounterSpin, the nationally-syndicated radio program from the mediawatch group FAIR.
Our Board
Our Staff
Sabrina Artel
Supervising Producer
Sabrina Artel is an artist and a journalist. Her works explore community-based practices through the lens of social justice and direct storytelling. She has taught at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges in their journalism and media studies departments and has been a guest speaker at the OTIS School of Art and Design, The School of Visual Arts and the School of Public Health at Columbia University in NYC. Her interdisciplinary 19-year project, Trailer Talk includes a radio show and live performative events using new models for participatory communication, narrative building, and dialogue to support community engagement. Her work has been recognized by the Puffin Foundation, NYSCA and Art Matters among others.
Janet Hernandez is an early-career journalist and music enthusiast based in New York City. With her writing expertise and passion for storytelling, she’s on a mission to support and uplift change makers and creatives who are doing things differently.
Janet Hernandez
Communications Director
Jeannie Hopper
Audio Director
Jeannie Hopper pioneers media strategies for community focused platform building. She produced several podcast series, radio shows and streaming stations. As former program director at WBAI she developed new shows and training programs. Hopper developed and managed Clocktower Radio, a premiere podcast, live stream and on demand platform for PS1-MoMA. She currently produces the radio/podcast edition of the Laura Flanders Show, and hosts and produces Liquid Sound Lounge-on WBAI-Pacifica in New York City, targeting youth via underground music and culture along with annual ‘social dance’ focused events including annual boat parties.
Sarah Miller joined The Laura Flanders Show as Development Director in 2023. She has twenty years of non-profit experience, including producing a Latin American film festival in New York and managing a foundation dedicated to US-Cuban cultural exchange. In these roles she concentrated on serving New York’s diverse Latino communities as well as promoting Latino films to a wider audience. Having taught English in Bulgaria and Moscow in the early 1990s, she
firmly believes in the importance of open communications and information sharing in all its forms.
Additional professional experience includes several years in training and management at J.P.
Morgan Chase, including establishing a new Creative Services department in Buenos Aires.
She holds art history degrees from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Most
recently, she served as development director and then executive director for an association of
humanist youth camps
Sarah Miller
Development Director
Nat Needham
Creative Designer & Video Editor
Nat shoots, edits and animates manifestations of people and their ideas, be they in the High Himalayas, the craziness of Caracas, peculiar to Portland or nuevo in New York. He’s worked with Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, San Francisco Chronicle and enjoys eating Ethiopian food with his wife.
Before joining The Laura Flanders Show, David was a freelance editor. He has edited for Globalvision since 2009. His projects include two six-part documentary series for international distribution, America’s Surveillance State and Who Rules America; PBS NewsHour reports on the digital divide; a series of programs on the 2018 midterm elections for satcaster Free Speech TV; and, most recently, programs for The Laura Flanders Show.
In addition to his work with Globalvision, previous production and post-production experience includes narrative and documentary films (short and feature length), news segments, commercials, corporate videos and internal communications spanning a variety of settings, ranging from commercial production companies, advertising agencies and corporate production companies.
David Neumann
Senior Video Editor
Our Partnerships
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on 300 public television stations nationwide.
Free Speech TV is carried by Dish, DirecTV, Roku, and Apple TV. The Laura Flanders Show airs on the Free Speech TV channel at the following times:
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The LF Show streams on the Free Speech TV channel of Apple TV. If you have an Apple TV subscription, you can download the Free Speech TV app for Apple TV free in the app store. (Click here to get it now.) Once you have installed the Free Speech TV app, search for The Laura Flanders Show. You can then watch episodes at your leisure.
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