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About Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘s Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research.
  • Farrah Hassen

    ‘Housing unaffordability is the primary cause of homelessness’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 20, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness

  • Tom Morello

    ‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 3, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.

  • Erin Reed

    ‘The HHS Report was put out to give cover to oppose transgender healthcare’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.

  • UNRWA USA’s Mara Kronenfeld

    ‘I’m not seeing the horror reflected in corporate media’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 23, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade.

  • Tanya Clay House

    ‘Black history is American history’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 9, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Tanya Clay House on erasing history.

  • ‘Our position on Palestine is not fringe’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Janine Jackson interviewed CODEPINK’s Danaka Katovich about attacks on activists for the May 2, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

  • People (4/11/25)

    ‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 30, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

  • Jessica González

    ‘This is an all-out war on the First Amendment’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 10, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

  • Nancy Altman

    ‘A small group of people wanted to do away with Social Security from the beginning’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 25, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks.

  • Derek Seidman

    ‘The insurance industry is the fossil fuel industry’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 10, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate.

  • Mohamad Bazzi: “What unfolded in Lebanon last week was something dystopian, but it wasn’t a movie. It affected real people’s lives.”

    ‘Western press obscured the sheer terror of what Israel had carried out’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 1, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.

  • Steve Macek

    They’re trying to pass laws to make dark money even darker

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 28, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Steve Macek on dark money.

  • Janine Jackson interviewed Food Not Bombs’ Keith McHenry

    ‘The problem is, there’s no place for anyone to go’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 6, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.

  • David Himmelstein

    ‘It’s time to take Medicare Advantage off the market’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 2, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with David Himmelstein on privatized Medicare.

  • Kennedy Smith

    ‘These stores are unhealthy for our communities’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 20, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion

  • Ellen Schrecker

    ‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 28, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom

  • Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion

    ‘Are you going to end the genocide, President Biden? That’s the central question’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.

  • Dave Lindorff

    ‘A monopoly on the bomb would be a catastrophe for the world’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 22, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country.

  • Black Alliance for Peace’s Chris Bernadel

    ‘Interventions laid the groundwork for the crisis in Haiti today’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 15, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Chris Bernadel on Haiti

  • Robert Weissman

    ‘Punishments for corporations and CEOs are just paltry’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 10, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    CounterSpin interview with Robert Weissman on Boeing scandal.

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