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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.

‘In even the best coverage there is no accountability for the Fossil Fuel Industry’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 26, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage.
At Northwestern U, distributing a parody paper gets you threatened with prison

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 9, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

Students at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, produced a parody edition of the school’s paper, the Daily Northwestern, to call out the school’s stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.
‘When you’re in a colonial situation, the colonial power initiates violence’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 23, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Gaza and genocide.
A minimum-wage increase can benefit the whole economy

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 17, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Sebastian Martinez Hickey on minimum wage.
‘”Material support” in the form of speech can be criminalized’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 29, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.
Milei is ‘really as extreme as you get in Right-Wing Libertarian ideas’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 28, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei.
‘The narrative here is that workers fought and they won’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 10, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Teddy Ostrow on UPS/Teamsters agreement.
‘Charging domestic terrorism is intended to make the cost of protesting too high’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 26, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Cody Bloomfield on anti-activist terrorist charges.
‘The court’s position is, no one can tell them what to do’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 19, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court corruption
‘The U.S. incarcerates more immigrants than anywhere else in the World’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 10, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on detention center fire.
Starbucks ‘workers and consumers have the same foe’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 13, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks organizing.
‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 24, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
‘Every issue is a disability issue’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 23, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
‘A crucial part of colonization is taking our children’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 13, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act.
‘Student debt hurts the economy and cancellation will improve lives’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 10, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Braxton Brewington on student loan debt.
‘Mega-retailers are using inflation as a cover to raise prices and turn record profits’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rakeen Mabud on supply chain breakdown.
‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
‘Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 28, 2021 by Interviewing Paul Paz y Miño (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.
Where are the threads dropped with the criminal investigation of the Sackler family?’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 10, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rick Claypool on OxyContin immunity.
Only those taking action against climate violence are labeled ‘terrorist’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 27, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

Floods, fires, ice caps melting, hurricanes—all attest to the violence of human-caused climate disruption.