Laura Flanders, Izzy Award Winner, speaks with WRFI [AUDIO]

Laura Flanders, a long-time independent journalist and the founder of The Laura Flanders Show, is a 2019 Izzy Award winner. The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College gives the Izzy Award each year “for outstanding achievement in independent media.” Before the awards ceremony on Apr. 15, Flanders spoke with another Laura: WRFI’s News Director, Laura Rosbrow-Telem.

Flanders interviews forward-thinking people about the key questions of our time on The Laura Flanders Show, which we air on WRFI before Your Morning on Fridays. Her show can also be seen weekly on her YouTube channel and syndicated nationally on KCET/LinkTV and FreeSpeech TV, and heard via podcast.

This conversation first aired on Your Morning on Apr. 12. To hear each recipient's award speech and exclusive interviews, tune in to WRFI Community Radio News at 6, starting this Fri., Apr. 19.