Radio Active Magazine

Ingrid Burnett discusses her concerns with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Ingrid is a leader in Kansas City's historic Northeast, between downtown KCMO and the river from Columbus Park to Indian Mound . She currently serves on the Board of Northeast News and produces a "Women Speak" podcast for them focusing on women shaping public policy. She also works with the Northeast Chamber o...

John Maxwell Hamilton discusses propaganda with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Hamilton is a long-time journalist, author, educator, and public servant. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication  at Louisiana State University , where he has also served as Provost . He has appointments as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wils...

Bess Wallerstein Huff shares her vision for KKFI with Radio Active Magazine regulars Craig Lubow and Spencer Graves. Ms. Wallerstein Huff joined KKFI as Executive Director on August 12, roughly four months ago. She is an experienced executive, creative strategist, and community builder with over 20 years of leadership in the arts, media, and nonprofits. She has guided teams through brand evolution...

Mark Hurst  discusses how you can better protect yourself from Big Tech . Among other things, Mark produces Techtonic , a one-hour weekly radio show about technology syndicated for Pacifica and for the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a non-profit platform for digital distribution and licensing of radio programs, originally designed for National Public Radio (NPR). The show originates with WFMU in Eas...

University of Denver journalism professor Kareem El Damanhoury compares how the same or similar issues are framed differently in different media outlets. This includes especially comparing how Al Jazeera , the BBC and Fox  have covered Gaza . El Damahoury is an Associate Professor of journalism at the University of Denver with numerous publications comparing different media outlets, e.g., on their...

Trinidad Raj Molina discusses Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation with Radio Active Magazine regulars Spencer Graves and Craig Lubow. Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (airrkc.org) is committed to empowering and uplifting the voices of the immigrant community and providing them with the tools they need to better protect themselves and their families.

[audio mp3="https://kkfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/RAM2025-11-11MeDem.mp3"][/audio] Spencer Graves summarizes lessons for the future from the first 37 episodes of the Media & Democracy series broadcasted as Radio Active Magazine and syndicated for the Pacifica Radio Network. Twenty-nine-minute podcasts of all episodes and videos of most are available with the descriptions of each episode...

Dr. Teri Finneman , the Clyde M. Reed Professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, discusses her research on powerful women and reviving local news. She is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Professor Finneman is an author or editor of: Teri Finneman; Nick Mathews; Patrick Richard Ferrucci (2024). Reviving...

Professor Kwame Karikari discusses media reform initiatives in West Africa with Spencer Graves. Professor Karikari was born in 1947 in what was then the Gold Coast , which merged with smaller neighbors to become Ghana as it became the first colony in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sovereignty in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah . In the 1970s Karikari obtained a bachelor's degree from the...

There were multiple "No Kings" rallies in the greater metro area October 18. The one a Johnson County Community College had 8 speakers, organized by Martha Lawrence and Nancy Mays of Boots on the Ground Midwest . A video of this "No Kings Protest @ JCCC" is available on YouTube . Excerpts from those talks were featured in this broadcast, summarized here: Jae Moyer, an LGBTQ+ activist , discussed h...

Seth David Radwell's book A merican Schism is subtitled, "How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" . It was officially published 2021-06-28 just over 5 months after the end of Donald Trump's first term. He is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. No Kings rallies October 18 Roughly 2,000 "No Kings" rallies are scheduled in the US, 3 in Canada and 20...

Dan Hind discusses the Media Reform Coalition with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. The Media Reform Coalition insists that, "Our media is broken" and is "Leading the fight for a media fit for the 21st-century" in the UK . The Media Reform Coalition was founded in 2011 in the wake of the revelations that the News of the World had hacked the phones of victims of crime. In 2017 Rupert M...

The International day of peace, September 21, is celebrated with a festival organized by Ira Harritt and the Interfaith Council of Greater Kansas City. We talk with some of the organizers, presenters, and participants.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez discusses her "First Amendment Tour: Fighting back against the campaign of censorship and control." This was excerpted from her keynote address on that issue for the Grassroots Radio Conference 2025-09-12.1 A video of that address and the Q&A that followed will be posted to the Wikiversity article on " Fighting back against the campaign of censorship and control ",...

Bill Schmidt discusses his work with the Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (RIM) committee of the St. Francis Xavier parish in Kansas City, Missouri. This is followed by a brief discussion of the evidence regarding the impact of immigrants on crime and the incomes of the host community. In brief, the research finds that on average immigrants benefit both the sending and receiving countries, and th...

Doug Samuelson discusses the role of the media in conflict with Spencer Graves. Samuelson has a Dr. Sci. in operations research and years of experience with empirical modeling, especially for […] The post The role of the media in conflict appeared first on KKFI .

UMKC law professor Allen Rostron discusses legal issues raised by actions of the Trump administration. He is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine regulars Craig Lubow and Spencer Graves. Copyright 2025 […] The post Legal issues raised by Trump administration actions appeared first on KKFI .

Nick Hart is interviewed by Spencer Graves about the Data Foundation, of which he is President and CEO, and about the status of evidence-informed public policy in the US. The […] The post Evidence-informed public policy appeared first on KKFI .

Ernie Nolan, the Artistic Director of Kansas City's Unicorn Theatre, discusses their history and upcoming program with Radio Active Magazine regular Craig Lubow. The post Unicorn Theatre 2025-2026 Season appeared first on KKFI .

Reece Peck describes how he thinks Left media outlets could increase their effectiveness by working harder to understand the concerns of the working class and packaging policy prescriptions in terms […] The post What the Left can learn from Fox appeared first on KKFI .

Bill Clause asked attendees at  July 17 John Lewis Day "Good Trouble" event why they were there; that event was organized in part by Indivisible Kansas City, discussed in the […] The post John Lewis, Democratic Socialists, and Christian Nationalists appeared first on KKFI .

Natalie Fenton discusses her new 2025 book, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It, and related work. She is interviewed by Spencer […] The post Democratic delusions: Fix the media to fix democracy appeared first on KKFI .

Bill Clause, Beverly Harvey and Skie Pearson discuss with Spencer Graves activities by Indivisible Kansas City, the Solidarity School of Resistance, and the campaign to prevent CoreCivic from reopening their prison […] The post More on the Solidarity School and other activism appeared first on KKFI .

University of British Columbia history professor Heidi J.S. Tworek1 discusses her research on the impact of the media on politics in Germany focusing especially in 1900 through 1945 and its […] The post News from Germany 1900-1945 and implications for today appeared first on KKFI .

University of San Diego Communications Professor Nik Usher discusses their research on how news impacts democracy. Recent publications describe how media impacted the response to Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, illiberal politics, […] The post How news impacts democracy per USD Communications Professor Nik Usher appeared first on KKFI .