The Real News Network

Name	Position	Notes
Paul Jay	Founding Chair^[1]	CounterSpin, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Susan Adelman	International Founding Committee	American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Venice Family Clinic
Laszlo Barna	International Founding Committee	Barna-Alper Productions, Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), Canadian Television Fund (CTF)
Odelia Bay	International Founding Committee	CBC News
Richard Belzer	International Founding Committee	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bridgeport Post
Medea Benjamin	International Founding Committee	Global Exchange, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice
Tony Benn	International Founding Committee	Labour Party, Stop the War Coalition
Phyllis Bennis	International Founding Committee	Institute for Policy Studies, Transnational Institute
Charles Benton	International Founding Committee	Benton Foundation, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
Julie Bergman Sender	International Founding Committee	Balcony Films, Warner Brothers, Mirage Enterprises, Egg Pictures
George Biggar	International Founding Committee	Legal Aid Ontario
Larry Birns	International Founding Committee	Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Robert Blair	International Founding Committee	Photon Control, Nova Corporation, Husky Energy
Val Blokowski	International Founding Committee	CBC News Network, Education Network of Ontario (ENO)
Jack Blum	International Founding Committee	United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Salih Booker	International Founding Committee	Africa Action, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Tanja Bosch	International Founding Committee	Fulbright Program
Jackson Browne	International Founding Committee	-
Helen Caldicott	International Founding Committee	Nuclear Policy Research Institute
Ben Cashdan	International Founding Committee	Nelson Mandela
John Cherian	International Founding Committee	Frontline
Jeff Chester	International Founding Committee	Center for Digital Democracy, National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Center for Media Education (CME)
Afsan Chowdhury	International Founding Committee	Brac University, UNICEF, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), CNN, Deutsche Welle (DW)
Jeff Cohen	International Founding Committee	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Diane Conn	International Founding Committee	-
John Connolly	International Founding Committee	American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
Mark Cooper	International Founding Committee	Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
Paul Copeland	International Founding Committee	Law Society of Ontario, Innocence Canada, Law Union of Ontario, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Mary Cornish	International Founding Committee	World Bank, European Economic Community (EEC)
Alan Curtis	International Founding Committee	Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Urban and Regional Policy Group (URPG), United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Brad deGraf	International Founding Committee	Media Venture Collective
Pamela de Maigret	International Founding Committee	-
John Duncan	International Founding Committee	-
Jodie Evans	International Founding Committee	Code Pink, Terra Verde
Mike Farrell	International Founding Committee	Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Artists Against the War, Commission on Judicial Performance
David Fenton	International Founding Committee	Fenton Communications, Rolling Stone
Tom Fenton	International Founding Committee	CBS News
Bob Fertik	International Founding Committee	Democrats.com, ProChoice Resource Center (PCRC), Eleanor's List, Political Women Newsletter, Women Leaders Online (WLO), Women's Voting Guide
Larry Fink	International Founding Committee	Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Laura Flanders	International Founding Committee	Air America Radio, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Bill Fletcher Jr.	International Founding Committee	TransAfrica Forum, Institute for Policy Studies, National Labor College (NLC)
Linda Foley	International Founding Committee	The Newspaper Guild (TNG), Communications Workers of America (CWA), Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE), International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Bryn Freedman	International Founding Committee	GRB Entertainment, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Janeane Garofalo	International Founding Committee	Air America Radio, Win Without War, MoveOn
Lila Garrett	International Founding Committee	Dennis Kucinich, Americans for Democratic Action, Americans Against War in Iraq, Michael Dukakis, Progressive Democrats of America, KPFK, LA Progressive
Amy Goodman	International Founding Committee	Democracy Now, WBAI
Ferial Haffajee	International Founding Committee	Mail & Guardian
Ron Haggart	International Founding Committee	CounterSpin, Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Citytv, The Fifth Estate
Adrian Harewood	International Founding Committee	CounterSpin
Buzz Hargrove	International Founding Committee	Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)
Sheri Herndon	International Founding Committee	KCMU, Independent Media Center (IMC)
Roger Hickey	International Founding Committee	Campaign for America's Future, Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Public Media Center, National Center for Economic Alternatives
Len Hill	International Founding Committee	American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Common Cause, Los Angeles Conservancy, California Film Commission
Jesse Hirsh	International Founding Committee	Media Collective, TAO, Openflows
Audrey Huntley	International Founding Committee	CBC News
Tom Hurwitz	International Founding Committee	-
Zane Ibrahim	International Founding Committee	Bush Radio
Janine Jackson	International Founding Committee	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Peter Jenner	International Founding Committee	Sincere Management, International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Pink Floyd, Billy Bragg
Mark Karlin	International Founding Committee	BuzzFlash
Allan King	International Founding Committee	Directors Guild of Canada (DGC)
Naomi Klein	International Founding Committee	Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Nation
Sashi Kumar	International Founding Committee	Asianet, Media Development Foundation, Asian College of Journalism
Tawana Kupe	International Founding Committee	School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM), University of Zimbabwe, University of Oslo, Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS)
Lewis Lapham	International Founding Committee	Harper's Magazine
Eun Sook Lee	International Founding Committee	National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD), National Immigration Forum
Josée Legault	International Founding Committee	Parti Québécois, Le Devoir
Avi Lewis	International Founding Committee	CounterSpin
Stephen Lewis	International Founding Committee	United Nations Special Envoy for HIV-AIDS in Africa, UNICEF, Stephen Lewis Foundation
Mark Lloyd	International Founding Committee	Center for American Progress (CAP), Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CNN
Hanadi Loubani	International Founding Committee	York University
Eric Margolis	International Founding Committee	Sun Media, Dawn Pakistan, American Conservative
Gavin MacFayden	International Founding Committee	Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), Granada Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Paul Maslin	International Founding Committee	Dean for America
Robert McChesney	International Founding Committee	Free Press, University of Illinois
Judith McCormack	International Founding Committee	Downtown Legal Services, Ontario Labour Relations Board
Nicco Mele	International Founding Committee	Howard Dean, Common Cause, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Jyoti Mistry	International Founding Committee	University of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts
George Monbiot	International Founding Committee	The Guardian, University of Oxford
Andre Morriseau	International Founding Committee	Indspire Awards, Aboriginal Voices Radio Network, Nation2Nation, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Mishuk Munier	International Founding Committee	BBC World Service, Ekushey Television (ETV), University of Dhaka
David Newman	International Founding Committee	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Geopolitics, Jerusalem Post
John Nichols	International Founding Committee	The Nation, The Capital Times, Free Press
Debbie Nightingale	International Founding Committee	C Channel, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Maureen O'Donnell	International Founding Committee	Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
David Ostriker	International Founding Committee	CounterSpin, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Canadian Independent Film Caucus (CIFC)
Greg Palast	International Founding Committee	Newsnight
Leo Panitch	International Founding Committee	Canada Research Chairs Program, York University
Robert Parry	International Founding Committee	Associated Press, Iran-Contra, Consortium News
Francine Pelletier	International Founding Committee	The Fifth Estate
Greg Philo	International Founding Committee	Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG)
Anne Pick	International Founding Committee	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC)
Sarah Pillsbury	International Founding Committee	Liberty Hill Foundation, Center for Nonprofits and Voting, Artists for a New South Africa, Center for Creative Voices in Media
Chellie Pingree	International Founding Committee	Common Cause, Maine Senate
N. Ram	International Founding Committee	The Hindu, Business Line, Sportstar
Michael Ratner	International Founding Committee	Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
Elliot Richmond	International Founding Committee	Horwath Orenstein
Bill Roberts	International Founding Committee	VisionTV, North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), TVO, World Broadcasting Unions (WBU)
Kenneth Roth	International Founding Committee	Human Rights Watch
Michael Saykaly	International Founding Committee	Optima Research, Centre de Recherche sur l'Opinion Publique (CROP)
Danny Schechter	International Founding Committee	MediaChannel, Globalvision, CNN, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Jonathan Schell	International Founding Committee	The Nation, Nation Institute, Yale Law School, New Yorker
Stephanie Schriock	International Founding Committee	Howard Dean, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
Andrew Jay Schwartzman	International Founding Committee	Media Access Project
Peter Scowen	International Founding Committee	Toronto Star, CBC Radio
Dimape Serenyane	International Founding Committee	HerdBuoys McCann-Erickson
Monique Simard	International Founding Committee	Productions Virage, Cinémathèque québécoise
Norman Solomon	International Founding Committee	Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA), Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Kim Spencer	International Founding Committee	Link TV, ABC News
Jim Stanford	International Founding Committee	Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), Globe and Mail
Joanne St. Lewis	International Founding Committee	University of Ottawa, Law Society of Ontario (LSO), Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
Shauna Sylvester	International Founding Committee	Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS)
Makani Themba Nixon	International Founding Committee	Praxis Project, Transnational Racial Justice Initiative (TRJI), California State Legislature
David J. Theroux	International Founding Committee	Independent Institute
Jenny Toomey	International Founding Committee	Future of Music Coalition, Simple Machines, Washington Post, Village Voice, CNET
Joe Trippi	International Founding Committee	Trippi & Associates, Howard Dean
Gloria Tristani	International Founding Committee	United Church of Christ (UCC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), New Mexico State Corporation Commission
Kathleen Unger	International Founding Committee	Universal Studios, Starbright Foundation, Eagles Charitable Foundation
Siddharth Varadajan	International Founding Committee	The Hindu, Times of India, New York University (NYU)
Gore Vidal	International Founding Committee	-
Kenneth Walker	International Founding Committee	Lion House Productions, National Public Radio (NPR), Washington Star, ABC News, USA Today
Patrick Watson	International Founding Committee	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Order of Canada
Celia Wexler	International Founding Committee	Common Cause
Haskell Wexler	International Founding Committee	-
Bill Zimmerman	International Founding Committee	MoveOn
Howard Zinn	International Founding Committee	Boston University, Center for Competitive Democracy

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