Flanders was founding director of the women's desk at the media watch group
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and for a decade produced and hosted
CounterSpin, FAIR's syndicated radio program. In January 1993, she appeared on the
ABC Good Morning America program as a spokesperson for FAIR to discuss how domestic violence increases during the annual
Super Bowl. Flanders hosted the weekday radio show
Your Call on
KALW, before starting the Saturday/Sunday evening
Laura Flanders Show on
Air America Radio in 2004. It became the weekly one-hour
Radio Nation in 2007, and a daily TV show on
Free Speech TV, "GRITtv with Laura Flanders" in 2008. That show aired for three years on Free Speech TV before moving to
KCET/
Linktv and
teleSUR, as a weekly program. Flanders is a contributing writer for
The Nation, and
Yes Magazine and has also contributed to
In These Times,
The Progressive and
Ms., magazine. She has authored six books, including
Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press 2007);
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), a study of the women in
George W. Bush's cabinet; and a collection of essays,
Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (1997). She edited "
At the Tea Party...." (O/R Books 2010) and
The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush (2004) and contributed to
The Contenders, (Seven Stories, 2008) among others.
The Laura Flanders Show In 2008, Flanders began hosting and executive producing
The Laura Flanders Show.
The Laura Flanders Show is a 30-minute news and public affairs show that explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. Its tagline is, "Where the people who say it can't be done take a back seat to the people who are doing it." The show originally aired weekly on
Free Speech TV and
teleSUR. In 2018, it became a coproduction of
CUNY TV. In 2019,
The Laura Flanders Show was picked up for distribution by
American Public Television, and in 2020, began airing on
PBS stations across the United States, including in 20 of the country's top 25 television markets. ==Personal life==