Our Press Team

Project Censored spokespersons are frequently sought-after expert sources on topics including free speech challenges, media literacy and ethics, journalism, new media, and the intersections of media, politics, and culture

Allison Butler
Censored Press author, director of Undergraduate Advising and Director of Media Literacy Certificate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Eleanor Goldfield
Co-host of Project Censored Radio, journalist, and filmmaker
Nolan Higdon
Project Censored judge, Lecturer at Merrill College and University of California, Santa Cruz
Mickey Huff
Project Censored director; executive producer/co-host of Project Censored Radio; Professor of Social Science, History, and Journalism
Steve Macek
Contributor to Project Censored's yearbooks, co-coordinator of Project Censored's campus affiliates program, Professor at North Central College in Illinois
Andy Lee Roth
Project Censored associate director, Co-coordinator of Project Censored's campus affiliate program, Former faculty member in sociology at Citrus College, Pomona College, and Sonoma State University

Press Releases

Project Censored on Banned Books Week

September 18-24 is the 40th annual Banned Books Week. Project Censored says we should commemorate it by redoubling our efforts to fight censorship.

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Sept 14, 2022

Does UNESCO’s campaign to stamp out Covid-19 conspiracy theories really help stop their spread?

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August 5, 2022

Project Censored Partners with the Annual Whistleblower’s Summit & Film Festival

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June 24, 2022

Project Censored Welcomes Summer Interns

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June 6, 2022

Project Censored Launches “Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics, ” a new bi-weekly column

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July 1, 2022

Recent Media Placements

KQED

An East Bay Teacher Shares His Pandemic Experience in a Compelling New Graphic Novel

May 11th, 2023

The Conversation

The firings of Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson doesn’t mean the end of hyperpartisan cable news networks featuring Nolan Higdon

May 4th, 2023

Kevin Gosztola on the Jimmy Dore Show

U.S. Actually Criticizes Russia For Jailing Journalists!

April 28th, 2023

Politico

Did misogyny factor into Tucker Carlson’s firing?

April 28th, 2023

Yahoo News

Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon are out — but likely not for long. Experts weigh in on what's next for the fired news hosts

April 25, 2023

The Ark

Tiburon native’s graphic novel chronicles teaching amid pandemic while battling cancer

April 19th, 2023

American Exception

Episode featuring Kevin Gosztola

April 11th, 2023

truthout

CIA's War on WikiLeaks Featuring Kevin Gosztola

April 10th, 2023

Savage Minds

Kevin Gosztola interview

April 6th, 2023

KPFA's Letters & Politics

The Case of Julian Assange

March 30th, 2023

Nicole Sandler Show

Wikileaks Wednesday with Kevin Gosztola; Guns & Union Busting Too

March 29th, 2023

Scheerpost

Excerpt from "Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian
Assange"

March 28th, 2023

Dissident Voice

How Chelsea Manning’s Court-Martial Laid the Groundwork for Julian Assange’s Prosecution

 

March 24th, 2023

BreakThrough News

March 24th, 2023

Skipping Stones

The Media and Me

 

March 21st, 2023

Trouthout

NYT Responds to Criticism of Anti-Trans Bias by Silencing Its Own Reporters 

 

March 2nd, 2023

The 74

Adam Bessie feature

 

March 17th, 2023

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Mickey Huff on the so-called "free press"

Feb 25th, 2023

Earth911

Corporate Media Fiddle as the Planet Burns

Feb 24th, 2023

USA TODAY

CNN's Don Lemon still gets it wrong - His non-apology for sexist comments is what not to do

Feb 22nd, 2023

Ms. Magazine

No Don, It’s *Patriarchy* That Is ‘Past Its Prime’

Feb 17th, 2023

Stepping into Truth

Critical Media Literacy with Allison Butler

Feb 14th, 2023

The Most Censored Stories of the Year! on Behind the Headlines with Lee Camp

Feb 9th, 2023

NPR

Critical Media Literacy with Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon

Feb 6th, 2023

The Jefferson Exchange

Big news stories that didn't make the news last year rounded up

Feb 3, 2023

yes!

A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News

Feb 2nd, 2023

Truthout

Billionaire’s Lawsuit Against O’Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics, Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek

Jan 28th, 2023

Truthout

Reina Robinson, contributor to The Media and Me

Jan 24th, 2023

Getting Smart

The Media and Me excerpt

Jan 19th, 2023

The Chris Hedges Report

Kevin Gosztola on the Chris Hedges Report

Jan 18th, 2023

Publishers Weekly

Panel Mania: Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey by Adam Bessie and Peter Glanting

Jan 18th, 2023

Who What Why

Featuring Mickey Huff

Jan 13th, 2023

Publishers Weekly

Teaching from the Cloud: PW Talks with Adam Bessie

Jan 13th, 2023

Publishers Weekly

Spring 2023 Announcements: Adult Comics & Graphic Novels

Jan 13th, 2023

The John Fugelsang Podcast

Mickey Huff Interview

Jan 11th, 2023

KPFA's "Letters and Politics"

Mickey Huff Interview

Jan 10th, 2023

Shadowproof

Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth Interview

Jan 10th, 2023

Full Measure

Mickey on Full Measure with Sheryl Attkisson

Jan 8th, 2023

The "copaganda" epidemic: How media glorifies police and vilifies protesters

Excerpt from State of the Free Press 2023 in Salon

Jan 8th, 2023

Global Research

From Free Press to Billionaire Press: Reviewing the Top (Censored) Stories of 2022

Jan 6th, 2023

The Art of Advocacy

Allison Butler on "The Media and Me" 

Jan 6th, 2023

The Chris Hedges Report

Mickey Huff on Project Censored, and The War on Journalism

Jan 5th, 2023

Starred Review of Going Remote in Publisher's Weekly

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

Mickey Huff on Project Censored, and The War on Journalism

December 17, 2022

The Curious Mans Podcast

Allison Butler Interview

Dec 16th, 2022

Allsion Butler on the David Pakman Show

 

December 15, 2022

Truthdig

On the corporate media’s fawning coverage of billionaires’ space tourism

Dec 13th, 2022

Literary Hub

Why Media Literacy Matters So Much in the Internet Age

November 22, 2022

The Kathryn Zox Show

Nolan Higdon Interview on MEDIA MISINFORMATION

October 19th, 2022

Salon

Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Election denial and the Big Lie: Sure, Trump made it worse — but both sides do it

October 31, 2022

Be Bold America! With Jill Cody

Mickey Huff Interview on THE UNITED STATES OF DISTRACTION

Sept 25, 2022

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler on Parallex Views with J.G. Michael

Sept 5, 2022

The San Francisco Chronicle

Zuckerberg interview with Joe Rogan was public relations propaganda

Sept 2, 2022

The Thom Hartmann Program

Did Big Tech Make Big Money Spying on Your Kids Featuring Nolan Higdon

Aug 29th, 2022

USA TODAY

Strangers are spying on your child. And schools are paying them to do it.

Aug 24th, 2022

ScheerPost

Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Defund the Democratic Party

July 3, 2022

The Scheer Intelligence Show on KCRW

Has America Lost the Key to Democracy?

June 24, 2022

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

The News That Didn’t Make The News

June 18, 2022

Literary Hub

Can We Trust Anything We Read in the Media These Days?

April 22, 2022

Ms. Magazine

‘The News That Didn’t Make the News’: How the Media Ignores Important Stories About Gender Violence and Inequity

April 4, 2022

Salon

The TikTok time bomb: The nascent social media app is feeding us junk food news nonstop

February 23, 2022

Truthout

Attacks on Journalists Are Just One Looming Threat to Press Freedom in the US

February 13, 2022

Rumble with Michael Moore

The Most Censored Stories of the Year (featuring the Editors of Project Censored)

February 3, 2022

Index on Censorship

Omission is the same as permission

Link to full text

January 12, 2022

The American Prospect

Project Censored, Part 1: The New Normal Is More Normalized Censorship

November 25, 2021

The Markaz Review

The New Gatekeepers: How proprietary algorithms increasingly determine the news we see

March 14, 2021

YES! Magazine

Should This Article Be Trusted?

December 21, 2020