The Project Censored Show on KPFA, Pacifica Radio was started in 2010 by Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, with Anthony Fest and airs on 40 stations from Maui to New York, and online everywhere.Â
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The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that airs Fridays from 1-2 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA, Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, CA. The program is an extension of the work Project Censored began in 1976 celebrating independent journalism while fighting media censorship, deconstructing propaganda, and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on “The News That Didn’t Make the News.” Each week, the Project Censored team conducts in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary and analysis on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. Beginning in 2010, and roughly 300 broadcasts later, the program is nationally syndicated on 50 stations and growing. To learn how to bring the Project Censored Show to your community, contact [email protected] or Anthony Fest at [email protected].
Meet the Project Censored Show team!
Picture by Kent Porter via the Press Democrat
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, Executive Producers and Founders, Co-Hosts
Peter Phillips, Ph.D., is a Professor Sociology at Sonoma State University and  past Director of Project Censored (1996—2010). He teaches classes in Media Censorship, Investigative Sociology, Sociology of Power, Political Sociology, Sociology of Conspiracies, and Sociology of Media. He has published fourteen editions of Censored: Media Democracy in Acton from Seven Stories Press. Also from Seven Stories Press is Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006) and Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism (2003). Peter Phillips co-hosts the Project Censored show on Pacifica Radio and is a frequent writer and blogger on numerous sites worldwide. In 2009, Phillips received the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications. Dallas Smythe is a national award given to researchers and activists who, through their research and/or production work, have made significant contributions to the study and practice of democratic communication. His recent research has been on the Transnational Capitalist Class.
Mickey Huff is the current director of Project Censored, founded in 1976, and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. To date, he has edited or coedited eight volumes of Censored (published by Seven Stories Press in NY) and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. Additionally, he has coauthored several chapters on media and propaganda for many other scholarly publications. He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is cochair of the history department. Huff is cohost with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips of The Project Censored Show, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that began in 2010, which originates from the historic studios of KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley CA, and airs on 40 stations around the US and is also a podcast online. He sits on the advisory board for the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program at Sacred Heart University in CT, and serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and Society. For the past several years, Huff has worked with the national outreach committee of Banned Books Week, working with the American Library Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship, of which Project Censored is a member. He is a co-founding member of the Global Critical Media Literacy Project (www.gcml.org) and he also represents Project Censored as one of the cosponsoring organizations for the National Whistleblowers Summit held annually in Washington DC. Most recently, he became the critical media literacy consultant for a new educational Internet start up, Tribworthy.com, which is a crowd contested media interactive online platform that allows users to rate news articles and sources for trustworthiness using critical media literacy skills. He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets around the world regarding critical media literacy, propaganda, and censorship issues as well as contemporary historiography in the US. He is a longtime musician and composer and lives with his family in Northern California.
Co-Host
Chase Palmieri is CoHost of The Project Censored Show, which airs on over 40 stations around the U.S. from Maui to New York. Every episode is available online and as a podcast at The Official Project Censored Show. Chase is passionate about media reform and serves as the CEO and Cofounder of Credder, a news review site that allows journalists and the public to review articles, measuring the public’s trust in every article, author, and outlet. Credder’s goal is to make the news compete for the public’s trust, not just clicks. He’s published in Project Censored’s 2016 book as the inventor of “crowd-contested media”, creating the first-ever Rotten Tomatoes/Yelp for news. Chase has a background in business and entrepreneurship, which he’s now intertwined with his lifelong study of the news industry, information ecosystems, media literacy, and censorship. Visit credder.com to learn more.
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Producer
Anthony Fest has been the producer of the Project Censored Show since the program began in late 2010. His previous radio experience includes 20 years of hosting the Sunday news on KPFA, the station where the Project Censored Show is produced. As well as producing Project Censored, he is the technical producer of “Poor News Network” a semiweekly feature on Hard Knock Radio, heard on KPFA and other stations. He’s also a staff representative on the KPFA board.