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In 2000, Project Censored came under the oversight of the non-profit '''Media Freedom Foundation''', founded by Jensen and Phillips to ensure its independence. In 2007, two of Project Censored judges resigned due to then-director Peter Phillips' decision to invite [[Steven E. Jones]], a [[9/11 Truth movement|9/11 Truth]] conspiracy theorist, as the keynote speaker to the Project's annual conference.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Two Project Censored judges resign over 9/11 controversy | journal = St. Louis Journalism Review | first = CD | last = Stelzer | date = August 1, 2007 | volume =37 | issue = 298 | pages = 20–22}}</ref> | In 2000, Project Censored came under the oversight of the non-profit '''Media Freedom Foundation''', founded by Jensen and Phillips to ensure its independence. In 2007, two of Project Censored judges resigned due to then-director Peter Phillips' decision to invite [[Steven E. Jones]], a [[9/11 Truth movement|9/11 Truth]] conspiracy theorist, as the keynote speaker to the Project's annual conference.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Two Project Censored judges resign over 9/11 controversy | journal = St. Louis Journalism Review | first = CD | last = Stelzer | date = August 1, 2007 | volume =37 | issue = 298 | pages = 20–22}}</ref> | ||
[[File:Mickey Huff.jpg|thumb|Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored, taken in Sacramento California, 2024.]] | [[File:Mickey Huff.jpg|thumb|Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored, taken in Sacramento California, 2024.]] | ||
Mickey Huff of [[Diablo Valley College]] became director in 2010.<ref>{{cite news | title = Walnut Creek: 'Project Censored' leaders discuss work, new film | newspaper = The Mercury News | date = March 26, 2014 | first = Lou | last = Fancher | url = https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/03/26/walnut-creek-project-censored-leaders-discuss-work-new-film/ | access-date = Feb 14, 2018}}</ref> He and Andy Lee Roth (associate director, 2012-2024) extended the Project beyond Sonoma State University and expanded the Campus Affiliates Program launched in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://projectcensored.org/about-validated-independent-news/|title=About Validated Independent News -|work=Project Censored|access-date=2018-02-05|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.sonoma.edu/article/project-censored-turns-40|title=Project Censored Turns 40|date=2016-12-13|work=SSU News|access-date=2018-02-05|language=en}}</ref> The top "Censored" news stories are identified through the Campus Affiliates Program, a collaborative effort between faculty and students at many colleges and universities.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Censored 2018: Press Freedoms in a "Post-Truth" World|last=Andy Lee Roth and|first=Mickey Huff|publisher=Seven Stories Press|year=2017|location=New York|pages=36, 39–40}}</ref> In 2025, [https://www.projectcensored.org/shealeigh-voitl/ Shealeigh Voitl] became associate director.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horgan |first=Kate |date=2025-03-24 |title=The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2025 |url=https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-march-2025/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.projectcensored.org |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
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==== Censored Press ==== | ==== Censored Press ==== | ||
The '''Censored Press''' was established in 2021 by the Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored. The Censored Press has published a number of notable titles, including ''Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey by Adam Bessie, Peter Glanting |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781644212707 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> ''Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange by Kevin Gosztola |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781644212721 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> ''The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People'',<ref>{{cite web |title=THE MEDIA AND ME |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ben-boyington/the-media-and-me/ |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |language=en|date=Oct 15, 2022}}</ref> and ''Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity,''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Moscrop |first=David |date=August 11, 2024 |title=Economic Overlords Are Destroying Democracy — and Our Lives |url=https://jacobin.com/2024/08/finance-titans-democracy-climate-davos/ |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=The Jacobin}}</ref> each of which were which was co-published by the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. | The '''Censored Press''' was established in 2021 by the Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored. The Censored Press has published a number of notable titles, including ''Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey by Adam Bessie, Peter Glanting |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781644212707 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> ''Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange by Kevin Gosztola |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781644212721 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> ''The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People'',<ref>{{cite web |title=THE MEDIA AND ME |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ben-boyington/the-media-and-me/ |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |language=en|date=Oct 15, 2022}}</ref> and ''Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity,''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Moscrop |first=David |date=August 11, 2024 |title=Economic Overlords Are Destroying Democracy — and Our Lives |url=https://jacobin.com/2024/08/finance-titans-democracy-climate-davos/ |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=The Jacobin}}</ref> each of which were which was co-published by the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. | ||
===Documentary films=== | ===Documentary films=== | ||
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== Reception == | == Reception == | ||
[[Ralph Nader]] described Project Censored as "a deep, wide and utterly engrossing exercise to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in the mass media."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Censored 2015: inspiring We the people: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2013-2014|last1=Roth|first1=Andrew Lee |last2=Huff |first2=Mickey |isbn=978-1609805654|edition=1st |location=New York|oclc=868199592|date=2014-10-07}}</ref>{{self published inline|date=June 2025}} In December 2013, Nader selected ''Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times'' as one of his "10 Books to Provoke Conversation" in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/2014-book-recommendations_b_4524616.html|title=10 Books to Provoke Conversation in the New Year|last=Nader|first=Ralph|date=2013-12-31|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-05}}</ref> | |||
In 2000, Don Hazen, the first executive director of the progressive news analysis and commentary website ''[[AlterNet]]'', criticized Project Censored as "stuck in the past" with a "dubious selection process" that "reinforces self-marginalizing, defeatist behavior".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/202/|title=Beyond Project Censored: It's Time for a New Award|last=Hazen|first=Don|date=2000-03-31|work=AlterNet|access-date=2018-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708005650/http://www.alternet.org/story/202/|archive-date=July 8, 2004}}</ref> It has also been criticized for reporting on stories that are arguably not "under-reported" or "censored" at all, as they have appeared in ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other such high-profile publications.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/04/projectcensored.html|title=The Unbearable Lameness of Project Censored|work=Mother Jones|access-date=2018-02-05|language=en-US}}</ref> Furthermore, the organization's use of the term "censorship" to describe under-reported items, rather than governmentally censored material, has been called into question.<ref>{{cite news | title = The great alternative press | last = Lehrer | first = Eli | work = [[The American Enterprise]]| volume = 9 | issue = 3 | date = 1998 | pages = 15–16}}</ref> William Powers, writing in ''[[The New Republic]]'', called this broad use of the term "pernicious and deceptive."<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Censor this | first = William | last = Powers | magazine = The New Republic | volume = 217 | issue = 1 | date = July 7, 1997 | pages = 15–16}}</ref> | |||
''[[New Politics (magazine)|New Politics]]'' magazine criticized Project Censored for denying [[Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars|Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars]], both crimes in [[Kosovo]] committed by [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s government (such as the [[Račak massacre]]), and the [[Bosnian genocide]] committed by the [[Army of Republika Srpska]], highlighting Michael Parenti's denial in the 2000 volume.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walls |first=David |date=Summer 2002 |title=Dubious Sources: How Project Censored Joined The Whitewash of Serb Atrocities |url=https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/8049g573w |journal=New Politics |volume=9}}</ref> | |||
==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
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In 2008, Project Censored received [[PEN Oakland]]'s Censorship award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penoakland.com/awards-winners/|title=Awards & Award Winners|website=PEN Oakland|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514072907/https://www.penoakland.com/awards-winners|archive-date=2019-05-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> | In 2008, Project Censored received [[PEN Oakland]]'s Censorship award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penoakland.com/awards-winners/|title=Awards & Award Winners|website=PEN Oakland|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514072907/https://www.penoakland.com/awards-winners|archive-date=2019-05-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Non-profit organizations based in California]] | [[Category:Non-profit organizations based in California]] | ||
[[Category:Pleasant Hill, California]] | [[Category:Pleasant Hill, California]] | ||
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Project Censored is a nonprofit media watchdog organization in the United States.[1] The group's stated mission is to "educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government."[2][3][4]
Project Censored produces an annual book and a weekly radio program. Both the annual books and the weekly radio programs, as well as public events sponsored by the Project, focus on issues of news censorship, propaganda, free speech, and politics. Past editions of the yearbook were published by Seven Stories Press.
Project Censored was founded at Sonoma State University in 1976 by Carl Jensen (1929-2015).[5] Since 2010, Mickey Huff has been the group's director.[6] It is sponsored by the Media Freedom Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, established in 2000. The organization is based in Ithaca, New York.
History
Project Censored was founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Sonoma State College, as a media research program.[7][8] The project focused on student media literacy and critical thinking skills as applied to the US news media censorship.[9]
Corporate media reporters, editors, and executives[10] lampooned Jensen for claiming they "censored" news stories. They argued that the stories were not censored, but that due to time and space constraints, they could not publish every story. Jensen began an annual study that found that, rather than covering newsworthy stories, the corporate media often featured trivial and non-newsworthy stories, which Jensen termed "junk food news" in a 1983 interview published in Penthouse.[11] Since the first Censored yearbook, published in 1993, each annual Censored volume has featured a chapter dedicated to exposing examples of what Jensen originally identified as "junk food news".
In 1996, when Jensen retired, Peter Phillips, also a sociology professor at Sonoma State University, became director of Project Censored. He continued to expand the Project's educational outreach and the annual book, adding the concept and analysis of "News Abuse" to elaborate Jensen's idea of "junk food" news.[12] "News abuse" refers to corporate media stories that were newsworthy, but presented in a slanted or non-newsworthy manner.[13]
In 2000, Project Censored came under the oversight of the non-profit Media Freedom Foundation, founded by Jensen and Phillips to ensure its independence. In 2007, two of Project Censored judges resigned due to then-director Peter Phillips' decision to invite Steven E. Jones, a 9/11 Truth conspiracy theorist, as the keynote speaker to the Project's annual conference.[14]
Mickey Huff of Diablo Valley College became director in 2010.[15] He and Andy Lee Roth (associate director, 2012-2024) extended the Project beyond Sonoma State University and expanded the Campus Affiliates Program launched in 2009.[16][17] The top "Censored" news stories are identified through the Campus Affiliates Program, a collaborative effort between faculty and students at many colleges and universities.[18] In 2025, Shealeigh Voitl became associate director.[19]
Activities
Publications
Since 1993, Project Censored has published its annual list of the most under-reported news stories in the form of a book. Since 1996, Seven Stories Press in New York has published each annual Censored book.[20] The first Project Censored yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News—And Why, edited by Carl Jensen, was published by Shelburne Press in 1993.[21] Two subsequent volumes, the 1994 and 1995 yearbooks, were published by Four Walls Eight Windows.[22] From 2022 to 2025, the yearbooks were jointly published by Seven Stories Press and Project Censored’s publishing imprint, The Censored Press. The 2026 yearbook will be published solely by The Censored Press.
The organization's annual listing of the most significant but under-reported news stories, dating back to 1976, is archived on the Project Censored website.[23] Previous years' "Censored" lists have been featured in U.S. national media outlets.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Censored Press
The Censored Press was established in 2021 by the Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored. The Censored Press has published a number of notable titles, including Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey,[31] Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange,[32] The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People,[33] and Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity,[34] each of which were which was co-published by the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.
Documentary films
Project Censored has been the subject of two feature-length documentary films. In 2013, Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar produced and directed Project Censored: The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News.[35][36] The film features interviews with and commentary by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dan Rather, Phil Donahue, Michael Parenti, Greg Palast, Oliver Stone, Daniel Ellsberg, Peter Kuznick, Cynthia McKinney, Nora Barrows-Friedman, John Perkins, Jonah Raskin, Khalil Bendib, Abby Martin, and faculty and students associated with Project Censored.
Project Censored: The Movie screened at numerous film festivals, including its premiere at the Sonoma International Film Festival in April 2013,[37] the Bend Film Festival in October 2013, and the Madrid International Film Festival in July 2013, where Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar were recognized for Best Directing of a Feature Documentary.[38]
In 1998, Differential Films released Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free?, directed and produced by Steven Keller. In May 2000, Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free? aired on PBS stations across the United States.[39]
Reception
Ralph Nader described Project Censored as "a deep, wide and utterly engrossing exercise to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in the mass media."[40]Template:Self published inline In December 2013, Nader selected Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times as one of his "10 Books to Provoke Conversation" in 2014.[41]
In 2000, Don Hazen, the first executive director of the progressive news analysis and commentary website AlterNet, criticized Project Censored as "stuck in the past" with a "dubious selection process" that "reinforces self-marginalizing, defeatist behavior".[42] It has also been criticized for reporting on stories that are arguably not "under-reported" or "censored" at all, as they have appeared in The New York Times and other such high-profile publications.[43] Furthermore, the organization's use of the term "censorship" to describe under-reported items, rather than governmentally censored material, has been called into question.[44] William Powers, writing in The New Republic, called this broad use of the term "pernicious and deceptive."[45]
New Politics magazine criticized Project Censored for denying Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, both crimes in Kosovo committed by Slobodan Milošević's government (such as the Račak massacre), and the Bosnian genocide committed by the Army of Republika Srpska, highlighting Michael Parenti's denial in the 2000 volume.[46]
Awards
The 1995 edition of Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News—And Why won the 1996 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Nonfiction.[47]
In 2008, Project Censored received PEN Oakland's Censorship award.[48]
References
External links
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