Censored 2012 (77 page)

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Andrew Roth, PhD, Kristen Seraphin, MA

Niagara University

Students:
George Antzoulis, Vincent Caruso, Joshua Carey, John M. Curtin, Julie Fonzi, Amanda Galster, Sabree Gemel, Amanda Gorlewski, Sara Gromek, Tiffany Hyman, Monique Larkins-Funches, Gabrielle Lustrinelli, Lela Mayfield, Cieara Moore, John Powers, Raymond Potter, Maria Rose, Catherine Ruszczyk, Vincent Schiano, Kat Smith, Jillian Teeter, Molliann Zahm, Derek Zeller

Faculty Evaluator:
Brian Martin Murphy

San Francisco State University

Students:
Rene Arellano, Brittney Barsotti, Natasha Berg, Frances Capell, Lauren Dizon, Bay Ewald, Joey Fino, Allison Gill, Allison Holt, Jared L. Kowalski, Jourdan McPhetridge, Ashley Myers, Noe Otero, Hobie Owen, Aaron Peacock, Celeste Richmond, Michael Smith, Robert Usher, Brittney White

Faculty Evaluator:
Kenn Burrows

Siena College

Students:
Brittany Bardin, Danielle Booher, Jenn Brandi, Jacquelyn Casey, Lauren Connell, Tricia Davidson, Sara Fitzpatrick, Melanie Macri, Katie Pierre, Jenna Placke, Mike Reda, Jessica Starr, Gabrielle Vono, Emily Waterman, Christan Zbytniewski

Faculty Evaluator:
Dr. Mo Hannah

Sonoma State University

Students:
Stefanie Adams, Camille Avis, Shah Baig, Jamie Bee, Sam Bergman, Robert Block, Hallie Boldt, Ashley Bjorge, Angelina Bravo, Craig Cekala, Erica Chavez, Cameron Cleveland, Kendra Coleman, Jason Corbett, Josh Crockett, Nzinga Dotson-Newman, Accacia Downer, Ana Elliott, Joel Evans-Fudem, Taylor Falbisaner, Michelle Fielder, Cheryl Fonseca, Danielle Frisk, Keith Garrett, Nick George, Thomas Gojkovich, Jordan Hall, Katie Havens, Tyler Head, Karen Kniel, Kevin Knopf, Sean Lawrence, Stephanie Marion, Lauren McNamara, Elizabeth Michael, Alex Miller, Brittany Morgan, Caitlin Morgan, Andrew Nassab, Ashley Nelson, Amanda Newhall, Nzinga Dotson-Newman, Erin Newton, Chante Noel, Amy Ortiz, Kayla Peirano, Pedro Perez, Cassie Petersen, Courtney Rider, Chris Riske, Danielle Ritenour, Katherine Ross, Jenna Russett, Bradley Shadoan, Chelsea Silva, Cynthia Solano, Aluna Soupholphakdy, Dane Steffy, Lindsey Tanner, Alex Todd, Gina Uliana, Kaitlyn Vargas, Dean Walker, Jacquelyn Waring, Rebecca Wilson, Ashley Wood, Taylor Wright, Yuliana Zamudio

Faculty Evaluators:
Gloria Allen, Jeffery Baldwin, Cynthia Boaz, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Denny Bozman-Moss, Julie Bright, Kelly Bucy, Noel Byrne, Caroline Christian, Dr. Daniel Crocker, Marjorie Crowder, James Dean, Andrew Deseran, Robert Eyler, Michael Ezra-AMCS Professor, Michelle Fielder, Heather Flynn, Marty Frankel, Keith Gouveia, Karen Grady, Diana Grant, Sue Hayes, Janet Hess, Patrick Jackson, Tom Jacobson, Shelia Katz, Deborah Kindy, John Kornfeld, Jeanette H. Koshar, Dr. John Kramer, Tyler Lewis, Joseph Lin, Ronald Lopez, Dan Lopez, Mutombo M’Panya, Daniel Malpica, Robert McNamara, Dr. Lena McQuade, Alex Miller, Mike Nackord, Matthew Paolucci, Ervand Peterson, Peter Phillips, Patricia Pollock, James Preston, Kimberly Ramos, Danielle Ritenour, Don Romesburg, Elenita Strobel, Parissa Tadrissi, Chong-Uk Kim, Frances Vazquez, Laura Watt, Elaine Wellin, Eric Williams, Terry Wright

St. Cloud University

Students:
Nancy Shedrack Anwary, Wend-Kouni Deo-Gratias Nintiema, Bretta
Diekmann, Helen Kitilla, Amanda Peterson, Jessica Wiehr

Faculty Evaluator:
Julie Andrzejewski

State University of New York, Potsdam

Students:
Alexander Allen, Jonathan Alt, Brooke Armstrong, Amanda Avery, Ashley Benoit, Allison Breivogel, Matthew Cauwels, Francesca Centofanti, Paul Craig, Stacey Finley, Kathleen Frear, Matthew Glaeser, James Godek, Whitney Hargett, Shawn Hatch, Amanda Helms, Hilary Hitchman, Benjamin Houck, Kathleen Hoyt, Kenneth Jenkins, Nichole Kelder, Tyler Kellogg, Ashlie Klepper, Donald LaBarge, Courtney Laughlin, Annmarie Lewis, Tyrisha McFev-Mosley, Courtney McLamb, Jose Minguez, Kenneth Palmieri, Kyle Phelix, Matthew Raymond, Alexander Rounds, Dylan Soper, Nicholas Steblenko, Philip Stever, Amanda Stockwell, Sarah Vine, Louis Walker III, Brooklyn Wheeler, Kristopher Wilson

Faculty Evaluators:
Dr. Christina Knopf, Richard Moose, Brett Smith, Dr. Susanne Zwingel

Complutense University of Madrid

Students:
Joan Pedro, Luis Luján

Faculty Evaluator:
Dra. Ana I. Segovia

University of California, Berkeley

Students:
Stephanie Hanawalt, Yari Sandel, Kajal Shahali, Josh Wolf, Laralyn Yee

University of California, Davis

Faculty Evaluator:
Andrea Allen, OBGYN

University of La Laguna

Students:
Alberto Ardèvol Abreu, Ciro Enrique Hernández Rodríguez, Samuel Toledano

Faculty Evaluators:
José Manuel de Pablos Coello, José Manuel Pestano Rodríguez

University of London

Students:
Cruz Alberto Martínez Arcos

York University/Humber College Student

Students:
Scott Fielder

We offer our sincere apologies to anyone that was overlooked. If you believe your name should be on this list, or if you’d like to be on it next year, please contact us!

Project Censored 2009–10 International Judges

JULIE ANDRZEJEWSKI, Professor in Social Responsibility, Saint Cloud State University. Publications: five editions of an anthology entitled,
Oppression and Social Justice: Critical Frameworks

ROBIN ANDERSEN, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, Director of Peace and Justice Studies, Publications:
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT, Director of School, Professor in Journalism and Telecommunications, Bowling Green State University, Publications:
The International New Agencies: the Globalization of News, Media in Global Context

KENN BURROWS, Faculty member for The Institute for Holistic Health Studies, San Francisco State University, Producer and Director of the annual conference Future of Health Care

ERNESTO CARMONA, Chilean journalist and writer, director of the Chilean Council of Journalists, Executive Secretary of the Investigation Commission on attacks against journalists, Latin American Federation of Journalists (CIAP-FELAP)

LIANE CLORFENE-CASTEN, Cofounder and President of Chicago Media Watch, award-winning journalist with credits in national periodicals including
E Magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, Ms., Environmental Health Perspectives, In These Times
, and
Business Ethics
. She is the author of
Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits, and Prevention
.

ELLIOT D. COHEN, Professor, Indian River State College, contributor to
Truthout
and
Truthdig
, Editor in Chief of
International Journal of Applied Philosophy
, Ethics Editor for
Free Inquiry Magazine
, and blogger for
Psychology Today
. Among his recent books is
Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project
(Palgrave-Macmillan)

JOSÉ MANUEL DE PABLOS, Professor, University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) Founder of
Revista Latina de Comunicación Social
, RLCS, a scientific journal Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication

GEOFF DIVIDIAN, Milwaukee investigative journalist, Editor of the
Putman Pit
, an online newspaper

LENORE FOERSTEL, Women for Mutual Security, facilitator of the Progressive International Media Exchange (PRIME)

ROBERT HACKETT, Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University;
Co-director of News Watch Canada since 1993. His most recent publications include
Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles
(Co-Edited with Yuezhi Zhao, 2005), and
Remaking Media: The Struggle To Democratize Public Communication
(with William K. Carroll, 2006)

KEVIN HOWLEY, Associate Professor of Communication, DePauw University; editor of
Understand Community Media
, and author of
Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies

CARL JENSEN, Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies, Sonoma State University; founder and former director of Project Censored; author of
Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News and Why
(1993–1996) and
20 Years of Censored News
(1997)

NICHOLAS JOHNSON,
^*
professor, College of Law, University of Iowa; former FCC Commissioner (1966–1973); author of
How to Talk Back to Your Television Set

CHARLES L. KLOTZER, editor and publisher emeritus,
St. Louis Journalism Review

NANCY KRANICH, past president of the American Library Association (ALA); Senior Research Fellow, Free Expression Policy Project

MARTIN LEE, investigative journalist, media critic and author. He was an original founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in New York and former editor of
Extra Magazine
. Author of
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties and Beyond

DENNIS LOO, Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University Polytechnic University, Pomona, Co-editor of
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
, Seven Stories Press, 2006

PETER LUDES, Professor of Mass Communication, Jacobs University Bremen, Founder in 1997 of German initiative on news enlightenment publishing the most neglected German news (Project Censored Germany)

WILLIAM LUTZ, Professor of English, Rutgers University; former editor of
The Quarterly Review of Doublespeak;
author of
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Anymore
(1966)

SILVIA LAGO MARTINEZ, Professor of Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Co-Director of the Gino Germani Research Institute Program for Research on Information Society

CONCHA MATEO, faculty in the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid); journalist for radio, television, and political organizations in Spain and Latin America. Coordinator for Project Censored Research in Europe and Latin America

MARK CRISPIN MILLER, Professor of Media Ecology, New York University, author, and activist

BRIAN MURPHY, Associate Professor of Communications Studies, Niagara University specializing in Media Programming and Management, Investigation and Reporting, Media History and Theory, and International Communication

JACK L. NELSON,
^*
Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University; author of 16 books, including
Critical Issues in Education
(1996), and more than 150 articles

PETER PHILLIPS, Professor Sociology, Sonoma State University; Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2009; President of Media Freedom Foundation; Editor/Co-Editor of 14 editions of
Censored
, and Co-editor of
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
, Seven Stories Press, 2006

ANA I. SEGOVIA, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

NANCY SNOW, Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton and Adjunct Professor of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is the author or editor of seven books, including
Information War
and
Propaganda, Inc
.

SHEILA RABB WEIDENFELD,
^*
president of DC Productions, Ltd.; former press secretary to Betty Ford

ROB WILLIAMS, Faculty at Champlain College in Burlington, VT; former Board Co-President with the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)

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