The Censored Press – The Publishing Imprint of Project Censored

What is "The Censored Press?"

Established in 2021, The Censored Press is the publishing imprint of Project Censored and its non-profit sponsor, the Media Freedom Foundation. Building on the Project’s yearbook series, website, weekly radio show, and other programs, The Censored Press advances the Project’s promotion of independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking.

Looking Ahead

Out of the gates, The Censored Press will publish five books: State of the Free Press 2022 (January 2022); the newest Project Censored yearbook, State of the Free Press 2023 (December 2022); The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People by Project Censored & The Media Revolution Collective, illustrated by Peter Glanting (December 2022); Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange by Kevin Gosztola (February 2023); and Going Remote: An Educator’s Journey by Adam Bessie and illustrated by Peter Glanting (March 2023).

Project Backing

The Censored Press benefits from a robust partnership with Seven Stories Press, the Project’s long-time publisher and stalwart ally, which will print and distribute Censored Press titles in an arrangement similar to its cooperation with Human Rights Watch to publish HRW’s Annual Report. As publisher Dan Simon recently observed, “At Seven Stories we work with the truest, bravest voices. Project Censored has met that high standard year after year. The team at Project Censored and The Censored Press is among our most important partners.”

The support of generous anonymous donors ensures that The Censored Press will be a sustainable publishing imprint. Its development is guided by a distinguished founding editorial board that includes Mischa Geracoulis, Mickey Huff, Veronica Liu, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Andy Lee Roth, T.M. Scruggs, and Dan Simon.

Current and Future Publications

The Censored Press Editorial Board

Nora Barrows-Friedman

is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014). She has focused on Palestinian human rights issues as a reporter and broadcaster for nearly 20 years.

Mischa Geracoulis

is a journalist, contributing editor at The Markaz Review, and educator focused on human rights and the human condition, identity and intersections, diaspora and displacement. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, journalistic oath of ethics, and critical media literacy inform her body of work and approach to life. Some of Mischa’s research topics include the Armenian Genocide, global refugee crises, rights to adequate housing and equitable education, and press freedom. Follow her on Twitter @MGeracoulis.

Mickey Huff

is the director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Since 2009, he has coedited the Project Censored yearbook, including its most recent volume, State of the Free Press 2022. He is also coauthor, with Nolan Higdon, of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (City Lights, 2019) and Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022).

Veronica Santiago Liu

is the founder and general coordinator of the collective that operates Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, a nonprofit bookstore and community space in Washington Heights, NYC. Prior to that she was managing editor then senior editor for more than a decade at Seven Stories Press, where she currently contributes as editor at large. Veronica was the former in-house editor of the Project Censored yearbooks at Seven Stories Press.

Andy Lee Roth

is the associate director of Project Censored where he coordinates the Campus Affiliates Program, a news media research network of several hundred students and faculty at two dozen colleges and universities across North America. His research and writing have been published in a variety of outlets, including Index on Censorship, In These Times, YES! Magazine, Media, Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Press/Politics.

T. M. Scruggs

is professor emeritus in ethnomusicology at the University of Iowa, who has published in print, audio, and video format on Central American, Cuban, and Venezuelan music and dance and US jazz. He is involved in community radio in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the United States, including the KPFA (Berkeley, CA) Local Station Board, and the Pacifica National Board. Scruggs serves as the executive producer for The Real News Network and as a board member of Truthout and the Media Freedom Foundation.

Dan Simon

is the founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press. He is the co-author, with Jack Hoffman, of Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman and translator of Van Gogh: Self Portraits by Pascal Bonafoux.