Journalism

With a discerning eye, Censored 2020 focuses the public's attention on the most important but underreported news stories of 2018-2019. These stories expose the corporate news media's systemic blind spots while highlighting the crucial role played by independent journalists in providing the kind of news necessary for informed, engaged citizens.

The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with more in-depth analysis.

Censored 2018 features contributions by Edward S. Herman, assessing the relevance of the Herman-Chomsky “propaganda model” on its thirtieth anniversary; Ralph Nader, on citizen action and mass media censorship; Rachael Jolley, editor of the Index on Censorship; and Gennie Gebhart of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; as well as chapters on the new American authoritarianism, by Nolan Higdon and Nicholas L. Baham III; on defamation law and free speech, by Elizabeth Blakey; and an original comic by Adam Bessie and Peter Glanting on “Trump Universe.” Plus, the Top 25 Censored news stories of 2016-2017, a rundown on the Junk Food News and News Abuse that diverted public attention from real and vital reporting, and a foreword by Deepa Kumar, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, and recipient of the 2016 Dallas Smythe Award.

"Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2014-2015, covering such topics as illegal dumping of fracking wastewater, sexual assault of Colombian children by US military, unprocessed rape kits, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster."

"Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2013-2014, covering such topics as WikiLeaks revelations, the Ukraine crisis, nuclear power industry immunity, net neutrality, global warming, U.S. prison system population, digital privacy, charter schools, and income inequality."

"Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2012-2013, covering such topics as global warming, hunger in America, GMO's, whistleblowers, human rights, hate groups, fracking, nuclear weapons, and income inequality."

"Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2011-2012, covering such topics as climate change, civil liberties, the war on drugs, education reform, student debt, and income inequality."