andy lee roth is the associate director of Project Censored and coeditor of nine previous editions of the Censored yearbook. He coordinates the Project’s Validated Independent News program. His research, on topics ranging from ritual to broadcast news interviews to communities organizing for parklands, has been published in such journals as the International Journal of Press/Politics; Social Studies of Science; Media, Culture & Society; City & Community; and Sociological Theory. He earned a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in sociology and anthropology at Haverford College. He has taught courses in sociology at Citrus College, Pomona College, Sonoma State University, the College of Marin, and Bard College, and now lives in Seattle with his sweetheart and their two wonderful cats.
mickey huff is the current director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. He has edited or coedited 11 annual volumes of Censored and has contributed numerous chapters to them, dating back to 2008. His most recent book, coauthored with Nolan Higdon, is United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what we can do about it) (City Lights Publishers Open Media Series, August 2019). Additionally, he has coauthored several chapters on media and propaganda for scholarly publications. Huff received the Beverly Kees Educator Award as part of the 2019 James Madison Freedom of Information Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California. He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is co-chair of the History Department. He is also a lecturer in communications at California State University, East Bay, and has taught sociology of media at Sonoma State University. Huff is executive producer and cohost of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program founded in 2010, which is produced for the historic studios of KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California, and broadcast on more than 50 community radio stations across the United States.
Huff currently serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and Society and for the past several years has worked with the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the Banned Books Week Coalition. He is one of the founding members of the Global Critical Media Literacy Project and also serves on the advisory board regarding matters of critical media literacy at Credder.com. He is a longtime musician and composer, and resides with his family in Sonoma County, California.
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