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Project Censored

Ocean acidification tops the annual list of important stories ignored by the mainstream media.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez  |  10-02-2014  |  Media

Project Censorednew

From whistleblowers and wealth gaps -- to the notion of journalistic objectivity, here's the news that didn't make the news.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez  |  10-02-2013  |  Media

Project Censored

The expanding police state tops the annual list of stories underreported by the mainstream media.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Yael Chanoff  |  10-10-2012  |  Media

The Worst-Kept Secretsnew

What the major media left out: Project Censored highlights the year's most relevant ignored news.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Rebecca Bowe  |  10-03-2011  |  Media

Censored in a Brave New Worldnew

Project Censored: The top 10 big stories the major news media didn't report in 2009.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Rebecca Bowe  |  09-16-2010  |  Media

Censored! The Top 10 Stories Not Brought to You by Mainstream Medianew

Every year since 1976, Project Censored has spotlighted the 25 most significant news stories that were largely ignored or misrepresented by the mainstream press. Here's what you might not have read this year.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Rebecca Bowe  |  09-30-2009  |  Media

Can a New Generation of Visionaries Revive the Watchdog Press?new

As the traditional media contracts and struggles for survival, new approaches like Huffington Post, Spot.us, and the Public Press are trying to reinvent journalism.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Steven T. Jones and Tim Redmond  |  01-05-2009  |  Media

Project Censored: The Top 10 Stories the US Media Missednew

The mainstream media regularly covers terrorism, but rarely discusses how the fear of attacks is used to manipulate the public and set policy. That's the common thread of many unreported stories last year.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Amanda Witherell  |  10-01-2008  |  Media

Too Many Journalists are Just Genetically Modified Mouthpiecesnew

In 2003, when I was working as an anchor for a San Francisco TV station, newscasters and reporters across the country were asked by the White House to refer to the Iraqi invasion as Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). We were asked to call the war in Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). With press releases in hand, journalists repeated genetically modified words as if their DNA depended upon it.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Leslie Griffith  |  06-11-2008  |  Media

Battleship Metadatanew

California legislation on mapping software would create an expensive new category of public records.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Sarah Phelan  |  03-12-2008  |  Media

Bay Area Newspapers Are About to Take Another Big Hitnew

MediaNews has offered buyouts to about 1,100 employees at newspapers across the Bay Area. If a "significant" number of people don't accept them, the company will resort to layoffs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  G.W. Schulz  |  02-28-2008  |  Media

More Media Consolidation on the Waynew

Single corporations can now dominate media in the top 20 markets.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Amy Hough  |  01-03-2008  |  Media

Bay Area Journalists are Switching Sidesnew

Newspaper shake-ups are leading former journos to the dark side of media relations.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  G.W. Schulz  |  12-28-2007  |  Media

The Top 10 Stories the Media Missed This Past Yearnew

This year's Project Censored presents a chilling portrait of a newly empowered executive branch signing away civil liberties for the sake of an endless and amorphous war on terror -- and for the most part, the press wasn't paying attention.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Amanda Witherell  |  09-05-2007  |  Media

Contemplating Josh Wolfnew

Police Commission revives discussion of why the cops federalized an investigation that denied a journalist's rights.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Sarah Phelan  |  07-18-2007  |  Media

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