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.

Censored Press Mission and History

The Censored Press (TCP) publishes groundbreaking books that challenge media censorship and promote critical media literacy.

Project Censored launched TCP in 2021 in partnership with Seven Stories Press, the longtime publisher of the Project’s award-winning yearbook series. Together, TCP and Seven Stories published nine books, including four editions of the State of the Free Press yearbook (2022–2025); The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People, by Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective (2022); Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, by Kevin Gosztola (2023); Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey, by Adam Bessie and Peter Glanting (2023); Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity, by Peter Phillips (2024); and Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, by Omar Zahzah (2025).

In 2025, with the publication of Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames, by Shealeigh Voitl, Andy Lee Roth, and Project Censored, and State of the Free Press 2026, the fiftieth anniversary edition of Project Censored’s yearbook, The Censored Press began to publish titles on its own.

TCP is guided by a distinguished editorial board that includes Nora Barrows-Friedman, Mischa Geracoulis, Mickey Huff, Veronica Liu, Andy Lee Roth, T.M. Scruggs, Dan Simon, and Shealeigh Voitl. Read more about the editorial board’s members here.

Publications

The Censored Press Editorial Board

Shealeigh Voitl

is the associate director of Project Censored. She is a co-editor of the Project’s yearbook series and co-author of Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames. Shealeigh’s work has also been published in Mondoweiss, The Progressive, Truthout, and Ms. Magazine. She lives in Chicago.

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 (2014). She has focused on Palestinian human rights issues as a reporter and broadcaster for more than twenty years.

Mischa Geracoulis

is the production lead at The Censored Press, and outreach & engagement officer at Project Censored, contributor to Project Censored’s State of the Free Press yearbook series, a Project Judge, and author of Media Framing and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage (2025).

Mickey Huff

is the executive director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Since 2009, he has coedited Project Censored’s State of the Free Press yearbook series. He is coauthor, with Nolan Higdon, of United States of Distraction (2019) and Let’s Agree to Disagree (2022); and a coauthor of The Media and Me (2022). He is also Professor of Journalism at the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College.

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 and 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 editor-at-large for Project Censored and The Censored Press. He is a co-editor of the Project’s State of the Free Press yearbook series, and a coauthor of The Media and Me. Since joining Project Censored in 2006, Roth has published in numerous outlets, including Index on Censorship, In These Times, YES! Magazine, Truthout, and The Progressive. He holds a PhD in sociology from UCLA, and serves on the boards of the Media Freedom Foundation and Weave News.

T. M. Scruggs

is professor emeritus as the first token ethnomusicologist at the University of Iowa. He has taught on music and communication at Florida International University (Miami), Universidad Centro Americana (Managua, Nicaragua), Universidad de los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela), UC Davis, and Stanford. He has published in print, audio, and video format on Central American, Cuban, and Venezuelan music and dance as well as US jazz. He researched and aided community radio in Nicaragua and Venezuela, and hosted shows on community stations in Portland (Oregon), Chicago, and Iowa City. He served several years on the KPFA (Berkeley) Local Station Board, including a stressful stint on the Pacifica National Board. Scruggs serves as board member of several media organizations, including The Real News Network and the Media Freedom Foundation. He is executive producer of documentaries that involve direct and indirect media censorship, most recently Theaters of War, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, and the upcoming War Made Invisible.

Dan Simon

is the founder and editorial director of Seven Stories Press, and the author of Ashland, a debut novel published in February 2026 by Europa Editions.