Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025

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Highlighting the year's most significant independent journalism-including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories-Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled. Highlighting the year's most significant independent journalism-including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories-Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled. State of the Free Press 2025 shows how independent journalism can promote civic engagement and reconnect people who have otherwise lost interest in sensational "news" that distracts and polarizes us. Balancing critical analysis with optimistic vision, the book's diverse contributors champion press freedom and critical media literacy to hold the powerful accountable and promote a more just and inclusive society. State of the Free Press 2025 is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.

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MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publication of Censored 2009.