Project Censored's judges

The panel of judges for this year's Project Censored is:

Robin Andersen, associate professor and chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University.

Richard Barnet, author of 15 books and numerous articles for the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, the Progressive.

Liane Clorfene-Casten, cofounder and president, Chicago Media Watch.

Lenore Foerstel, Women for Mutual Security; facilitator, Progressive International Media Exchange.

George Gerbner, dean emeritus, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Hackett, professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University; director, News Watch Canada.

Carl Jensen, founder and former director, Project Censored; author, Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News and Why (1990-1996) and 20 Years of Censored News (1997).

Sut Jhally, professor of communications, University of Massachusetts; executive director, Media Education Foundation.

Nicholas Johnson, professor, College of Law, University of Iowa; former FCC commissioner (1966-1973); author, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set.

Rhoda H. Karpatkin, president, Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.

Charles L. Klotzer, editor and publisher emeritus, St. Louis Journalism Review.

Nancy Kranich, former president, American Library Association.

Judith Krug, director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association.

Martin Lee, investigative journalist, media critic, author.

William Lutz, professor of English, Rutgers University; former editor, Quarterly Review of Doublespeak.

Julianne Malveaux, economist and columnist; King Features and Pacifica Radio talk show host.

Robert W. McChesney, research associate professor, Institute of Communications Research and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Cynthia McKinney, first African American woman from Georgia to serve in U.S. House of Representatives (1992-2002).

Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media ecology, New York University; director, Project on Media Ownership.

Jack L. Nelson, professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University.

Michael Parenti, political analyst, lecturer, author of several books on media.

Dan Perkins, political cartoonist (pen name Tom Tomorrow); creator, This Modern World.

Barbara Seaman, lecturer; author, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth and other books; cofounder, National Women's Health Network.

Erna Smith, professor of journalism, San Francisco State University.

Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist on media and politics; coauthor, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You; executive director, Institute for Public Accuracy.

Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, president, D.C. Productions; former press secretary to Betty Ford.

Project Censored's book Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories will be in bookstores this fall. For more information go to www.projectcensored.org.