* Our Mrs. McChesney ( 1915 ) ( with George V. Hobart )

* " Media Matters " interview with Robert McChesney, 14 November 2004

McChesney frequently writes with John Nichols and John Bellamy Foster.

It is awarded to researchers and activists who, through their research and / or production work, have made significant contributions to the study and practice of democratic communication .” Along with John Nichols, McChesney was awarded the U. S. Newspaper Guild ’ s 2010 Herbert Block Freedom Award ; according to the Guild ’ s Executive Council, “ the two of you have done more for press freedom than anyone.

McChesney co-edits, with John Nerone, the History of Communication Series for the University of Illinois Press, serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and is a research advisor to numerous academic and civic organizations.

Published originally by the University of Illinois Press in 1999 with a paperback edition published by New Press in 2000, this book is arguably the most widely read and renowned of McChesney ’ s books.

Nichols and McChesney are sharply critical of the news media for being complicit with warmaking and conventional wisdom asininity, and argue that structural reform will be the only effective solution.

The book weaves in McChesney ’ s personal odyssey through academia, and concludes with perhaps the most detailed account of the rise of the U. S. media reform movement from the mid-1990s to 2007.

Along with John Nichols and Josh Silver, in late 2002 McChesney co-founded Free Press, a national organization dedicated to media reform and democratization.

John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, It's the Media, Stupid !, with forewords by Paul Wellstone, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Ralph Nader.

Laura Stein and Amit Schejter, “ Interview with Robert McChesney ,” Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol.

“ The State of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney .” In Meghan Boler, editor, Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times.

Derrick Jensen, " Free Press For Sale, How Corporations Have Bought the First Amendment: An Interview with Robert McChesney.

Austin Indymedia, “ Web Exclusive McChesney Interview ,” with Matt Tedrow, Austin Independent Media Center, 11 February.

Jeremy Glantz, “ 20 Questions with Robert McChesney and John Nichols ,” In These Times website, 18 May.

Matthew Rothschild, “ Why We Need to Subsidize Journalism: An Exclusive Interview with Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols ,” The Progressive, 24 January.

Tanner Mirrlees, “ Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney ,” The Bullet, 9 August.

An Interview with Robert McChesney ,” The Nonprofit Quarterly, Fall, pp. 20 – 21.

Joseph McCombs, “ No News, Good News: Talking with Media Agitator Robert McChesney about Propaganda, PBS, and punditry ,” Village Voice online, 13 July.

Brian K. Mahoney, “ The Problem of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney ,” Chronogram, July, pp. 16 – 23.

Bill Moyers, “ Bill Moyers Talks with John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney, PBS website, 21 February.

Meria Heller, “ Deliberate ‘ Dumbing Down ’ of America: Meria with Robert McChesney .” In Meria Heller, The Awakening of an American: How My Country Broke My Heart.

Jared Ball, “ Interview with Professor Robert McChesney ,” Organized C. O. U. P, September.

Brian Sarzynski, “ Thinking Outside the Vox ( Populi ): An Interview with Outspoken Media Critic Robert McChesney ,” mountainx. com, Vol.

Proposed development of Highland Creek, on McChesney Avenue Extension, one of a number of proposed developments to raise concern in the town

McChesney also hosts the “ Media Matters ” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio ; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area.

In 2006 David Horowitz included McChesney on his list of the “ 101 most dangerous professors in America .”

In 2012 McChesney was awarded the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy, presented by the International Communication Association.

McChesney has served on the editorial board of The Progressive and the board of directors for In These Times, and served on the Board of Directors of Free Speech Radio News He writes periodically for The Nation and frequently for Monthly Review.

McChesney ’ s first book was based in part on his 1989 PhD dissertation ; it had an additional three years of archival research.

Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy won critical acclaim, awards and instantly put McChesney on the map as an original and major communication scholar.

McChesney argued the United States in 2007 qualified on the first two counts and looked highly likely to be entering a period when the third count would apply as well.

The nearly 600 page book touches on most of the themes of McChesney ’ s research, and has chapters on globalization, the new economy, U. S. media history and sport.

Since 2002, Bob McChesney has hosted Media Matters, a call-in radio show broadcast weekly on WILL-AM.

McChesney sits on the board of directors of numerous public interest organizations, including the Institute for Public Accuracy ,.

Robert W. McChesney & Dan Schiller, “ The Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the Emerging Global Debate over Media Ownership and Regulation .” Paper prepared for the UNRISD Programme on Information Technologies and Social Development as part of UNRISD background work for the World Summit on the Information Society, June.

Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, “ Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott on the Centrality of Media Reform ,” Tikkun, January – February, pp. 66 – 67.

Robert W. McChesney & Josh Silver, “ Major Media Struggles Loom on the Horizon ,” Common Dreams website, 4 August.

Lawrence Lessig & Robert W. McChesney, “ No Tolls on the Internet ,” Washington Post, 8 June, p. A23.

John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, “ Bush ’ s War on the Press ,” The Nation, 5 December, pp. 9 – 10.

“ Robert McChesney ’ s ‘ Theses on Media Deregulation ’,” Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom website, July.

* 2011 Media critic and Free Press founder Robert W. McChesney on Rag Radio Interviewed by Thorne Dreyer, February 11, 2011 ( 54: 35 )

“ Robert McChesney and John Nichols on ‘ The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that will Begin the World Again ,” Democracy Now !, 4 February.