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- E-Mail:
- rwmcches@express.cites.uiuc.edu
- Interests:
- Diversity / Inclusion, Media Industries, Politics / Political Communication, Media Reform Movement, Media History
- Discipline(s)
- Communications
- Role(s):
- Researcher, Activist/Advocate
Current Institutional Affiliation(s) (Past Affiliations)
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Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL, United States
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Institute of Communications Research
College of MediaUniversity of Illinois-- Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, Illinois, United States
Biography
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. 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.
McChesney has written or edited sixteen books. McChesney has also written some 150 journal articles and book chapters and another 200 newspaper pieces, magazine articles and book reviews. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
McChesney’s most recent book is Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media, published by New Press in October 2007. A companion book, The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press), will appear in spring 2008. His other recent books include: with John Nichols, Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy and The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century, published in 2004.
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. While teaching at Wisconsin, he was selected as one of the top 100 classroom teachers on the Madison campus. From 2000 to 2004 he served as co-editor of Monthly Review – the independent socialist magazine founded by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman in 1949.
McChesney is an editor for several scholarly communication journals and co-edits the University of Illinois' History of communication book series.[2] He has served on the editorial board of The Progressive and the board of directors for In These Times[3]
Publications and Resources
Books
- Robert McChesney. Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and The Future Of Media. The New Press, 2007
- Robert McChesney. Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy. Seven Stories Press, 2001
- John Nichols, Robert McChesney. Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy. The New Press
- Robert McChesney. The Problem of the Media U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. Monthly Review Press
- Robert McChesney. Telecommunications, mass media, and democracy : the battle for the control of U.S. broadcasting, 1928-1935 . Oxford University Press
- Robert McChesney. Rich media, poor democracy : communication politics in dubious times. University of Illinois Press
- John Nichols, Robert McChesney. Our Media, Not Theirs: the Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media. Seven Stories Press
- Robert McChesney. Media Matters With Bob McChesney.
- Robert McChesney. Labor and the marketplace of ideas : WCFL and the battle for labor radio broadcasting, 1928-1934. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communicatio
Journal Articles
- Robert McChesney. Media Policy Goes to Main Street: The Uprising of 2003. The Communication Review.
- Robert McChesney. Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting: The 1997 Spry Memorial Lecture . Canadian Journal of Communication.
