Robert McChesney
Education
B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1976
Biographical Note
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2002 he was the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization – www.freepress.net – and served as its President until April 2008, and remains on its Board of Directors. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on NPR-affiliate WILL-AM radio.
McChesney has written or edited seventeen 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 26 languages.
McChesney has been the subject of more than 130 published profiles and interviews. In 2008 the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their “50 visionaries who are changing the world.” In 2001 Adbusters Magazine named him one of the “Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism.” In 2006 right-winger David Horowitz included McChesney on his list of the “101 most dangerous professors in America.”
Publication Type(s)
Non-Fiction
Latest Publication
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again, Nation Books, 2011
How did Evergreen help you in your career?
It educated me tremendously.