Censored 2012 (78 page)

MICKEY HUFF
is the director of Project Censored and is a member of the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation. He is currently an associate professor of history at Diablo Valley College (DVC), located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Huff is radio co-host of the
Project Censored Show
with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips. The program airs as part of The Morning Mix on Pacifica Radio’s KPFA in Berkeley, California, and re-broadcasts on approximately sixty stations weekly as part of the award-winning investigative reporting program
Flashpoints
. Huff is also on the board of directors of No Lies Radio and is a former advisor to the Students for a Democratic Society at DVC. He regularly holds forums on campus with authors and activists from across the country to discuss issues surrounding history, critical thinking, and current events.

Huff has been interviewed by affiliates of NPR, PBS, Pacifica, the New York Times Co., the
Christian Science Monitor, ABC
, the
San Francisco Bay Guardian
, Progressive Radio Network, Voice of Russia, Republic Broadcasting, and many other commercial and independent news media outlets. Previously the co-director of the alternative public opinion polling group Retropoll, he has been a visiting scholar in library science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a lecturer at numerous colleges, including in sociology at Sonoma State University. Huff speaks regularly at venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the United States on issues of censorship, propaganda studies, media literacy, and history. This past year, Huff keynoted and gave presentations at numerous events—including at the Northern California 9/11 Film Festival in Oakland, CA, the Kent State Truth Tribunal in New York City—and hosted the monthly lecture series “Empire, Power, and Propaganda” in Berkeley, CA. He is available for public speaking engagements through the Jodi F. Solomon Speakers Bureau (
http://JodiSolomonSpeakers.com
).

This past year, Huffand Phillips coauthored several chapters in academic publications, which focused on media censorship, propaganda, and the ongoing Truth Emergency relating to the US empire. Huff’s writings and research were included in
Peace Movements Worldwide, Volume 3: Peace Efforts that Work and Why
, edited by Marc Pilisuk and Michael N. Nagler (Praeger);
Media and Social Justice
, edited by Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, and Lora Taub-Pervizpour (Palgrave Macmillan); and
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Volume 19: Government Secrecy
, edited by Susan Maret (Emerald); and
Algorithms of Power: Key Invisibles
, edited by Peter Ludes (Jacobs University Bremen in Germany). Huff has also been published by many online news and commentary sites including Global Research,
Truthout
, Buzzflash,
Dissident Voice, Lew Rockwell, Information Clearinghouse, and the
Daily Censored
, and has appeared on
CounterPunch
, Common Dreams, and AlterNet, among others.

Huff has a long history with Project Censored: he began reading the annual publication in 1993, became a faculty evaluator of censored stories in 2004, and later coauthored a chapter with Dr. Paul Rea in
Censored 2009
. Huff went on to coauthor and co-edit
Censored 2010
and
Censored 2011
with Dr. Peter Phillips. Before becoming the director in 2010, Huff was the associate director of Project Censored for two years, during which time the Project was honored with a PEN Oakland Literary Censorship Award.

Huff currently teaches courses on US history, critical reasoning, sociology of media, and propaganda studies, with special topics courses on “Money, Power, and Politics” and on contemporary historiography, specifically “America, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Case Studies in Media Myth-Making and the Propaganda of Historical Construction.” He is also a musician and composer of over twenty years and lives with his family just outside Berkeley, CA.