The Most Censored Stories of the Year
Each year, publishes its annual survey of independent journalism, State of the Free Press, consisting of stories that corporate news media failed to cover or badly misrepresented.聽
Project Censored, whose is to 鈥渆xpose and oppose news censorship and 鈥 promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking,鈥 has just released . This latest compendium of the focuses on topics such as climate change, criminal justice, abortion, and more.聽
Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored and co-editor of 14 editions of the Project鈥檚 yearbook, spoke with 猫咪社区! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about State of the Free Press 2024.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥 in her 2014聽聽of the same name.
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