Peter Phillips

Peter Phillips is professor of political sociology (emeritus) at Sonoma State University, former director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010, and president of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or coeditor of fourteen editions of Censored, was coeditor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney, and the editor of two editions of the Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism. He is author of Giants: The Global Power Elite. He was a cohost of the weekly Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff from 2010 to 2017, originating from KPFA in Berkeley, California, and airing on fifty stations nationwide. He taught courses in political sociology, sociology of power, sociological of media, sociology of conspiracies, and investigative sociology. He was winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 1997 for Best Political Book, PEN Censorship Award 2008, Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications 2009, and the Pillar Human Rights Award from the National Associations of Whistleblowers 2014.