2009. *“The Media System Goes Global.” In Daya Thussu, editor, International Communication — A Reader. Routledge.
2009. “Public Scholarship and the Communications Policy Agenda.” In Amit Schejter, editor, ÉAnd Communications for All: A Policy Agenda for the New Administration. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, pp. 41-54.
2009. *“Political Problem, Political Solutions.” In Brooke Erin Duffy and Joseph Turow, editors, Key Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts. New York: Routledge, pp, 60-89
2008. “How to Think about Journalism: Looking Backward, Going Forward.” In Barbie Zelizer, editor, Explorations in Communication and History. London: Routledge, pp. 190-218.
2008. “The State of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney.” In Meghan Boler, editor, Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 53-70.
2008. “Media and Politics in the United States Today.” In Ronald E. Rice, editor, Media Ownership: Research and Regulation. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, pp. 29-47.
2008. *“Will the Internet Set Us Free?” In Miroff, Seidelman and Swanstrom, editors, Debating Democracy: A Reader. Houghton-Mifflin.
2008. *Robert McChesney and John Nichols, “It’s the Media, Stupid.” In William F. Grover and Joseph G.Peschek, editors, Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics, Seventh Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 108-118.
2008. *“The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy.” In Jin Cao and Yuezhi Zhao, editors, The Political Economy of Communication: A Reader. Fudan University Press. (Also published in Chinese by Beijing University Press.)
2008. *“The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field.” In Jin Cao and Yuezhi Zhao, editors, The Political Economy of Communication: A Reader. Fudan University Press. (Also published in Chinese by Beijing University Press.)
2007. *“So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System.” In Michael Ryan, editor, Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Blackwell.
2007. *“Rich Media, Poor Democracy.” In Ralph Negrine & James Stanyer, editors, The Political Communication Reader. Routledge.
2006. “Foreword.” In Robert A. Hackett & William K. Carroll, Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication. New York: Routledge, pp. ix-x.
2006. *”Rich Media, Poor Democracy.” In Janet Youngblood, editor, Learning for Political Partisanship and Participation. Cambridge Scholars Press.
2006. Ben Scott & Robert W. McChesney, “A Century of Radical Media Criticism in the USA.” In David Berry and John Theobold, editors, Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy. Montreal: Black Rose Books, pp. 177-191.
2006. *”The New Global Media: It’s a Small World of Big Conglomerates.” In Communication and Democratic Society, second edition. Thomson Learning.
2005. “Telling the Truth at a Moment of Truth: U.S. News Media and the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.” In Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors, Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006. London: The Merlin Press, pp. 116-133.
2005. Robert W. McChesney & Robert A. Hackett, “Beyond Wiggle Room: American Corporate Media’s Democratic Deficit, Its Global Implications, and Prospects for Reform.” In Robert A. Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao, editors, Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 225-244.
2005. Robert W. McChesney & JohnNichols, “Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement.” In Alan Curtis, editor, Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: Restoring America’s Promise at Home and Abroad. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 367-376.
2005. “Foreword.” In Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith, The Quieted Voice: The Rise and Demise of Localism in American Radio. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, pp. ix-xi.
2005. *John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney and Harry Magdoff, “Iraq: Another Vietnam?” In Is Iraq Another Vietnam?. Published in Greek by the Athens, Greece office of Monthly Review Press., pp. 13-24.
2005. “The Emerging Struggle for a Free Press.” In Robert W. McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott, editors, The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp, 9-20.
2005. *”The New Global Media.” In Erik P. Bucy, editor, Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader, second edition. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, pp. 92-96.
2004. *Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, “The Making of a Movement: Getting Serious About Media Reform.” In Annual Editions: American Government. Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.
2004. “The Political Economy of International Communication.” In Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain, editors, Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistances. Penang, Malaysia: Southbound, pp. 3-22.
2004. John Bellamy Foster & Robert W. McChesney, “Preface.” In Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 7-11.
2004. *John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff & Robert W. McChesney, “Kipling, the ‘White Man’s Burden,’ and U.S. Imperialism.” In Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 12-21.
2004. “Foreword.” In Mari F. Jones, editor, Annotations: A Guide to the Independent Critical Press, 3rd edition. Baltimore: Alternative Press Center.
2004. Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, “Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement.” In Alan Curtis, editor, Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense: Restoring America’s Promise at Home and Abroad. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 367-376.
2004. *”The New Global Media.” In Taking Sides: Mass Media and Society. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
2004. *“Graham Spry and Public Broadcasting.” In Daniel J. Robinson, editor, Communication History in Canada. Oxford University Press, pp. 177-186.
2004. “Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain: The Sad State of Political Economy in U.S. Media Studies.” In Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks, editors, Toward a Political Economy of Culture: Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 41-64.
2004. Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, “Up in Flames.” In Katrina vanden Heuval and Robert L. Borosage, Taking Back America and Taking Down the Radical Right. New York: nation Books, pp. 160-172.
2004. *“The New Global Media.” In Murray Forman, Alison Hearn and P. David Marshall, editors, Media, Culture and Society. Stamford, Conn.: Thomson Custom Publishing, pp. 69-72.
2004. “Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, “Introduction.” In Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott, editors, Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism. New York: The New Press, pp. 1-30.
2004. *“U.S. Media at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century.” In Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott, editors, Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism. New York: The New Press, pp. 60-75.
2003. *“The Media/Democracy Paradox.” In ACP-Media, Culture & Society. Thomson Custom Publishing.
2003. “The Golden Age of Irony.” In Peter Hart, The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 7-10.
2003. *Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, “The Making of a Movement: Getting Serious About Media Reform.” In Crossroads: Readings in Social Problems. Pearson Custom Publishing.
2003. “Corporate Media, Global Capitalism.” In Simon Cottle, editor, Media Organization and Production. London: Sage, pp. 27-39.
2003. *Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, “The Making of a Movement: Getting Serious About Media Reform.” In Bruce Stinebrickner, editor, American Government 02/03, 32nd edition, McGraw Hill Dushkin.
2003. *"Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting." In Daniel J. Robinson, editor, Communication History in Canada: A Reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press
2003. “Democratizing the Media.” In Lynn Curtis, editor, Alternatives to American Policy Since September 11. Washington, D.C.: Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, 2003, pp. 139-150.
2003. *”The Media/Democracy Paradox.” In Media, Society and Culture, 2nd edition. Thomson Learning.
2003. *”The New Global Media: It’s a Small World of Big Conglomerates.” In Entertainment and Society. Sage.
2003. “Midia Global, neoliberalismo e imperialismo.” In Denis de Moraes, editor, Por Uma Outra Communicacao: Midia, Mundializacao Cultural e Poder. Rio de Janiero: Editora Record, pp. 217-242. [translated into Portuguese.]
2003. *"Oligopoly: The Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players." In D. Cannon, K. Mayer, J. Coleman, editors, The Enduring Debate. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
2003. *Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney, “The Rise of the Global Media.” In Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, editors, Planet TV: A Global Television Reader. New York: New York University Press, pp. 21-39.
2003. “Public Broadcasting: Past, Present É and Future?” In Eric Peterson, Lee Artz, DeeDee Halleck, and Michael McCauley, editors, Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest. M.E. Sharpe, pp. 10-24.
2003. *"Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism." In Walter Carl, editor, Introduction to Communication Studies. Mason, Ohio: Thomson Custom Publishing.
2003. *John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, “It’s the Media, Stupid.” In Joseph Peschek & William Grover, editors, Voices of Dissent, fifth edition. Addison Wesley Longman.
2003. Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, “Introduction,” to Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check. University of Illinois Press, pp. ix-xxxiii. [ Reprint of 1919 book.]
SELECTED REVIEWS:
American Journalism, Vo. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2003): p. 95. By Randall S. Sumpter.
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2003, p.57. By James Boylan
Victoria Times Colonist, July 20, 2003, p. D10. By George Fetherling.
2003. *”Thank the Lord, It’s a War to End all Wars ... Or, How I Learned to Suspend Critical Judgment and Love the Bomd,” in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors, 9/11 in American Culture. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira Press, pp. 114-116.
2003. “A Rich Media Democracy.” In Raymond Seidelman, et. al., editors, Debating Democracy, fourth edition. Houghton Mifflin.
2002. "Children and Media Policy." In Cecilia von Feilitzen and Ulla Carlsson, Children, Media and Globalisation: Yearbook 2002. Stockholm: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen and Nordicom.
2002. *Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols, "The Making of a Movement: Getting Serious About Media Reform." In Bruce Stinebrickner, editor, American Government 02/03, 32nd edition, McGraw Hill Dushkin.
2002. *"The Titanic Sails On: Why the Internet won't sink the media giants." In Gail Dines and Jean Humez, editors, Gender, Race and Class in Media, second edition. Sage.
2000. "Whatever Happened to Cultural Studies?" In Mary Vavrus and Catherine Warren, editors. American Cultural Studies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 76-93.
2002. *"Nader's Moment," In Craig Aaron, editor, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years of In These Times and Beyond. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 44-45.
2002. *"Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism." In Yin Hong and Li Bin, editors, Globalization and Mass Communication: Conflict, Merge and Interact. Beijing: Tsinghua University Publishing House
2002. "September 11 and the Structural Limitations of U.S. Journalism." In Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan, editors, Journalism After September 11: When Trauma Shapes the News. London: Routledge. Pp. 91-100.
2002. "Corporate Media, Global Capitalism." In Simon Cottle, editor, Media Organisation and Production. London: Sage.
2002. "Public Broadcasting: Past, Present & and Future?" In Eric Peterson, Lee Artz, and Michael McCauley, editors, Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest. M.E. Sharpe.
2002. "Strengthen Independent (Nonprofit and Noncommercial) Media." In Andreas Hernandez, editor, 50 Things You Can Do To Help End Corporate Rule and Strengthen Democracy.
2002. *"Journalism, Democracy and Class Struggle." In April Lipinsky, et. al., editors, Shaping Discourses: Readings for University Writers. Boston: Pearson, pp. 335-362.
2002. *"Crusade Against Mammon: Fr. Haney, WLWL, and the Debate over Radio in the 1930s." In Michele Hilmes, editor, Connections: A Broadcasting History Reader. Wadsworth.
2002. "The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism." In Kristina Borjesson, editor, Into the Buzzsaw:Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of the Free Press. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, pp. 363-381.
2002. "The Political Economy of International Communications." In Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain, editors, Revisiting Media Ownership: Global Trends and Local Resistance. London: WACC & Southbound.
2002. *"The New Global Media." In Kimberley B. Massey, editor, Readings in Mass Communication, second edition. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2002. "Introduction." In Craig Aaron, editor, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years of In These Times and Beyond. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. xix-xxvii.
2001. John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, and Robert W. McChesney, "Aprs l'attaque... la guerre contre le terrorisme", in Rmy Herrera, editor, L'empire en guerre. Le monde aprs le 11 septembre. Paris: Le Temps des Cerises; Brussels: EPO , pp. 141-150
2001. *Derrick Jensen, "Free Press For Sale, How Corporations Have Bought the First Amendment: An Interview with Robert McChesney." In Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, editors, Alternative Library Literature, 2000/2001. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
2001. *"Campaign Spending and the First Amendment." In Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, editors, Alternative Library Literature, 2000/2001. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
2001. *"The Global Media Giants: The Nine Firms that Dominate the World." In Kent Heiner and Catherine Austin Fitts, editors, It’s the Economy, Stupid: The Illicit Drug Trade and Its Impact on the American Political Process. http://members.home.net/memresearch/econ/
2001. *"Oligopoly: The Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players." In Stanley Feingold, editor, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Political Issues, twelfth edition. Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
2001. "The Global Restructuring of Media Ownership." In Marc Raboy, editor, Global Media Policy in the New Millennium. Luton: University of Luton Press, pp. 149-162.
2001. *"The Global Media System." In Erik P. Busey, editor, The Information Age Reader. Wadsworth.
2001. "Resistance to the Global Media System." In Owen V. Johnson and David Merrill, editors, The Global Journalist, fifth edition. New York: Longman.
2001. "Ethics and Global Regulation of Communications." In Jose Vidal-Beneyto, editor, The Global Public Space, the Media and the Information Society. Paris: UNESCO.
2000. *"Are the Mass Media Dominated by the Powerful Few?" In George McKenna and Stanley Feingold, editors, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Political Issues, 12th edition. McGraw-Hill.
2000. "Communication as a Public Good." In Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk & Nancy Holmstrom, editors, Not for Sale: In Defense of Public Goods. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, pp. 345-366.
2000. *"Oligopoly: The Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players." In Peter Phillips, editor, Censored 2000: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Censored News Stories. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 187-197. http://www.progressive.org/mcc1199.htm
2000. *"The Global Media Giants." In Robin Andersen & Lance Strate, editors, Critical Studies in Media Commercialism. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 59-70.
2000. "Foreword." In Charles Tillinghast, American Broadcast Regulation and the First Amendment: Another Look. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, pp. vii-x.
2000. Edward S. Herman & Robert W. McChesney, "The Global Media." In David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds., The Global Transformation Reader (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity), pp. 216-229.
2000. "So Much for the Magic of Technologies and Free Markets: The World Wide Web and the Global Corporate Order." In Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Metaphor, Magic, and Power. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 5-35.
1999. "Entertainment Media and Violence." In To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility: A Thirty Year Update of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Summary Report. Washington, D.C.: The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation. pp. 57-62.
1999. *Edward S. Herman & Robert W. McChesney, "The Global Media in the Late 1990s." In Hugh Mackay and Tim O'Sullivan, editors, The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation. London: Sage, pp. 178-210.
1999. *"The Global Media Giants." In Mass Media. Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-Hill.
1999. "Foreword." In Greg Ruggiero, Microradio Broadcasting: (Low) Power to the People. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 9-12.
1999. *"The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935." In Colin Gordon, editor, Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
1999. "Introduction." In Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 7-16.
1999. *"The Global Media Giants." In Ray E. Hiebert, editor. Impact of Mass Media, fourth edition. New York: Longman, pp. 39-42.
1999. "Global Media and Democracy." In Peter Wiebel, editor. Global Media and Culture. Graz, Austria.
1998. "The Political Economy of Global Communication." In Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, & John Bellamy Foster, editors, Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of Global Communication Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 1-26.
1998. "The Political Economy of Radio." In Stephen Dunifer and Ron Sakolsky, Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook. San Francisco: AK Press, pp. 17-24.
1998. *"Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy." In Joseph Peschek & William Grover, editors, Voices of Dissent, third edition. Addison Wesley Longman.
1998. "This Communication Revolution is Brought to You By ... U.S. Media at the Dawn of the 21st Century." In Peter Phillips, editor, Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Censored News Stories. New York: Seven Stories Press, pp. 95-108.
1998. "Media Convergence and Globalisation." In Daya Thussu, editor, Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance. London: Arnold.
1997. "The Tragedy of Public Service Broadcasting in the United States: Educators and the Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935." In Lee Artz, editor, Communication Practices and Democratic Society. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt.
1997. "Foreword." In Danny Schechter, The More You Watch, The Less You Know. New York: Seven Stories Press. http://www.igc.org/globalvision/moreuwatch/book-forward-mcchesney.html
1997. "Corporations and the Media." In Eugene S. Farley, editor, Corporate Power, Citizen Power: Striking a Balance. Madison: The Madison Institute.
1997. "Global Media for the Global Economy." In Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors, We The Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. New York: The New Press, pp. 12-14.
1997. *"Rewriting the Truth." In Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors, We The Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. New York: The New Press, pp. 74-75.
1997. *"The Internet and the Digital Revolution." In Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors, We The Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. New York: The New Press, pp. 178-180.
1997. *"Radio History." In Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, editors, We The Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. New York: The New Press, pp. 132-133.
1997. *"The Global Struggle for Democratic Communication." In Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, eds., Alternative Library Literature, 1994/95: A Biennial Anthology. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company.
1997. "The Long View: The Cultural Environment Movement in Historical Perspective." Published Proceedings of the Founding Convention, Cultural Environment Movement, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.
1997. "The Global Commercial Communication Revolution and the Assault on Democracy." Published Proceedings of 1996 Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Material Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
1997. "The Second Time as Farce? Lessons from the History of Broadcasting for the Development of the Internet and Cyberspace." Published Proceedings of INET '96, The Internet: Transforming Our Society Now, 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1997. "The Communication Revolution: The Market and the Prospect for Democracy." In Democratizing Communication?: Comparative Perspectives on Information and Power, edited by Mashoed Bailie, Dwayne Winseck, and Sunny Yoon. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, pp. 57-78.
1996. "The Internet and the Future of Democracy." In Media and Democracy: A Book of Readings and Resources, edited by Don Hazen and Larry Smith. San Francisco: Institute for Alternative Journalism, pp. 22-32.
1996. "The Payne Fund and Radio Broadcasting, 1928-1935." In Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie and Kathryn H. Fuller, Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 303-335, 377-384.
1995. *"Off Limits: An Inquiry into the Lack of Debate Over the Ownership, Structure and Control of the Mass Media in U.S. Political Life." In The Political Economy of the Media, edited by Peter Golding and Graham Murdock. London: Edward Elgar.
1994. *"Critical Communication Research at the Crossroads." In Defining Media Studies: Reflections on the Future of the Field. Edited by Mark R. Levy. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 340-346.
1993. "Conflict, Not Consensus: The Debate Over Broadcast Communication Policy, l930-l935." In Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History. Edited by William Solomon and Robert W. McChesney. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 222-258.
1991. *"Franklin Roosevelt, His Administration, and the Communications Act of l934." In Media Voices: An Historical Perspective. Edited by Jean Folkerts. New York: Macmillan, pp. 334-352.
1989. "Media Made Sport: A History of Sports Coverage in the United
States." In Media, Sports, and Society: Research on the Communication
of Sport. Edited by Lawrence A. Wenner. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications,
Inc., pp. 49-69.
SELECTED REVIEWS: Journalism Quarterly 67 (Summer 1990): pp. 437-438. By Eric Rothenbuhler.
1988. "Constant Retreat: The American Civil Liberties Union and the Debate Over the Meaning of Free Speech for Radio Broadcasting in the 1930s." In Free Speech Yearbook, Volume 26. Edited by Stephen A. Smith. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 40-59.