2002. David Barsamian, The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, second edition (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2002). In Monthly Review, December.

1998. Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). In Journal of Communication, Vol. 48, No. 1, Winter: pp. 133-136.

1997. Ralph Engelman, Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage, 1996). In American Journalism, Vol. 14, No. 3-4, Summer-Fall, pp. 549-550.

1995. Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Propaganda in the U.S. and Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995). In "Worth Reading," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Vol. 12, No. 4 (December): pp. 479-481.

1995. Ben H. Bagdikian, Double Vision: A Journalist's Perspective on his Life and his Profession (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995). In The Progressive 59 (8) (August): p. 44.

1995. Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994). In Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 1 (June): p. 309.

1994. John Carver Edwards, Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1991). In American Historical Review, December, p. 1778.

1994. Michael Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). In Journalism History, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter: p. 137.

1994. Robert K. Avery, editor, Public Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment: The History and Survival of an Ideal (New York: Longman, 1993). In Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol. 38, No. 1, Winter: pp. 118-120.

1994. James A. Hijiya, Lee De Forest and the Fatherhood of Radio (Cranberry, NJ: Lehigh University Press, 1992). In Journal of American History, Vol. 81, No. 1, June 1994: p. 310.

1993. Joel Spring, Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio, and Television (Albany: State University of New York Press, l992). In History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, Fall: pp. 463-464. See also, "A Reply to Joel Spring," History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 1994): pp. 274-276.

1992. John Keane, Media and Democracy (New York: Blackwell, l991). In Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 4, Winter: pp. 1077-1978.

1992. W. Lance Bennett, The Governing Crisis: Media, Money, and Marketing in American Elections (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992). In Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Autumn: pp. 762-764.

1991. Nicholas Garnham, Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information (London: Sage, l990). In Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter: pp. 872-873.

1993. Co-author, research paper leading to chapter nine ("Cold War Goals in American Foreign Policy: Nicaragua and the World) in Matthew S. Hirshberg, Perpetuating Patriotic Perceptions: The Cognitive Function of the Cold War (Westport, Conn.: Praeger): pp. 181-187.

2005. “Universities, Media, and the Crisis of Civic Engagement.” Memorandum prepared for Chancellor Richard Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 7 June.

2005. “The Battle for Public Broadcasting & Media Reform.” Memorandum prepared for Bill Moyers to present to Board of Schumann Foundation, 22 May.

2004. “Media Policy Activism: Prospects for Reform.” White Paper prepared for Center for American Progress, October.

2003. “Democratizing the Media,” In The Washington and London Forums: Alternatives to American Foreign and Domestic Policy Since September 11. Published by the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation.

2003. “The Case for Public Broadcasting, and Implications for Philanthropists,” memorandum commissioned by PBS president Pat Mitchell, May.

2002. "Thoughts on Radio Reform Legislation," memorandum prepared for Sen. Russell J. Feingold, 18 July.

2002. "Thoughts on the 2004 Presidential Campaign," memoranda prepared for Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, July-August.

2002. "Theses on Media Deregulation," paper prepared for Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, for case prepared opposing further deregulation of British media, July.

2002. "Control of the Means of Information Distribution," paper prepared for CRIS working group, in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), May.

2002. "Media and Democracy," speech prepared for Rep. Bernie Sanders (Ind., Vermont) to read on the floor of the House of Representatives, February.

2002. Robert W. McChesney & Mark Crispin Miller, "The Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press," paper provided to Consumer Federation of America for case it prepared against deregulating media ownership before the Federal Communications Commission, February.

2000. "Where do we go from here?" Memorandum prepared for Ralph Nader on his role as a presidential candidate in the future, 1 December.

2000. "Memorandum to President Clinton from Professor Robert W. McChesney Concerning Media and Communication Policy," solicited by the White House Office of Communication, 21 January.

1998. "Memo on Media Antitrust Prospects." Report on January 1998 media antitrust conference submitted to selected participants.

1997. "Main Issues in Global Communication in the Digital Age." Report submitted to Soros Foundation for prospective conference on global communication issues.

1997. "Letter to FCC Concerning Proposed Sale of WQEX to Cornerstone Communications." Statement written in support of "Save Pittsburgh Public TV" in hearings before the FCC, June.

1996. "Declaration of Robert W. McChesney to the Federal Communications Commission In Support of Multiple-Channel Public Broadcasting." Statement written in support of Pittsburgh public television station WQEX in hearing before FCC, July.

1996. "Philanthropy Must Answer the Market's Attack on Journalism." Paper distributed to selected foundations and philanthropies.

1995. "Philanthropic Funding of Nonprofit Journalism and Media," Memorandum written of behalf of In These Times to encourage philanthropic support of its activities, used in mass mailing, May.

2008- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Miller-McCune

2007- Member, Editorial Board, Communication, Culture & Critque

2006- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Democratic Communiqué

2006- Member, Editorial Board, Journalism Practice

2006- Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Communication

2005- Member, Advisory Board, Global Media Journal

2004- Member, Editorial Board, Media Development

2004- 2005. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Communication

2004- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of E-Media Studies

2004- Member, Editorial Board, Global Media and Communication

2003- Member, Editorial Board, European Journal of Communication

2003- Member, Editorial Board, FightingBob.com

2003- Contributing Editor, In These Times

2002- Member, Editorial Board, Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs.

2001- Co-Editor, Monthly Review

2001- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The New Press

2001- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Telematics and Informatics

2000 Acting Editor (with John Bellamy Foster), Monthly Review

1999- Member, Editorial Board, The Communication Review

1999- Member, Editorial Board, Journalism Studies,

1999- Corresponding Editor, European Journal of Communication

1999- Member, Core Editorial Board, Global Media - Global Culture,

1997- Member, Editorial Board, Mass Comm Review

1997- Member, Editorial Board, Web Journal of Mass Communication Research,

1997-. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Communication,

1996-1998. Special issue editor, with John Bellamy Foster and Ellen Meiksins Wood, Capitalism and the Information Age, special double issue of Monthly Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (July-August 1996).

Series Co-Editor (with John C. Nerone), "History of Communication," University of Illinois Press, 1994-.

Books in series:

David Welky, Everything was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression. 2008.
Dale Zacher, The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914-1918. 2008.
Deepa Kumar, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike. 2006.
Mark Lloyd, Prologue to a Farce: Democracy and Communication in America. 2007.
Jill Hills, Telecommunications and Empire. 2007.
Daniel C. S. Stoltzfus, Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment, 2007.
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio. 2006.
Inger L. Stole, Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. 2006.
Michelle Tusan, Women Making News: Gender and the Women's Periodical Press in Britain.
Laura Stein, Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media.
Chad Raphael, Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary. 2005.
David S. Allen, Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere.
Mary Elizabeth Tusan, Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. 2005.
Randall P. Bezanson, How Free Can the Press Be?
Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James, Cultural Politics and Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices. 2004.
Matthew C. Ehrlich, Journalism in the Movies. 2004.
Rick Rockwell & Noreen Janus, Media Power in Central America. 2003
Lorman A. Ratner & Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. 2003.
Michael Dawson, The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life. 2003. Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check. (First published in 1919).
Doug Underwood, From Yahweh to Yahoo: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press, 2002.
David Paul Nord, Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers, 2001.
Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, 1999.
John M. Coward, The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, forthcoming.
Yuezhi Zhao, Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line, 1998.
Andrew Rojecki, Silencing the Opposition: Anti-Nuclear Movements and The Media in the Cold War, forthcoming.
Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt, Eds., Visual Representation and History: Essays on Media and Photographic Evidence, 1999.
James Danky and Wayne Wiegand, Eds., Print Culture in a Diverse America. 1999.
Michael Dawson, The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing and the Frustration of Personal Life in the United States Since 1945, forthcoming.
Allen M. Ruff, "We Called Each Other Comrade!" Charles Kerr and the Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers, 1886-1928. 1997.
Gerald J. Baldasty, The E. W. Scripps Newspaper Chain. 1998.
Nathan Godfried, The Rise and Fall of Labor Radio: Labor's Radio Station, WCFL, 1926-1978. 1997.
Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Popular Sovereignty. 1997. (First published in Australia by the University of New South Wales Press in 1995.)
John C. Nerone, et. al., Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press. 1995.
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960. 1994.