Political Economy of Communication (ICR 468)
Critical Studies in Communication Research (ICR 490)
Communication Theory and the Internet (ICR 490)
Political Economy of Global Communication (ICR 490)

Social Aspects of Information Systems (Comm/LIS 202)
Economic Structure of Communication (Comm 264)

Introduction to Mass Communications (J201)
Principles of Advertising (J246)
Mass Media and the Consumer / Advertising and Society (J446)

Political Economy of Global Communication (J675) (J912)
Political Economy of the Mass Media (J675)
History of U.S. Broadcast Regulation (J675)
Mass Communication and Society (J561)
Free Press Theory: Mainstream and Critical (J675)
Media, Inequality, and Democracy (J675)
Critical Theory in Mass Communication Research (J912)
U.S. Broadcasting History (J912)
International Broadcasting History (J951)
Critical and Cultural Studies of Mass Communication (J839)

Newswriting (J203)
Advertising Copywriting and Layout (J450)

7 April: John Nichols, Washington correspondent, The Nation magazine
14 April: Greg Palast, journalist, author, The Best Government Money Can Buy
21 April: Janine Jackson, Program Director, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
28 April: Mark Crispin Miller, author, The Bush Dyslexicon, and media critic
5 May: Naomi Klein, journalist and author, No Logo
12 May: Trudy Lieberman, journalist and author, and Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist, author
19 May: Jim Hightower, author and activist
26 May: Kristina Borjesson, journalist and author & Gary Webb, investigative journalist
2 June: Yuezhi Zhao, expert on China media and telecommunications and Dan Schiller, UI professor
9 June: Sascha Meinrath & Danielle Chynoweth, Urbana Independent Media Center
16 June: John Stauber, co-author, Trust Us, WeÕre Experts
23 June: Larry Williams, Phil Strang & Holy Rushakoff on the local music scene
30 June: Bruce Williams & Michael Della Carpini, authors, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down
7 July: Frank Emspak, labor radio activist and John Nichols, national correspondent, The Nation
14 July: Sut Jhally, Director, Media Education Foundation
21 July: Carrie McLaren, editor, Stay Free & Gary Ruskin, director, Commercial Alert
28 July: Walt Harrington & Leon Dash, University of Illinois journalism professors
4 August: Ed Herman, media critic
11 August: Craig Aaron, managing editor, In These Times
18 August: Lawrence Lessig, author of The Future of Ideas
25 August: Nancy Snow, author, Propaganda, Inc.
1 September: Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickeled and Dimed
8 September: Susan Douglas, University of Michigan professor, media critic
15 September: Jeff Chester, Director of the Center for Digital Democracy
22 September: Aliza Dichter & Danny Schechter, managers, mediachannel.org
29 September: Francis Boyle, Univ. of Illinois law professor, expert on international law and military invasions
6 October: Dan Schiller, author, Digital Capitalism
13 October: John Nichols, Washington editor, The Nation
20 October: Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist, author
27 October: Congressional candidates: Tim Johnson, Josh Hartke, Carl Estabrook
3 November: Willis Regier & Joan Catapano, University of Illinois Press
10 November: Tom Frank, author, One Market Under God
17 November: Marc Cooper, contributing editor of The Nation

30 May: John Nichols, National Political Editor, The Progressive; Assistant Editorial Page Editor, The Capital Times.
20 June: Gay Seidman, UW-Madison professor, expert on globalization.
11 July : Stephanie Luce, UW-Madison student activist & Paul Loeb, author of Generation at the Crossroads.
1 August: Norman Solomon, media critic, newspaper columnist, and co-author of Through the Media Looking Glass.
22 August: Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive & Vivek Chibber, political activist and scholar.
15 September: David Barsamian, independent radio producer, journalist and interviewer.
3 October: Barbara Ehrenreich, columnist, author, and political activist.
5 October: Joel Rogers, UW-Madison professor, founder of the New Party.
10 October: Ben Bagdikian, journalist, author of The Media Monopoly.
24 October: John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, authors of Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public
Relations Industry.
14 November: Jim Hightower, radio talk show host, political populist.
30 November: Edward Asner, actor, political activist.
5 December: Adolph Reed, political scientist, columnist for The Progressive.
26 December: John Nichols, National political editor, The Progressive, Assistant editorial page editor, The Capital Times.

16 January: Allen Ruff, Madison activist, member of Hands Off Cuba.
26 February: Norman Solomon, columnist and author & Allen Hunter, Director of UW-Madison Havens Center, coordinator for Progressive Media Project.
18 March: Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation.
8 April: Doug Henwood, editor, Left Business Observer.
29 April: Sara Diamond, analyst of U.S. rightwing and fascist political movements.
20 May: Linda Gordon, UW-Madison history professor, expert on welfare and women's history.
17 June: David Newby, president of Wisconsin chapter, AFL-CIO.
5 August: John Nichols, editorial page writer, Capital Times newspaper.
19 August: Mark Crispin Miller, Media professor and activist.
16 September: Adolph Reed, political activist and journalist.
7 October: John Nichols, editorial page writer, Capital Times newspaper.
21 October: Joel Rogers, UW-Madison professor, founder of the New Party.
4 November: Ruth Conniff, political columnist, assistant editor of The Progressive.
25 November: Ed Garvey, political activist & labor lawyer.
16 December: Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins), nationally syndicated political cartoonist.\
23 December: Alexander Cockburn, political columnist, The Nation magazine.
30 December: Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist and author.

13 January: Robert Parry, investigative journalist.
27 January: Janine Jackson, Research Director, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
10 February: Michael Apple, UW-Madison professor of Education.
24 February: Bill Lueders, news editor, Isthmus, author, Enemy of the State.
10 March: Susan Douglas, media critic, Progressive magazine columnist.
17 March: Allen Ruff, author, We Call Each Other Comrade!.
14 April: Sut Jhally, advertising critic and media activist.
21 April: Margo Robb, WORT-FM news director.
5 May: Laura Flanders, FAIR women's desk director and author, Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting.
19 May: Jane Slaughter, labor journalist.
2 June: John Nichols, editorial page write, Capital Times newspaper.
16 June: Deidre MacFadyen, editor, In These Times & Matthew Rothschild, editor, The Progressive.
23 June: Doug Henwood, editor, Left Business Observer.
30 June: Adolph Reed, columnist, The Progressive.
14 July: John Bellamy Foster, sociologist and environmentalist.
28 July : Joel Rogers, UW-Madison professor and Chair of the New Party.
11 August: Norman Solomon, co-author, Wizards of Media Oz.
25 August: David Newby, president of Wisconsin chapter, AFL-CIO.
8 September: Michael Schumacher, author, There But For Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs
22 September: Jeff Cohen, co-author, The Wizards of Media Oz & executive director of FAIR.
13 October: David Barsamian, host and producer, Alternative Radio.
20 October: Martin Lee, author, The Beast Reawakens.
3 November: Tom Frank, author, The Conquest of Cool.
17 November: John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton, co-authors, Mad Cow U.S.A..
18 December: Doug Henwood, editor, Left Business Observer.

1 January: Sam Husseini, anti-Arab discrimination activist.
15 January: Edward S. Herman, economist and media critic.
29 January: Mark Crispin Miller, Media professor and activist.
19 February: Kim Moody, author, Workers in a Lean World.
26 February: John Nichols, editorial page writer, Capital Times newspaper.
26 March: Ann Simonton, director of Media Watch.
7 May: David Barsamian, Producer, Alternative Radio.
18 June: Jeremy Pikser, co-author, screenplay for Bulworth.
2 July: David Croteau, sociologist, author of study debunking "liberal" bias of U.S. journalists.
16 July: Stanley Kutler, UW-Madison history professor, expert on Nixon and Watergate.
23 July: John Nichols, journalist.
30 July: Vivek Chibber, Marxist scholar & political activist.
27 August: Danny Schechter, TV producer, author of The More You Watch, The Less You Know.
10 September: Matthew Rothschild, editor, The Progressive and John Nichols, journalist.
24 September: Joel Bleifuss, editor, In These Times.
8 October: Michael Albert, editor, Z Magazine.
5 November: Barbara Ehrenreich, writer and political columnist.
10 December: Ed Garvey, 1998 Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin.
31 December: Joel Rogers, UW-Madison professor, founder of the New Party.

11 January: John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton, co-editors, PR Watch.
25 January : John Nichols, political journalist.

See Geoffrey Cowley, "Rocket in orbit," Columbia Journalism Review, November/December l983, p. 18.
See Robert W. McChesney, "The Rocket in 1981: Balancing Things Left of Center," The Rocket, No. 195, December 7-21, 1994, pp. 12, 14.