Interviews and Profiles

2009

"A Minute With... Robert McChesney, expert on media economics and reform," University of Illinois website, 30 March.
"Robert McChesney on the Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," Democracy Now, 27 March.
"Amid the Rubble, Hope for Journalism is Stirring," Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times, 27 March.

2008

"Your Free Internet is in Danger," Micha Odenheimer, Eretz Acheret (Israel), issue no. 45, May-June.
"Bob McChesney Discusses Online Journalism and the Cap Times," Marc Eisen, Isthmus Daily Page, 24 April.

2007

"The Fast Lane and the Dirt Path: Corporate Media, Democracy and the FCC," Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Monitor, 5 November.
"News Media Revolt: Canada Next: Activist Scholar McChesney Rallies Growing Movement," Tom Barrett, The Tyee, 29 October.
Professor: Communication system at critical juncture, time for action is now," Craig Chamberlain, University of Illinois website, 15 October.

2006

"Professor Labeled a Dangerous Academic," Paul Wood, The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana), 23 March.

2005

"'Tragedy and Farce' Book Blames Government for Media Crisis," Frazier Moore, Associated Press, 9 December. (appeared in more than 50 daily newspapers.)
"Robert W. McChesney interviewed by David Brancaccio," on NOW. 5 August.

"No News, Good News: Talking with Media Agitator Robert McChesney about Propaganda, PBS, and punditry," Joseph McCombs, Village Voice online, 13 July.
"Media Studies for the Hell of It: Second Thoughts on McChesney and Fiske," Aniko Bodroghkozy, Flow, 27 May.
"Robert W. McChesney is Working to Reclaim Our Free Press: A BuzzFlash Interview," BuzzFlash, 28 April.

2004

"The Problem of the Media," Anthony Ha, MotherJones.com, 4 October.
"The Problem of the Media: An Interview with Robert McChesney," Brian K. Mahoney, Chronogram, July, pp. 16-23.

2002

“Interview with Professor Robert McChesney,” Jared Ball, Organized C.O.U.P, September.
“Let Them Eat Cake,” Telephony, 2 September, p. 32.
“Richer Media, Poorer Democracy,” John K. Wilson, The Indy, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, April.
“Deregulation’s big lie,” Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com, 16 July.
“McChesney Challenges Listeners to be Critical Media Consumers,” Patterns, June.
“Wally Bowen interviews Robert McChesney,” MAIN website, 6 May.
“Making Music: These Days Becoming a Pop Star Takes More than talent and Good Looks,” Drew Ringo, pbskids.org, 14 April.
“Thinking Outside the Vox (Populi): An Interview with Outspoken Media Critic Robert McChesney,” Brian Sarzynski, mountainx.com, Vol. 8, No. 23, 27 March.
“Robert McChesney on the FCC and Media Mergers,” Scott Harris, Between the Lines, Independent Media Center, 12 March.
“Bob McChesney Interview About Media Consolidation and Lee Publishing,” Kristian Knudsen, Madison Independent Media Center, 20 February.

2001

“The US Media and World War III: Robert McChesney Speaks,” Matthew Berliant, Confluence, Winter. Vol. 7, No. 5.
“Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism,” Adbusters, No. 36, November-December.
“La convergence des cartels,” Ivan Briscoe, Le Courrier de UNESCO, October, p. 46.
“Nattering Networks, How Mass Media fail Democracy: An Interview with Bob McChesney,” Jessica Clark, LiP Magazine, 24 September.
“The Media Go to War: An Interview with Robert McChesney,” John Tarleton and Mary Ann Thompson, The Indypendent (New York, New York), 13 September.
“Medieforskaren Robert McChesney:’medierna passiviserar medborgarna’.” Par Jansson, Journalisten (Sweden), 15 May.
“Rich and Poor: Corporate Media are a Danger to Democracy,” Durga Rahunath, Bloomington Independent, 19 April.
“Interview: Robert McChesney,” Frontline website, 27 February.

2000

“Pluralidad de opiniones en Internet o una inocente ilucion?” Josef Katzrincker, baquia.com. 27 November.
"Wall Street gibt den Ton an Robert McChesney uber die US-Medien und die Wahl," Ingid Scheithauer, Frankfurter Rundschau, 15 November, p. 25.
"How the Internet is Affecting Politics: An Interview with Robert McChesney," CIO.com, 23 October.
"Rich Media, Poor Democracy: An interview with Robert McChesney," Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian.com, 20 September.
"Free Press For Sale, How Corporations Have Bought the First Amendment: An Interview with Robert McChesney," Derrick Jensen, The Sun, September, pp. 4-13.
"Moving the Media Revolution Forward: Interview with Robert W. McChesney," Sheri Herndon, Independent Media Center-Seattle, 28 August.
“Robert McChesney: Can Democracy Survive Media Mega-Mergers?” Mark Gabrish Conlan, Zenger’s Magazine, June.
"Media Matters: An Interview with Robert McChesney," David Barsamian, Soundstage (The Netherlands), May.
"Rocket Science: Robert McChesney on private power, public power and how corporate media subvert democracy," David Barsamian, mediachannel.org, 15 March.
"Monopolies, NPR, & PBS: An Interview with Robert McChesney," David Barsamian, Z Magazine, February, pp. 40-46.

pre-2000

"Our Dubious Times: Media Giants Bad For Democracy," Lee Nichols, Austin Chronicle, October 1999.
"Chi e Robert W. McChesney," Camilla Lai, Caffe Europa, 23 July 1999.
"Robert W. McChesney: le journalisme n'est plus ce qu'il etait," Nathalie Collard, Le 30, February 1999. [In French]
"The Future of Democratic Media: An Interview with Robert W. McChesney." Corporate Watch Website, 24 October 1997.
"The Global Media: An interview with Edward S. Herman & Robert W. McChesney," David Peterson, Z Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1997: pp. 25-30.