Project Censored specializes in covering the top news stories which were either ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of nearly 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who review about 1,000 news story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and most major book stores.
1. White House Erodes Open Government 2. Media Coverage on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death Toll 3. Distorted Election Coverage 4. Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In 5. U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia 6. The Real Oil for Food Scam 7. Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood 8. Iraqi Farmers Threatened By US Mandates 9. Iran's New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency 10. Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy
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Each news summary is created according to strict standards. Here's how we do it.
Each summary is created using a consistent editorial procedure. The target length is approximately 16 lines of 11-point Arial text in a 650-pixel-wide column. Up to 25% of a summary may be set in bold to emphasize the most important ideas. Summaries are composed of verbatim excerpts presented in the same sequence as they appear in the original news source, with very minor editorial additions. Where material has been omitted between excerpts, the omission is indicated with ellipses (...). Any words added by an editor for clarity or context appear in [brackets]. Our original news editor was Fred Burks. Tod Fletcher edited most summaries from 2007 through 2014, and Mark Bailey has served as news editor since 2014.