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'''John Stauber''' is retired after four decades as an [http://www.linkedin.com/profilein/view?id=69858007&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro johnstauber organizer], [http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/the-progressive-movement-is-a-pr-front-for-rich-democrats/ investigative writer], [httphttps://kboowww.youtube.fmcom/node/54510 watch?v=7qAEaSIubAs public speaker], and co-author of [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books six books]. He founded the [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/finances.html Center for Media and Democracy] (CMD) and [https://www.prwatch.org/content/pr-watch-archives PRWatch] in 1993 to create the only public interest and journalism organization dedicated to exposing organized corporate and government [[propaganda]] and its impacts on democracy, public information and democratic social change.<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/57070024/The-Propaganda-Model The Propaganda Model: a retrospective], Journalism Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, 2000, pp. 101–112, Edward S. Herman, University of Pennsylvania, USA</ref>

Stauber served for sixteen years as CMD's Executive Director, fundraiser and on its board of directors, retiring from it in July, 2009.He is a contributor to the US magazine and website [http://www.counterpunch.org/author/639h78y111/ Counterpunch]. ==Current Advisory Boards==*Advisory Board, [[Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund]] <ref>Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund [https://celdf.org/about/board-staff/ Board], organizational web page, accessed October 7 2017.</ref>* [[Fluoride Action Network]] <ref>Fluoride Action Network [http://fluoridealert.org/about/team/ Team], organizational web page, accessed May 11, 2014.</ref>* [https://www.organicconsumers.org/staff Organic Consumers Association]

'''* TWITTER [https://twitter.com/thejohnstauber *JohnStauber @JohnStauber]'''

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In 1995 Stauber's [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html first book], primarily an exposé of the dark side of 20th century propaganda, also [http://www.ejnet.org/sludge/sludge.html exposed the ongoing PR scam] of renaming [[sewage sludge]] with the Orwellian term "[[biosolids]]" and dumping it on farms and gardens. <ref>[http://www.ejnet.org/sludge/sludge.html The Sludge Hits the Fan], chapter from Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!, 1995, Common Courage Press.</ref> Stauber co-authored six books for CMD beginning with 1995's ''Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!'' <ref>[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html CMD Website Accessed June 24, 2010.]</ref> and including the 2003 ''New York Times'' best seller ''Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq'' <ref>[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/wmd.html CMD website accessed March 22, 2011.]</ref>

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*[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html '''Toxic Sludge Is Good For You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry''']

*[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html '''Mad Cow U.S.A.''']

*[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html '''Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future''']

*[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/wmd.html '''Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq''']

*[httphttps://www.prwatch.org/books/tbwe '''The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq''']

* John Stauber, [http://www.kboo.fmorg/nodeblog/54510 2826 Illahee Lecture: Who Owns The Media?], Portland, OR, March 19, 2013.

* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/07/9243/chez-sludge-how-sewage-sludge-industry-bedded-alice-waters Chez Sludge: How the [[Sewage Sludge]] Industry Bedded Alice Waters], PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/9005 ACSH Makes Alice Waters a Poster Child for Toxic Sludge], PRWatch.org, April 12, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8986 Chef Alice Waters and Chez Panisse in a Toxic Sludge Protest], PRWatch.org, March 31, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8949 Waiter, There Is Toxic Sludge in my Organic Soup!], PRWatch.org, March 16, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8841 Tea Party Money-Bomb Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up Obamacare], January 19, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8829 Where's the Outrage Over Obama's Health Care Propagandist, Jonathan Gruber?], January 14, 2010.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8350 Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for Real Change], April 27, 2009.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8297 How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement], March 27, 2009.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8272 Obama and HCAN Marginalize Single Payer Health Care Reform], March 17, 2009.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/8230 Take This Job and Love It], February 23, 2009.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/7785 Winter Soldier], September 23, 2008.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/7523 Stauber Interviews Sirota], July 8, 2008.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/7299 Pentagon's Propaganda Documents Go Online], May 6, 2008.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/7241 Imbedding Military Propagandists into the News Media], April 22, 2008.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/6368 Iraq, the 'Gift' That Keeps on Bleeding], August 20, 2007.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/6321 Coffee with the Troops Fuels Debate and Netroots and the War], August 6, 2007.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/6081 Democratic Spin Won't End the War in Iraq], May 24, 2007.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/5865 Iraq: Why Won't MoveOn Move Forward?], March 18, 2007* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/5724 A Victory for Press Freedom in the Ehren Watada Court Martial], February 4, 2007.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/5685 Defend the Press and Sarah Olson], January 27, 2007.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/5067 Half of Americans Still Believe in WMDs, They Saw Them on TV], August 8, 2006.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/4954 John Rendon's Long Strange Trip in the Terror Wars], July 10, 2006.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/4883 US "Atypical" Mad Cow Threat Was Predicted], June 14, 2006.* John Stauber, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/3808 Oprah Not "The Only Mad Cow In America," Thanks to Texas Governor Perry], June 30, 2005

* Rebekah Wilce, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/06/12144/chronic-wasting-disease-rise-wisconsin-deer-will-it-infect-humans Chronic Wasting Disease on the Rise in Wisconsin Deer; Will it Infect Humans?], PRWatch.org, June 13, 2013.

* Sara Jerving, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11273/new-toxic-sludge-pr-and-lobbying-effort-gets-underway New Toxic Sludge PR and Lobbying Effort Gets Underway], PRWatch, March 16, 2012.

You can view online scores of blogs Stauber [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/user/4/track wrote for PR Watch] from 2004 to 2009.

You can view online video interviews with Stauber including [http://www.bbc5.tv/eyeplayer/video/public-relations-watch a 2004 GNN.TV piece] and a [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/node/5297 September 2006 interview] during a book speaking tour.

In 2007 Stauber organized the [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/defendthepress/index.html Defend the Press] campaign which won a major free speech victory against the Bush Administration's efforts to intimidate journalists reporting on dissent in the military.