Andy Lee Roth

Andy Lee Roth is associate director of Project Censored, where he partners with Steve Macek to coordinate the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. He is the coeditor of State of the Free Press 2022.

Latest from Andy Lee Roth

Op-Ed

Economy & Labor

Corporate Media Largely Ignore Labor Issues. Let’s Make Them Visible.

For years, the establishment press has utterly ignored workers and news about labor issues. Change is long overdue.

by: Steve Macek &; Andy Lee Roth,; Truthout

January 17, 2022

Op-Ed

Culture & Media

Corporate Media Harms Not Only Through Omission, But Also by Distortion

A look at how the corporate media marginalized or distorted some of the most important news stories of 2020-2021.

by: Andy Lee Roth &; Steve Macek,; Truthout

November 15, 2021

Op-Ed

LGBTQ Rights

Corporate Media Biases Threaten the Passage of Landmark LGBTQ Protections

Corporate media have marginalized the Equality Act, while social media platforms have spread disinformation about it.

by: Avram Anderson &; Andy Lee Roth,; Truthout

March 27, 2021

Op-Ed

Culture & Media

Corporate Fact-Checking Services Shouldn’t Be Our Defense Against “Fake News”

Independent journalism and critical media literacy provide protections where corporate-sponsored fact checkers fail.

by: Andy Lee Roth &; Mickey Huff,; Truthout

December 18, 2020

News Analysis

Culture & Media

It’s True That Corporate Media Is Biased — But Not in the Ways Right-Wingers Say

To confront corporate media’s profit-driven logic, we must encourage close criticism but not all-out dismissal.

by: Steve Macek &; Andy Lee Roth,; Truthout

November 27, 2020

Op-Ed

The Last Gift of Eduardo Galeano: Stories of History for the Sake of the Future

The Uruguayan journalist and historian authored more than 40 books, but his legacy will live on in our cultural imagination.

by: Andy Lee Roth,; YES! Magazine

October 17, 2015