John Stauber

John Stauber is an investigative writer, public speaker, and democracy activist as well as the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy. He has worked with many citizen advocacy and public interest groups and, in 1993, launched PR Watch. Stauber lives and works in Madison, Wis., and has been featured, interviewed for, or quoted in practically all the major print and broadcast media. His recent books, in collaboration with Sheldon Rampton, include Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (Jeremy P. Larcher/Penguin, 2003) and Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry (Common Courage Press, 1995).