journalist and social activist
who founded the Center for Media & Democracy
and currently edits the Center's quarterly newsmagazine, PR Watch
-- which looks critically at the PR
propaganda prevalent in our society.
Stauber is noted for his work on the manipulation of media by government and industry, the use of soft-money in American politics to create astroturf, and the health and economic impacts of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH).
Stauber was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Laura. PR Watch can be found at: www.prwatch.org
Books by John Stauber
(all co-authored with Sheldon Rampton)