Robin Andersen

Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University. She is an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her most recent book is The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. Andersen’s work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), where she also writes regularly, and is an Izzy Award Judge for the Park Center for Independent Media. Her writing has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, The Progressive, Salon, Common Dreams, and ScheerPost, among others.

The Democrats’ 2024 “Autopsy” and the Party’s Refusal to Halt Weapons to Israel

Balancing Act at the NYT: Nicholas Kristof’s Wrote About Israel’s Sexual Torture of Prisoners, the Next Day Isabel Kershner Penned More Unverified Rape Allegations Against Hamas  

Sail On, Sail On, Oh Mighty Ship of State

Francesca Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran

Bystander Footage in Minneapolis and Bearing Witness in Gaza

How Zohran Mamdani’s Video Team Reinvented the Visual Art of Political Conversation and Storytelling

Humanity’s Fight Against the Perpetrators of Starvation and Extermination  

Palestinian First Responders and the Unbearable Sadness of Genocide

How the Establishment Press Bolster Genocide: News Abuse in Corporate News Coverage of Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Investigating the New York Times “Investigation” of Hamas Mass Rape 

How Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2024 

After 20 Years of Failed War, Corporate Media Still Give Wars of Empire a Pass