B. 1953
Investigative 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)