Rachel Coen

Rachel Coen-- formerly a media analyst and communications coordinator with FAIR-- is a freelance writer and law student. Among other duties while at FAIR, she organized FAIR's series of Monthly Media Talks. Previously, she directed marketing and publicity at Common Courage Press. She graduated from Oberlin College and has studied at Charles University in Prague.

Coen has been interviewed by a wide range of media outlets, including NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, Agence France Presse, TV Asahi and the BBC. She is a contributor to the book Democratizing the Global Economy (Common Courage Press, 2001).

Extra! articles:

• The Stossel Treatment(3-4/03)
• John Ashcroft Needs Help: Attorney general seeks media's aid in selling Patriot Act, (with Peter Hart, 8/03)
• Brushing Aside the Pentagon's "Accidents": U.S. media minimized, sanitized Iraq war's civilian toll (with Peter Hart, 5-6/03)
• Fear & Favor 2002 -- The Third Annual Report: How power shapes the news (with Janine Jackson & Peter Hart, 3-4/03)
• The FCC: Asking the wrong questions (with Peter Hart, 2/03)
• Connie Chung: Skeptical of skepticism (with Jim Naureckas, 12/02)
• The FTAA Is None of Your Business: Media look away as democracy is traded away (01-02/03)
• Another Day, Another Mass Arrest: Media unfazed by erosion of right to assemble (11-12/02)
• Euphemisms for Israeli Settlments Confuse Coverage (8/02)
• Spotlighting (Some) Venezuela Killings: Deaths during pro-Chavez protests don't interest the New York Times (7-8/02)
• U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move (6/02)
• "Retaliation" Is Reserved for One Side: A loaded term in the Mideast conflict (with Peter Hart, 5-6/02)
• Behind the Pentagon's Propaganda Plan (4/02)
• Last Media Ownership Limits Threatened by Judicial Action (with Peter Hart, 4/02)
• New York Times Buries Story of Airstrikes on Civilians (2/02)
• See No Evil: PR war, not death toll, is nightly newscasts' focus (1-2/02)
• Hail to the Chief: Newsweek's exclusive interview with the glorious leader (1-2/02)
• Are You a Terrorist? Media passivity enables rollback of civil liberties (11-12/01)
• Free Trade = Freedom: FTAA coverage spins pro-business as pro-democracy (7-8/01)
• Rare, Not Well-Done: U.S. coverage of climate change talks (3-4/01)
• Free Speech Since Seattle: Law enforcement's attacks on activists-- and journalists-- increasing (11-12/00)
• Propaganda or Patriotism? The media, the military and the ICTY (9-10/00)
• For Press, Magenta Hair and Nose Rings Defined Anti-IMF Protests (7-8/00)
• Whitewash in Washington: Media provide cover as police militarize D.C. (7-8/00)
• After the "Humanitarian War": TV learns to accept ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (11-12/99)
• Lessons of War: Leading Papers Call for More Attacks on Civilian Targets Next Time (8/99)