David Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine and he lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire; and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting; The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy; and Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine. The Institute for Alternative Journalism has named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes" and he has recieved the ACLU'sUpton Sinclair Award for independent journalism in 2003.