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Walter M. Brasch PhD. is a social issues journalist and university professor of journalism. He is the author of a biweekly syndicate newspaper column and the author of 17 books.

He is an award winning former newspaper editor in California, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio.

He is author of several dozens of magazine articles, and 50 multimedia productions. His article and columns are read readily in Counter Punch, Counter Bias Smirking Chimp, Op Ed News, Liberal Opinion Weekly, American reporter, Atlantic Free Press Baltimore Chronicle, Bush Watch, Dissident Voice, Online Opinion, Radical Philosophy, Scoop, The Dubya Report, Trumpet America, and dozens of other major internet websites, as well as about 40 print newspapers.

His books mostly focus upon the fusion of historical and contemporary social issues. These books include: America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights (2005); The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina (2006); Sex and the Single Beer Can (2004); Black English and the Mass Media (1981); Forerunners of Revolution: Muckrakers and the American Social Conscience (1991); With Just Cause: The Unionization of the American Journalist (1991); Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris (2000); and The Joy of Sax: America During the Bill Clinton Era (2001). He is co-author of Social Foundations of the Mass Media (2001) and The Press and the State (1986), and was awarded Outstanding Academic Book distinction by Choice magazine, published by the American Library Association.

During the past two decades he has won more than 100 national and media awards from associations such as: National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Society of Professional Journalists, National Federation of Press Women, Pennsylvania Press Club, Pennsylvania Women's Press Association, Pennwriters, International Association of Business Communicators, Pacific Coast Press Club, and Press Club of Southern California.

He is active in emergency management, and was a governor-appointee on the Local Emergency Planning Committee.

He is not only a co-recipient of the Civil Liberties Award of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1996, but was also honored by San Diego State University as a Points of Excellence winner in 1997. At Bloomsburg University, he earned the Creative Arts Award, the Creative Teaching Award, and was named an Outstanding Student Advisor. He was the first recipient of the Dean's award of excellence at Bloomsburg University. For the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, he was a Commonwealth Speaker. In 2004 he was the faculty recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award.

He has been involved in the farm workers strike of the early and mid 1960s, in anti war protests during the Vietnam and both Gulf wars, is an ardent animal rights activist, and active in numerous social justice issues.

Among other organizations he is active in the Leonard Peltier defense fund and the preservation of wild horses and burros. He is editor in chief of Spectrum Magazine, a publication produced by journalism students at Bloomsburg University and which has won several national awards.

He is currently president of the Pennsylvania Press Club, and was previously president of the Keystone State professional chapter and deputy regional director of the Society of Professional Journalists, from which he received the Director's Award and the National Freedom of Information Award. He is the founding coordinator of Pennsylvania Journalism Educators. He is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Author's Guild, National Writers Union (UAW/AFL-CIO), and The Newspaper Guild (CWA/AFL-CIO). He is listed in: Who's Who in America, Contemporary Authors, and Who's Who in the Media.

Dr. Brasch earned an A.B. in sociology from San Diego State College, an M.A. in journalism from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. in mass communication/ journalism, with a cognate area in language and culture studies, from Ohio University.