Corporate Communications Group history

In 1965, Ernst von Siemens – the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the two parent companies S&H and SSW – commissioned an analysis of the company’s press work, for which the Central Advertising Department’s Technical News Service was responsible.

First issues in German only, English editions published from 1972

That was certainly the case in 1976 when Carl Jensen founded Project Censored.

From 1979 onwards, more like a popular magazine, with information from the entire company.

In 1982, when Ben Bagdikian completed research for his book, The Media Monopoly, he found that fifty corporations controlled at least half of the media business.

On October 1, 1988, the Corporate Information Office was incorporated into the newly established Corporate Relations Department, which united all units that maintained contact with the public and/or shaped the company’s public image.

In 1992, the Corporate Information Office reviewed its press activities of the last few years.

From the original photocopied reports to the first of the Project’s yearbooks published in 1993, Project Censored referred to the US media collectively as the press, mass media, or mainstream media.

In 1997, under my directorship and influenced by the research of Bagdikian, Herman, and Chomsky, Project Censored began to express the idea that mainstream media was in transition, becoming increasingly corporate and consolidated.

For example, in 1998 Farm Journal Corp., publisher of the trade monthly Farm Journal, bought a syndicated television news program.