Abby Martin Biography
Abby Martin is a journalist, TV host, and activist from the United States. She was a founding member of the citizen journalism website Media Roots and currently serves on the board of directors of the Media Freedom Foundation, which oversees Project Censored. Martin co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) and starred in the documentary Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013).
How old is Abby Martin? – Age
She is 38 years old as of 6 September 2022. He was born in 1984 in Oakland, California, United States. His real name is Abigail Suzanne Martin.
Abby Martin Family – Education
Martin grew up in Pleasanton, California, and graduated from Amador Valley High School in 2002. She grew interested in journalism after her former high school boyfriend enlisted in the military following the September 11, 2001 attacks. By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University, she was doubting the media’s “selling” of the Iraq War. She majored in political science and minored in Spanish as an undergraduate.
Abby Martin Husband
Martin is married to her Empire Files co-producer, Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner. On May 31, 2020, Martin will give birth to their first child. They are expecting their second child on January 29, 2023.
Abby Martin Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Abby Martin Breaking the Set
Martin held her own show, Breaking the Set, on RT America from 2012 until 2015. The show promoted itself as “a show that cuts through the establishment’s false left/right paradigm and reports the hard facts.” The original opening credits show Martin smashing a television set tuned to CNN with a sledgehammer.
Martin hosted the RT show Breaking the Set, which promoted conspiracy theories such the allegation that water fluoridation was a government effort to poison unsuspecting Americans. She rose to prominence in 2014 after criticizing RT’s coverage of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Crimea. RT published a statement emphasizing that it does not bully its journalists and that they are allowed to speak their own views.
Martin denied the offer to take her to Crimea, stating that she would not go despite RT’s announcement. According to the New York Times, RT informed Martin that her comments about Ukraine were “not in line with our editorial policy.”
Martin departed RT in February 2015, and Anna Belkina took her as a spokesperson. Martin referred to the allegations of foreign control over her and Tulsi Gabbard as “neo-McCarthyist hysteria” typical of the New Cold War. She, like other American RT journalists including Chris Hedges and Lee Camp, stated that she had “complete editorial control” over her RT show.
Abby Martin Empire Files
Martin launched the documentary and interview series The Empire Files in September 2015. She has facilitated visitors including Chris Fences, Noam Chomsky, Richard D. Wolff, Ralph Nader, and Jill Stein.
Telesur English, a Venezuelan media outlet primarily funded by the government, served as the show’s original host. Writing for AlterNet, Martin informed Ben Norton: Telesur has nothing at all to do with the show. We merely market the content to them; they have zero commands over anything we do”. According to a press release that was published on Martin’s Media Roots website in 2018, Telesur stopped providing funding to The Empire Files as a result of the expanding sanctions imposed by the United States on Venezuela. The enactment of sanctions by the United States against Venezuela prevented Martin, her co-producer and husband Michael Prysner, and other Telesur contract journalists from receiving funding. Scholastic Stuart Davis refers to the dropping to act as an illustration of how US sanctions hamper public financing of media creation in Venezuela.
In order to continue production, the show switched to a donation model in August 2018. Since then, the show has only been a web series, and episodes are put on Martin’s website, YouTube, and Vimeo. Delivered in May 2019, her element film narrative, The Domain Records: The Gaza–Israel conflict is the subject of Gaza Fights for Freedom. Independent theaters showed it in the US, UK, and Australia. The film was made available for free on YouTube by Martin in May 2021.
Abby Martin Political Views
Martin was described as a “unfiltered” media representative for the Millennial age who reports on “stories that deserve public recognition” by Millennial Magazine. According to journalist Michael C. Moynihan, “Martin’s politics are odious and frequently incoherent” for claiming to lament “lost American freedom” while ignoring the Russian government’s multiple brutalities prior to its invasion of Crimea and her defense of Hugo Chávez against the charge of tyranny.
Abby Martin Books
♦ 2011 – Framing the Messengers: Junk Food News and News Abuse for Dummies. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored ♦ ♦ 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press.
♦ 2011 – Media Democracy in Action. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. .
♦ 2015 – The Unheard Story of Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater, White Militias & Community Empowerment: An interview with scott crow and Malik Rahim. In scott crow (Ed.) Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader. GTK Press.
♦ 2018 – Project Censored. Foreword by Abby Martin.
