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Hollie Ainbinder, IPA’s director of program and development, has been with the organization since 1999. She was the associate director of the media watch group FAIR from 1988 to 1999. From 1984 to 1988 she was a media consultant to public interest organizations.

Layla Cooper is IPA’s CFO. With a strong background in finance, computer systems and administration, she first began working for IPA in 2002. Cooper has focused her education on the study of media and social change.

Sam Husseini is senior analyst and director of communications for the group. He’s written widely on politics, foreign affairs, public policy, media, and culture. He now writes regularly at husseini.substack.com and has been published regularly in such outlets as Salon, Consortium News, CounterPunch, AntiWar.com, TruthDig and The Nation. He founded The Washington Stakeout and VotePact.org. Email: sam at accuracy.org

Norman Solomon is IPA’s executive director. He is the author of twelve books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, and with Reese Ehrlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. A frequent guest on television and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent documentary Buying the War and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media Education Foundation. Solomon is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language.

David Zupan works as an independent contractor for IPA doing broadcast media outreach and database updating. He is also director of the Speakers’ Clearinghouse, which helps progressive policy analysts find speaking engagements at schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. Zupan is a veteran media activist and teacher.

  • Climate Meeting: “A Coverup of Their Own Irresponsibility”

    “The hypocrisy of rich countries, particularly the U.S., needs to become more of a global scandal, including here in the U.S”, warns director Baasav Sen as COP27 approaches.

  • Indian Government Targets Independent Media Outlet

    “I believe The Wire and the progressive, upstanding, and fearless journalism it exemplifies will emerge stronger thanks to the lessons learned from this serious setback.” N. RAM, [email protected]

  • “Anti-Vaccine Aggression”

    Peter Hotez talked to the Institute for Public Accuracy about how––although deaths more or less halted in highly vaccinated communities after May 1, 2021––in undervaccinated places like Texas and in other parts of the southern U.S. and mountain West states, “the deaths had just begun.” 

  • Nukes in Finland Would Violate NPT: Legal Expert

    The United States positioning its nuclear weapons in Finnish or Polish territories would violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – warns professor of law as Euroweekly reports governments looking to engage in “nuclear sharing”

  • Nuclear Netanyahu

    “Latest exit polls show resounding victory for Netanyahu’s far-right coalition: anywhere from 61 to 62 seats. He will form the most extremist government in Israeli history. This means that his most violent allies, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir will demand ministerial posts

  • Supreme Court Attack on Affirmative Action: The Irony of Clyde Ferguson

    Professor of Law notes the irony of the Supreme Court targeting Harvard’s affirmative action program while the Harvard-based scholar Clyde Ferguson, his mentor, conceived of affirmative action.”

  • Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review “Pouring Gas on the Fire”

    “President Harry Truman, a Democrat, oversaw the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russia and other would-be superpowers have increasingly modeled their own national security policies (and their economies) on the U.S. With festering nuclear flashpoints in Ukraine, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, South Asia, and the Middle East”

  • Latino Adults at Higher Risk of Socioeconomic Impacts from Long Covid

    A statewide survey of Latinos in Colorado has found that nearly one-fourth of Latinos in the state are suffering from long-term Covid symptoms. Advocates say that the next step is to “rethink the definition of disability.”

  • “Huge Disparities in Paxlovid Use”

    New data shows racial and ethnic disparities in outpatient treatment of Covid-19 with Paxlovid: Black patients were prescribed the drug 36 percent less often than white patients, while Hispanic patient use was 30 percent lower compared to non-Hispanic patients.

  • Teach-In on Nuclear Crisis and Lessons from Past Crises

    “The world is again on the verge of nuclear war”, says expert Steinbach who is organizing an online teach-in tonight at 7 p.m. ET on the current nuclear crisis featuring several nuclear experts.

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