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Stacy Malkan, Co-founder, Managing Editor

Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor at the nonprofit public health research group U.S. Right to Know, covering public health science and tracking industry lobbying and public relations efforts. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Nature Biotechnology, Investor’s Business Daily, The Ecologist, Huffington Post, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and other outlets. Her 2022 Merchants of Poison report is based on internal corporate documents that reveal how pesticide companies manipulate science and shape public opinion. Stacy has also reported extensively on efforts to expand corporate-led industrial agriculture in Africa.  

Stacy’s 2007 book, “Not Just a Pretty Face, The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry” (New Society Publishers), won a silver medal for health reporting from the Independent Publishers Association. Her work with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has been featured on Good Morning America and in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. She has appeared in several documentary films including “The Human Experiment” produced by Sean Penn, “Pink Skies,” “Pretty Toxic,” “Stink Movie,” and “Not So Pretty” on HBO Max.

Stacy began her career as a newspaper reporter and editor for the Breckenridge Journal, Summit Sentinel, Summit Magazines and publisher of the Summit  Free Press, covering land use, environmental issues and politics in Summit County, Colorado. She lives in the California Bay Area with her son. 

Contact Stacy: stacy@usrtk.org
Follow Stacy on Twitter: @StacyMalkan

Trust in Science? WaPo Live owes its viewers more than PR panels sponsored by Bayer 

Stacy Malkan
December 6, 2022

Internal documents reveal pesticide industry science denial and manipulation: glyphosate case study

Stacy Malkan
December 5, 2022

Merchants of Poison reveals pesticide industry disinformation, science denial playbook

Stacy Malkan

IFIC: How Big Food defends ultra-processed foods, pesticides, artificial sweeteners

Stacy Malkan
October 29, 2022

Genetic Literacy Project: PR front for Monsanto, Bayer and the chemical industry

Stacy Malkan
July 14, 2022

Evidence missing in Covid origin investigation: WHO ‘open’ to probe, EcoHealth president on board

Stacy Malkan
June 16, 2022

Hill TV Live interview: Fauci, top virologists privately considered lab leak theory then turned on it, new docs show

Stacy Malkan
June 7, 2022

Food industry lobby group ILSI rebrands (again) to duck critical news coverage

Stacy Malkan

Center for Food Integrity: PR for processed foods, pesticides and GMOs

Stacy Malkan
April 26, 2022

Alison Van Eenennaam: key outside spokesperson and lobbyist for the pesticide and GMO industries

Stacy Malkan
April 12, 2022

Confronting potential food industry ‘front groups’: IFIC case study

Stacy Malkan
February 12, 2022

African groups want Gates Foundation, USAID to shift agricultural funding as hunger crisis worsens 

Stacy Malkan
September 8, 2021

Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ NYT article is propaganda, not journalism

Stacy Malkan
July 21, 2021

Hunger report spotlights controversial UN Food Systems Summit 

Stacy Malkan
July 14, 2021

Bill Gates’ radical food agenda: Ultra-processed foods, patents and pesticide monocrops

Stacy Malkan
May 26, 2021

U.S. Right to Know wins award for Freedom of Information work

Stacy Malkan
May 16, 2021

The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil, ’ UN documents say

Stacy Malkan
March 9, 2021

The Monsanto Papers – Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice

Stacy Malkan
March 1, 2021

Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems

Stacy Malkan
February 26, 2021

Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate

Stacy Malkan
February 25, 2021

Bayer’s shady PR firms: FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting

Stacy Malkan
November 11, 2020

Gates Foundation doubles down on misinformation campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology 

Stacy Malkan
September 30, 2020

Key pesticide industry PR group CBI closes; GMO Answers moves to CropLife

Stacy Malkan
September 2, 2020

CBI, GMO Answers, CropLife: pesticide industry PR salvos 

Stacy Malkan

GMO Answers is a marketing campaign funded by pesticide companies

Stacy Malkan
August 31, 2020

Report documents Gates Foundation’s ‘failing’ Green Revolution for Africa

Stacy Malkan
July 29, 2020

Corporate influence at the University of Saskatchewan: Professor Peter Phillips and his secret ‘right to know symposium’

Stacy Malkan
June 11, 2020

Stuart Smyth: agrichemical industry ties and funding

Stacy Malkan
June 1, 2020

Questions for the Bayer Shareholder Meeting, by Carey Gillam

Stacy Malkan
April 28, 2020

10 Revelations from the U.S. Right to Know Investigations

Stacy Malkan
March 30, 2020

Independent Women’s Forum: Koch-Funded Group Defends Pesticide, Oil, Tobacco Industries

Stacy Malkan
February 24, 2020

What would you say to Bayer at its annual shareholder meeting?

Stacy Malkan
February 18, 2020

Coronavirus Food News Tracker: Best articles on the pandemic and our food system

Stacy Malkan
January 12, 2020

Gift Ideas: Best 2019 Books and Movies About Our Food System 

Stacy Malkan
December 17, 2019

Is Cargill’s new stevia plant the ‘farm’ of the future?

Stacy Malkan
November 20, 2019

Gene Editing Mishaps Highlight Need for FDA Oversight

Stacy Malkan
October 17, 2019

I’m a Journalist. Monsanto Built a Strategy to Destroy My Reputation

Stacy Malkan
September 9, 2019

Top Findings of the U.S. Right To Know Investigations

Stacy Malkan
September 3, 2019

Nina Fedoroff: Mobilizing the authority of American science to back Monsanto

Stacy Malkan
June 18, 2019

The EPA is meant to protect us. The Monsanto trials suggest it is not

Stacy Malkan
May 7, 2019

Glyphosate spin check: Tracking claims about the most widely used herbicide

Stacy Malkan
April 26, 2019

State public records laws help uncover wrongdoing at public universities

Stacy Malkan
April 19, 2019

Read the emails, texts that show EPA efforts to slow ATSDR glyphosate review

Stacy Malkan
April 16, 2019

Monsanto relied on these ‘partners’ to attack top cancer scientists

Stacy Malkan
March 31, 2019

Newsweek Gets Ad Money from Bayer, Prints Op-Eds That Help Bayer

Stacy Malkan
March 28, 2019

Trimmed-Down Testimony as Monsanto Cancer Trial Winds Down

Stacy Malkan
March 25, 2019

Geoffrey Kabat’s ties to tobacco and chemical industry groups

Stacy Malkan
March 7, 2019

New Analysis Raises Questions About EPA’s Glyphosate Classification

Stacy Malkan
January 14, 2019

Pamela Ronald’s Ties to Chemical Industry Front Groups

Stacy Malkan
December 27, 2018

Hank Campbell’s maze of Monsanto-loving science blogs

Stacy Malkan
December 6, 2018
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