Sheldon Rampton

Sheldon Rampton
Born	(1957-08-04) August 4, 1957 (age 66) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Editor, author

Sheldon Rampton (born August 4, 1957) is an American editor and author. He was editor of

Upon graduation from college in 1982, Rampton worked as a newspaper reporter before becoming a peace activist. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked closely with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), which opposed the Reagan administration's military interventions in Central America and works to promote economic development, human rights, and mutual friendship between the people of the United States and Nicaragua. At WCCN, Rampton helped establish the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund) in 1992, which channels loans from US investors to support microcredit and other "alternative credit" programs in Nicaragua.^[2]

In 1995, Rampton teamed with

After leaving the Center for Media and Democracy in 2009, Rampton became a website developer, joining an open government initiative led by New York State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin.^[11][12] In 2010, Hoppin and Rampton co-founded NuCivic, an open source software company,^[13][14] which they sold in December 2014 to GovDelivery, a software services company now known as Granicus.^[15][16] Rampton currently works as a software engineer at Granicus.^[17]

Writings by Rampton

• With Liz Chilsen:
  • Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities (1987)
• With John Stauber:
  • Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (1995)
  • Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? (1997)^[18]
  • Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (2001)
  • Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (2003)^[19]
  • Banana Republicans (2004)
  • The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (2006)

References