Will Potter
Will Potter (born 1980) is an American investigative journalist and public speaker. From 2016 to 2017, he was the Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan. He has written for several publications, including the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and Legal Affairs. In his writings, he has focused on how the "war on terrorism" affects civil liberties. He has become a leading critic of the US government's Green Scare tactics, through his website, GreenIsTheNewRed.com. He has written several articles on this topic, as well as participating in conferences and giving lectures at universities, with some of his papers used in courses. In 2006, he spoke to the U.S. Congress about his reporting on these issues, and in 2008 his article about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, was discussed in the book, Censored 2008, as one of the top 25 overlooked news stories of 2007. Potter is also a TED Fellow, having given a talk about communication management units.
In 2025 Potter published Little Red Barns, described in a Washington Post review as "an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us. [The book is based on Potter's] epic, emotionally and physically draining 10-year investigation into American factory farms — also known as CAFOs, “concentrated animal feeding operations” — and the dedicated activists seeking to expose the mass suffering within."
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