Abby Martin

Martin grew up in Pleasanton, California, where she attended Amador Valley High School, graduating in 2002.Ciardelli, Dolores Fox. (September 6, 2002). [http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2002/2002_09_06.leaving6.html Leaving for college]. Pleasanton Weekly. Retrieved January 22, 2014. She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001. "I didn't want him going to war, let alone fighting in one," she recalls. "I began to critically ask 'What is really going on?'"{{cite journal|author=Koss, Jeremy|date=May–June 2013|title=Real Talk|url=http://digital.somamagazine.com/publication/?i=158989&page=1&p=55|journal=SOMA Magazine|volume=27|issue=3|pages=52–53|issn=0896-5005}} By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University, she began questioning what she called the "selling" of the Iraq War by the media.Martin, Abby. (March 13, 2012). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kl4L1M8TY4 Presentation on Citizen Journalism]. Media Literacy: Corporate Propaganda & Advocating Independent Journalism. Project Censored. San Francisco State University. She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish.

In 2004, she campaigned for John Kerry's presidential campaign, but became disillusioned with the left–right paradigm, a concept proposing that societies have a tendency to divide themselves into ideological opposites.Mckenty, Doug. (September 12, 2011). [http://www.mediaroots.org/kzyx-interview-with-abby-martin-of-media-roots/ Interview with Abby Martin of Media Roots]. Thursday Morning Report. KZYX. Event occurs from 1:58—3:26. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801082235/http://www.mediaroots.org/kzyx-interview-with-abby-martin-of-media-roots/ |date=August 1, 2014 }} Martin worked for a time as an investigative journalist for a San Diego-based online news site until moving back to Northern California.Saportas, Oriana. (August 4, 2010). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUIRkQcK0sg Interview with Abby Martin about Media Roots]. Berkeley Community Media. Media Roots.Kerkman, Cassandra. Mosco, Oskar (ed). (July 31, 2012). [http://www.mediaroots.org/mr-founder-abby-martin-activist-turned-journalist/ MR Founder Abby Martin – Activist Turned Journalist]. Media Roots.

In 2008, Martin was active in the 9/11 truth movement,{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/latest-updates-on-ukraine-crisis-2/|title=Russia Today Host Has Roots in '9/11 Truth' Movement|last=Mackey|first=Robert|date=March 4, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 3, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/confessions-of-a-former-rt-employee/439872/|title=Confessions of a Former RT Employee|last=Journal|first=Lucia Graves, National|date=2014-03-05|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/04/russia-today-abby-martin-video_n_4894981.html|title=WATCH: Russia Today Host Goes Rogue On Ukraine Occupation|date=2014-03-04|website=HuffPost UK|language=en|access-date=2019-07-22}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/05/rt-journalist-quits-live-on-air-citing-russian-intervention-in-crimea/|title=RT journalist quits live on air, citing Russian intervention in Crimea|date=2014|newspaper=The Washington Post}} a movement which disputes the consensus regarding the attacks of September 11, 2001. Martin set up her own "truther" group in San Diego, California.{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/russia-today-presenter-abby-martin-says-she-isnt-going-to-crimea-no-matter-what-her-bosses-say|title=Watch as Russia Today presenter quits on live television over Moscow's actions in Crimea|website=www.nationalpost.com}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/116877/most-interesting-part-abby-martins-rt-outburst-its-aftermath|title=The Most Interesting Part of Abby Martin's Outburst on Russia Today: Its Aftermath|last=Bennett|first=Laura|date=2014-03-05|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=2019-07-22|issn=0028-6583}} That year, Martin said that the attacks of September 11 were "an inside job, and that our government was complicit in what happened".{{cite news|last=Kirchick|first=James|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/165008/rt-anchors-riff-not-as-rogue-as-it-seems|title=RT Anchors Riff Not as 'Rogue' as it Seems|work=Tablet|date=March 4, 2014|access-date=July 28, 2019|quote=On her program, she regularly gives air to outrageous conspiracy theories, including the notion that water fluoridation is a pernicious government plot to poison unsuspecting American citizens}} In March 2014, the Associated Press wrote that Martin no longer believes that U.S. government officials might have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.{{cite news|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/tv-anchorwoman-criticizes-kremlin-ukraine|title=TV anchorwoman criticizes Kremlin on Ukraine|last=Riechmann|first=Deb|date=March 5, 2014|work=Big Story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322165232/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/tv-anchorwoman-criticizes-kremlin-ukraine|archive-date=March 22, 2014|agency=Associated Press.|quote=She once protested with the 9/11 Truth movement, which alleges that U.S. government officials might have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a theory to which Martin says she no longer subscribes}}

In 2009, Martin founded the organization Media Roots, a citizen journalism platform for reporting news.Priesnitz, Wendy. (Sept/Oct 2011). Media Roots. The Media Beat. Natural Life, 141: 26. {{issn|0701-8002}}{{subscription required}} As an independent journalist with Media Roots, Martin covered the Occupy Oakland actions during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.Reitman, Janet (March 27, 2014). The Young Renegade of TV News. Rolling Stone. 1205: 20. {{issn|0035-791X}} Her documentary video footage of Occupy Oakland protests was used by the family of Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old former Marine and Iraq War veteran, in a lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. Martin's footage was used to argue that the protests were non-violent at the time Olsen was allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile.Martin, Abby. (October 25, 2011). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgn4IXHyVdI#t=12 Occupy Oakland: Police Standoff & Brutal Assault, Tear Gas]. Media Roots. YouTube. Retrieved January 21, 2014. RT took notice of Martin's work and began employing her as a correspondent.Ventura, Tyrel. (August 27, 2013). [http://thelip.tv/abby-martin-discusses-breaking-the-set-and-her-work-at-rt/ Abby Martin Discusses Breaking The Set and Her Work at RT]. Buzzsaw. TheLip.tv. Retrieved January 13, 2014. In the fall of 2010, she moved to Washington, D.C.Martin, Robbie. (October 6, 2010). [http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-episode-one/ Abby & Robbie Martin Introductions, Obama Administration] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140305212935/http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-episode-one/ |date=March 5, 2014 }}. Dangerous Conversations. RadioIO.

From 2012 to 2015, Martin hosted her own show, Breaking the Set, on RT America.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-rt-media/|title=At RT, News Breaks You|last=van Zuylen-Wood|first=Simon|date=May 4, 2017|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-03-15}}{{cite news|last=Bidder|first=Benjamin|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/putin-fights-war-of-images-and-propaganda-with-russia-today-channel-a-916162.html|title=Putin's Weapon in the War of Images|work=Der Spiegel|language=en-us|volume=33|pages=134–135|issn=0038-7452}}
Bidder's article also appeared in other news outlets, such as {{cite news |url=http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,a-anti-cnn-russa-na-guerra-das-imagens-,1070078,0.htm |title=A anti-CNN russa na guerra das imagens |language=pt |trans-title=Russian anti-CNN in the war of images|date=September 1, 2013 |work=O Estado de S. Paulo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902031206/http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso%2Ca-anti-cnn-russa-na-guerra-das-imagens-%2C1070078%2C0.htm |archive-date=September 2, 2013 |location=Brazil}} The program described itself as "a show that cuts through the false left/right paradigm set by the establishment and reports the hard facts".[https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset/about Breaking the Set: About]. YouTube Channel. Retrieved January 16, 2014. The original opening credits depict Martin applying a sledgehammer to a television tuned to CNN.{{cite news|last=Rankin|first=Jennifer|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/121219/russia-today-television-rt-satellite-tv-moscow-putin-washington|title=Russia Today chases ratings with controversy|work=GlobalPost|date=December 20, 2012|access-date=January 16, 2014}}

Shortly after beginning her show on RT, Martin stated in an interview with Mark Crispin Miller that "the media dismisses things that are too controversial as conspiracy theory".{{Citation|title=[40] Staged Terror, Fukushima Crime Syndicate, Conspiracy Reality|date=2012-11-01|url=http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/11/you-want-to-kill-an-inconvenient-story-call-it-a-conspiracy-theory-mcm-with-abby-martin/|work=Breaking the Set|access-date=2019-02-18|archive-date=June 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619042246/http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/11/you-want-to-kill-an-inconvenient-story-call-it-a-conspiracy-theory-mcm-with-abby-martin/|url-status=dead}}

In 2014, Martin gained attention for her criticism of RT's coverage of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Martin closed her show on March 3, 2014, with a minute-long statement condemning the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.{{cite news|last=Austin|first=Henry|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/news-anchor-slams-crimea-takeover-state-funded-russian-tv-n43746|title=News Anchor Slams Crimea Takeover on State-Funded Russian TV|work=NBC News|access-date=March 4, 2014|date=March 4, 2014}}{{cite news|last=Paget|first=Antonia|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/russia-today-host-condemns-ukraine-occupation-rgmqv036jcj|title=Russia Today host condemns Ukraine 'occupation'|work=The Times|date=March 4, 2014}} {{subscription required}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/ukraine-crisis-could-russia-today-turn-you-into-a-putin-propagandist-9174759.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307050724/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/ukraine-crisis-could-russia-today-turn-you-into-a-putin-propagandist-9174759.html |archive-date=2014-03-07 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Ukraine crisis: Could Russia Today turn you into a Putin propagandist?|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-08-25|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/05/rt-journalist-quits-live-on-air-citing-russian-intervention-in-crimea/|title=RT journalist quits live on air, citing Russian intervention in Crimea|first=Adam|last=Taylor|via=www.washingtonpost.com}} Glenn Greenwald compared Martin's statement favorably to the unquestioning behavior of the United States media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{cite news|last=Greenwald|first=Glenn|url=https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/04/rt-host-abby-martin-condemns-russian-incursion-crimea-rt/|title=RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – On RT|work=The Intercept|date=March 4, 2014|access-date=March 4, 2014|archive-date=June 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623172955/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/04/rt-host-abby-martin-condemns-russian-incursion-crimea-rt/|url-status=dead}} Critics of Martin argue that she appeared to be reading from a teleprompter, implying that her remarks were made with the consent of the show's producers.{{cite news|last=Krishnan|first=Joe|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-russia-today-tv-host-goes-offmessage-with-attack-on-intervention-in-crimea-9168654.html|title=Ukraine crisis: Russia Today TV host goes off-message with attack on intervention in Crimea|work=The Independent|date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323050245/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-russia-today-tv-host-goes-offmessage-with-attack-on-intervention-in-crimea-9168654.html|archive-date=March 23, 2014|quote = However, sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed that she was reading from the auto-cue and, therefore, presumably had permission from producers of the show to express her beliefs. |url-status = live }}{{cite news|last=Graef|first=Aileen|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/03/04/RT-news-anchor-speaks-out-against-Russian-intervention/1991393958764/|title=RT news anchor speaks out against Russian intervention|work=UPI|date=March 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323051313/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/03/04/RT-news-anchor-speaks-out-against-Russian-intervention/1991393958764/|archive-date=March 23, 2014|quote = Media analysts say that Martin was reading from a teleprompter and therefore more than likely had her producer's consent|url-status = live }} RT issued a statement saying: "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26440556|title=Russia TV host calls Ukraine intervention 'wrong' on-air|work=BBC News|date=March 4, 2014}}. RT added: "[W]e'll be sending her to Crimea to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story." Martin declined the offer, saying, "I am not going to Crimea despite the statement RT has made."{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10676113/Russia-Today-host-who-criticised-Kremlin-sent-to-Crimea.html|title=Russia Today host who criticised Kremlin sent to Crimea|last=Ensor|first=Josie|date=March 4, 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph}} The New York Times wrote that RT notified Martin that what she had said about Ukraine was "not in line with our editorial policy".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/business/media/moscow-joins-the-partisan-media-landscape-with-familiar-american-faces.html |url-access=subscription |title=Larry King, the Russian Media and a Partisan Landscape|last=Rutenberg |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Rutenberg |date=2016-09-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

Martin left RT in February 2015.{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Rosie|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rt-host-who-criticized-russias-ukraine-invasion-is-leaving-t#.fveQ484Vg|title=RT Host Who Criticized Russia's Ukraine Invasion Is Leaving The Network|work=BuzzFeed|date=February 19, 2015|access-date=April 20, 2015}} Speaking for RT, Anna Belkina told BuzzFeed: "Abby decided that this is the time for her to try something new. We are proud of the great work she has done as the host of Breaking the Set."{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Rosie|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/jesse-venturas-son-and-oliver-stones-get-a-show-at-russia-to#.nigkN5NMY|title=Jesse Ventura's Son And Oliver Stone's Son Get A Show At Russia Today|work=BuzzFeed|date=March 9, 2015|access-date=April 20, 2015}}

Martin called the charges of foreign control over her and Tulsi Gabbard "neo-McCarthyist hysteria" typical of the New Cold War. She said that the "campaign to malign RT" by "the corporate media" had resulted in a chilling effect over legitimate dissident reporters. She said that she had "complete editorial control" over her RT show, as did other American RT journalists like Chris Hedges and Lee Camp.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-taibbi-podcast-abby-martin-903218/|title=Useful Idiots: Abby Martin on New Doc 'Gaza Fights for Freedom'|date=2019-10-25|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-29}} She had earlier refused RT's offer to send her on a tour of Crimea, saying she didn't want a "vetted PR experience."

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In September 2015, Martin launched The Empire Files, an interview and documentary series. She has hosted guests including Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Richard D. Wolff, Ralph Nader and Jill Stein.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q/videos|title=Empire Files - YouTube|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=August 11, 2020}}

The show was originally hosted by Telesur English, a media outlet sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela. Martin told Ben Norton writing for AlterNet: "The show is totally independent of Telesur. We merely sell them the content; they have zero control over anything we do".{{Cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/venezuela-abby-martin-mike-prysner-lies-death-threats|title=Venezuelan Opposition Spreads Lies About U.S. Journalists, Inciting Violence, Death Threats|last=Norton|first=Ben|date=3 June 2017|website=AlterNet|access-date=6 June 2017|archive-date=June 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606212840/http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/venezuela-abby-martin-mike-prysner-lies-death-threats|url-status=dead}} In 2018, Telesur stopped funding The Empire Files due to increasing US sanctions on Venezuela, according to a press release published by Martin's Media Roots website. Martin, her co-producer and husband Michael Prysner, and other Telesur contract journalists had their funding blocked by the application of United States sanctions against Venezuela.{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1345216431 |title=Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy |date=2023 |publisher= Haymarket Books|isbn=978-1-64259-812-4 |location= |pages=69 |oclc=1345216431 |last1=Davis |first1=Stuart }} Academic Stuart Davis cites the cancellation as an example of how United States sanctions hamper public funding of media production in Venezuela.

In August 2018 the show moved to a donation model in order to continue production.{{Cite news|url=http://mediaroots.org/us-sanctions-shut-down-the-empire-files-with-abby-martin/ |title=US Sanctions Shut Down 'The Empire Files' with Abby Martin|work=Media Roots|access-date=August 25, 2018|language=en-US|quote=The Empire Files ... has been funded through a contract with the TeleSUR network}} The show has since become a web series exclusively, with episodes being uploaded to Martin's website, YouTube and Vimeo. Released in May 2019, her feature film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom, concerns the Gaza–Israel conflict.{{Cite web|url=https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/|title=Gaza Fights For Freedom {{!}} A Film by Abby Martin|website=Gaza Fights For Freedom|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-05|archive-date=August 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805064611/https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/|url-status=dead}} It was shown in the US, UK and Australia at independent theatres.{{Cite web|last=abby|title='Gaza Fights For Freedom' Screening Tour with Abby Martin|url=http://mediaroots.org/gaza-fights-for-freedom-uscanada-screening-tour-with-abby-martin/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=MEDIA ROOTS – Reporting From Outside Party Lines|date=August 15, 2019 |language=en-US}} In May 2021, Martin released the film for free on YouTube.

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In February 2020, Martin's booking to speak at a conference at Georgia Southern University on Critical Media Literacy was canceled when she refused to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel as required by law in the State of Georgia. Martin, represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a free-speech lawsuit against the State of Georgia.{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cair-ga-civil-rights-groups-165700544.html|title=Civil Rights Groups to Announce Federal Free Speech Lawsuit Against Georgia's Unconstitutional 'Israel Boycott' Law|website=Yahoo Finance|date=February 10, 2020|access-date=February 10, 2020}} The conference was later canceled.{{cite news|last=Schechter|first=Dave|url=https://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/georgia-anti-bds-law-challenged/|title=Georgia Anti-BDS Law Challenged|work=Atlanta Jewish Times|date=February 13, 2020|access-date=February 15, 2020}}

In May 2021, in a federal court hearing in Georgia, District Judge Mark Cohen ruled in Martin's favor when he found that a law created to discourage the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was in violation of the First Amendment.{{cite court |litigants=Martin v. Wrigley |vol=540 |reporter=F. Supp. 3d |opinion=1220 |court=N.D. Ga. |date=2021-05-21 |url=https://casetext.com/case/martin-v-wrigley}}{{cite news|last=Redden|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/05/26/court-says-requirement-conference-speaker-sign-anti-bds-pledge-unconstitutional|title=Want Your Honorarium? Sign an Anti-BDS Pledge First|work=Inside Higher Ed|date=May 26, 2021|access-date=May 27, 2021}} Judge Cohen ruled that Georgia's law "prohibits inherently expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment."{{cite web |title=Federal judge says Georgia's anti-BDS law violates First Amendment |url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/555124-federal-judge-says-georgias-anti-bds-law-violates-first-amendment |first=Harper |last=Neidig |work=The Hill |date=May 24, 2021 |access-date=June 3, 2021}}

Millennial Magazine said that Martin was an "unfiltered" media representative for the Millennial generation who reports "stories that deserve public recognition".Hysen, Britt (July 28, 2014). [http://millennialmagazine.com/abby-martin/ RT Host Abby Martin Takes On Corporate Media] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331181835/http://millennialmagazine.com/abby-martin/ |date=March 31, 2016 }}. Millennial Magazine. Retrieved July 28, 2014. Journalist Michael C. Moynihan stated that "Martin's politics are odious and frequently incoherent". He said her "lamentations for lost American freedom" did not equate to anti-authoritarianism and criticised her for "fail[ing] to notice Russia’s previous brutal military interventions and ongoing brutal war on terror" prior to its invasion of Crimea and for saying Hugo Chávez "cannot be dismissed as a tyrant because his voice of opposition, and others like him, serves a necessary divide to prevent global corporate enslavement and tyranny".{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/09/how-to-justify-russian-aggression|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127080354/https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-to-justify-russian-aggression|archive-date=November 27, 2023|title=How to Justify Russian Aggression|last=Moynihan |first=Michael |author-link=Michael C. Moynihan |date=March 9, 2014|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=February 13, 2019|language=en}}

James Kirchick, in a 2015 article for The Daily Beast, commented: "Thanks to her paymasters in the Kremlin, she had three years to use the network's airwaves and wildly popular YouTube channel to broadcast paranoid diatribes that would otherwise have languished in anonymity on the Internet fringe."{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/12/putin-tv-hires-conspiracy-royalty|title=Putin TV Hires Conspiracy Royalty|last=Kirchick|first=James|work=The Daily Beast|date=March 12, 2015|access-date=July 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203143653/https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-tv-hires-conspiracy-royalty|archive-date=February 3, 2024}} Regarding her work on Venezuela, libertarian journalist and author John Stossel states that Martin "does government-funded propaganda for Telesur".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressconnects.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/05/04/journalists-propaganda-murderers/34528893/|title=A journalist's propaganda for murderers|last=Stossel |first=John |author-link=John Stossel |date=4 May 2018|website=Pressconnects|publisher=USA Today|language=en|access-date=13 February 2019}}

Martin has been criticized for her past support of the 9/11 truth movement. In 2014 New York Times columnist Robert Mackey contrasted Martin's critical remarks on the Russian annexation of Crimea with her conviction "that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were part of a government conspiracy."{{cite news|title=March 4 Updates on Ukraine Crisis|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/latest-updates-on-ukraine-crisis-2/?src=twt&twt=thelede&smid=tw-nytimes#critical-russia-today-host-in-911-truth-movement|access-date=29 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 4, 2014 }} Author and media consultant Chez Pazienza criticized Martin for being a 9/11 Truther.{{cite news|url=http://thedailybanter.com/2014/03/the-truther-about-abby-martin/|title=The Truth(er) About Abby Martin|access-date=29 March 2014}}

David Cromwell, British media campaigner of and co-editor of Media Lens, states that Martin is a "superb independent journalist ... who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela".{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype168.midseptember2018|title=Empire journalism|last=Cromwell |first=David |author-link=David Cromwell |date=12 September 2018|website=ColdType|language=en|access-date=2019-02-13|quote=To realise how incomplete and distorted is BBC News coverage, you only have to listen to the superb independent journalist Abby Martin, who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela}}

Martin is married to her Empire Files co-producer, Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran.[https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1809/S00012/us-sanctions-shut-down-the-empire-files-with-abby-martin.htm US Sanctions Shut Down 'The Empire Files' with Abby Martin], scoop.co.nz, September 3, 2018[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/antiwar-military-veterans-afghanistan-iraq-biden-troops "Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever." An interview with Mike Prysner], jacobinmag.com, August 19, 2021: "Prysner founded the organization March Forward! in 2008. Today, he's an antiwar journalist, having cowritten and produced multiple documentaries for the program The Empire Files, hosted by his wife, Abby Martin." Martin gave birth to their first child on May 31, 2020.Mike Prysner: [https://twitter.com/mikeprysner/status/1267878046276521985 Early Sunday @AbbyMartin: gave birth to our child. She went into labor marching 9mos pregnant all day with #BlackLivesMatter in Beverly Hills.], twitter.com, June 2, 2020 They have a second child, born on January 29, 2023.{{Cite tweet|number=1621281832133357569|user=MikePrysner|title=On Sunday @AbbyMartin gave birth to our second child :) Abby & baby are doing great and I'm in awe of how amazing they both are 💕|author=Mike Prysner|date=2023-02-03|access-date=2023-04-13}}

• Earth's Greatest Enemy (2021), directorhttps://earthsgreatestenemy.com/
• Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019), director{{Cite web|url=https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/|title=Gaza Fights For Freedom|website=gazafightsforfreedom.com|access-date=August 11, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805225048/https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/|url-status=dead}}
• The Choice Is Ours (2016), as herself{{cite web|title=The Venus Project|url=https://www.thevenusproject.com/learn-more/documentaries/|website=imdb.com|publisher=The Venus Project|access-date=23 January 2016}}
• 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013), co-director{{cite web|title=99% // The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film |url=http://www.99percentfilm.com/ |website=99percentfilm.com |access-date=14 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114093643/http://www.99percentfilm.com/ |archive-date=November 14, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
• Project Censored the Movie (2013), as herself{{cite web|title=IMDb: Project Censored the Movie (2013)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2689286/|website=imdb.com|publisher=IMDb|access-date=14 November 2016}}

• Martin, Abby. (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. {{ISBN|1609803582}}.
• Martin, Abby. (2011). Media Democracy in Action. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. {{ISBN|1609803582}}.
• Martin, Abby. (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. {{ISBN|9780996546003}}.
• Martin, Abby (2018) Project Censored. Foreword by Abby Martin.

• Project Censored, KPFA (94.1 FM), co-host{{cite web|title=Project Censored — The News that Didn't Make the News and Why|url=http://projectcensored.org/|website=projectcensored.org|publisher=Project Censored}}

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