Abby Martin

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Abby Martin in conversation with RT America (2012)

Abigail Suzanne "Abby" Martin (born September 6, 1984 in Oakland , California ) is an American journalist and political activist. From 2015 to 2018 she was the host in charge of the TV program The Empire Files on teleSUR English . She became known to a wider public as the presenter of the Russian foreign television channel RT America , where she was employed from 2012 to 2015.

Life

Abby Martin grew up in Pleasanton , California. She graduated from Amador Valley High School. She then studied political science at San Diego State University with a bachelor's degree . Against the background of the Iraq war and her dissatisfaction with the prevailing media coverage, she began to get involved in protest movements. Parallel to her studies, she gained experience at internet shows and took part in the 9/11 Truth Movement . For a while she lived in Costa Rica and Spain .

Professional development

Abby Martin has been running the grassroots journalism platform Media Roots, which she founded, since 2009 . Through her self-produced reports on the protests of the Occupy movement in Oakland, California, in October 2011, RT America , the US branch of the Russian international television station RT, became aware of her and offered her a collaboration. When the presenter Alyona Minkovski left RT America in July 2012, the program slot for The Alyona Show became free. Martin went to Washington and took over the broadcast slot from September 2012 as the presenter of her own weekday program Breaking the Set , in which she criticized the dominance of Western media, among other things. In the opening credits to the debut broadcast of Breaking the Set (double meaning: "Dissolving prefabricated structures" and "Destroying the television") Abby Martin could be seen using a sledgehammer to smash a television set that was previously showing various US news programs.

During the Crimean crisis in 2014, at the end of her March 3, 2014 broadcast on RT America, Martin opposed the occupation of Crimea by the Russian military. Russia’s actions are wrong and they are against meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state. After this statement was picked up by other media, Martin emphasized in her subsequent broadcast that her example shows how selectively the Western media report. In February 2015 she finished her work for the program Breaking the Set . The reason she gave was that she wanted to devote more time to investigative journalism.

In September 2015, the new program The Empire Files , a weekly news program with an investigative character , started on teleSUR English . The program was closed in August 2018 as a result of the US sanctions against Venezuela.

She is on the board of directors of the Media Freedom Foundation, which runs the Project Censored program . Martin appeared in the documentary Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013) and was part of the executive team of 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013).

In addition to her journalistic work, Abby Martin works as a visual artist and action artist.

Selected fields of work

watch TV

  • The Empire Files (2015–, presenter)
  • Breaking the Set (2012-15), presenter

Movie

  • 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013), co-director
  • Project Censored the Movie (2013), as a private person

Books

  • 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 .

radio

Video

  • Media Roots TV (2009 - today)

art

  • The Crisis of Civilization (2011), movie poster

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marketwired . (September 3, 2015). " TeleSUR Launches New Investigative TV Show Hosted by Abby Martin ." Yahoo Finance. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ Malavé, Helga (August 27, 2015). " Abby Martin Launches Investigative News Show for teleSUR ." TeleSUR. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Koss, Jeremy. (May / June 2013). Real talk . SOMA Magazine , 27 (3): 52-53. ISSN  0896-5005
  4. ↑ www.mediaroots.org
  5. ↑ www.pleasantonweekly.com
  6. ↑ a b Abby Martin on Breaking The Set and Her Work at RT, Martin as guest of the talk show Buzzsaw on The Lip TV on August 27, 2013 (English)
  7. ^ About Media Roots
  8. ↑ Putin's mass media weapon , Nik Afanasjew in: Der Tagesspiegel , December 7, 2013
  9. ↑ Putin's World , Christoph Lanz in: Berliner Zeitung , December 14, 2012
  10. ↑ Russia Today chases ratings with controversy , Jennifer Rankin, GlobalPost , December 20, 2012
  11. ↑ Debut Show: Breaking The Set , on YouTube, accessed April 3, 2014
  12. ^ Message on Spiegel Online about Martin's comment on the crime crisis in Breaking the Set on Russia Today.
  13. ↑ Martin's response to the glorification of her criticism of Russia in the program Breaking the Set .
  14. ↑ http://www.mediaroots.org/never-stop-breaking-the-set/
  15. ↑ US Sanctions Take Aim at Venezuela and TeleSUR, Force Abby Martin's “Empire Files” to Shut Down . In: MintPress News . August 23, 2018 ( mintpressnews.com [accessed August 25, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Huff, Mickey. (2012). Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012 . Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609804236 . P. 280.
  17. ↑ a b Huff, Mickey. (2013). Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13 . Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609804953 . P. 264 .
  18. ↑ Anderson, John. (January 22, 2013). Review: '99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film ' . Variety . Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  19. ↑ About Me ( Memento from January 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Abby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Abigail Suzanne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California