Dan Froomkin

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Dan Froomkin is a journalist who served as the Huffington Post correspondent for Washington, DC , USA . He is also known for his blog White House Watch the Washington Post known and since 2014 also for the intercept operates. According to the statutes, he deals with violations of civil rights , corruption , abuse of justice and social injustice - but above all the processing of documents on the global surveillance and espionage affair , which are provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden . Froomkin is a Knight-Wallace Fellow .

Life & Creation

Dom Froomkin worked during his since the 1980s continuing years of career for different media, such as the Miami Herald , the Winston-Salem Journal , the Orange County Register and the trade journal for educators Education Week .

He started working for the Washington Post in 1997 and was an editor there from 2001 to 2003 . In 2004 , he published daily texts on the events of the people and politics of the White House on his own blog, White House Watch , until he left the newspaper in 2009 .

Froomkin is Associate Editor of the Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask blog, run by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University .

Since February 2014 he has worked as a journalist for the financially and editorially independent portal The Intercept , which mainly deals with the documents that led to the global surveillance and espionage affair.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b About White House Watch , The Washington Post website, February 15, 2008 . Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  2. ^ Dan Froomkin: Froomkin Watch , The Washington Post Company. June 29, 2009. Accessed February 10, 2014. 
  3. ^ The Intercept: Dan Froomkin, Author at The Intercept ( English ) In: FirstLook.org/theintercept . The Intercept. February 10, 2014. Archived from the original on February 10, 2014. Retrieved on February 10, 2014.