Truthout
Truthout is a US non-profit organization that has been running a journalistic website since September 2001 .
Foundation and goals
Truthout was founded in 2000 in Sacramento , in the US state of California established as a 501 (c) organization . The current president is Robert Naiman. The Board of Directors is led by Henry A. Giroux , Lewis Gordon and Maya Schenwar. The website is assigned to the progressivist spectrum. Well-known publicists include Paul Krugman , Kathy Kelly , Norman Solomon , Dean Baker , Richard D. Wolff and Noam Chomsky .
Truthout reported extensively on allegations of torture under the George W. Bush administration , on the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan . The website gains international fame because it is sometimes quoted by the US media. In 2010, while reporting on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico , the investigative news magazine 60 Minutes reported on the website, as it had previously published a report in which a whistleblower provided detailed information about another leak on the Deepwater Horizon .
The organization is supported by the non-profit foundation to strengthen the freedom of the press and freedom of expression , Freedom of the Press Foundation . She is a member of the in 1939 by Joseph Cookman, Allen Raymond and Heywood Broun founded union The Newspaper Guild, which is a sister company of the Communications Workers of America is.
In Germany, the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) carries out truthout in the security press review dossier .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Former BP Insider Warns Of Another Potential Disaster. CBS News, May 16, 2010, accessed February 3, 2017 .
- ↑ bpb - Dossier - Security Policy Press Review. Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on February 3, 2017 .