A journalist collects and distributes information about current events, people, trends, and issues. His or her work is acknowledged as journalism.

Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports or articles as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, or the Internet. Reporters cultivate sources for their work, their reports can be either spoken or written, and they are often expected to report in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good. A columnist is a journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines. A polemical journalist combines reportage with personal opinion.

Depending on the context, the term ''journalist'' also includes various types of editors and visual journalists, such as photographers, graphic artists, and page designers.

Journalist prison census

According to the ''2008 prison census'' by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the world's foremost jailers of journalists are: # People's Republic of China # Cuba # Burma # Eritrea # Uzbekistan The Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists publish reports on press freedom and organize informational campaigns.

See also

Accessinterviews.com

Critic

Military journalist

War correspondent

Notes

References

Fowler, Nathaniel Clark. (1913). ''The Handbook of Journalism: All about Newspaper Work.--Facts and Information of Vital Moment to the Journalist and to All who Would Enter this Calling.'' New York: Sully and Kleinteich.

Huffman, James L. (2003). ''A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist.'' Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 10-ISBN 0-742-52621-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-742-52621-1

Randall, David. (2000). ''The Universal Journalist.'' Sterling Virginia: Pluto Press. 10-ISBN 0-745-31641-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-745-31641-3; OCLC 43481682

Stone, Ejijah Melville. (1921) ''Fifty Years a Journalist.'' New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. OCLC 1520155

Woods, Donald. (1981). ''Asking for Trouble: Autobiography of a Banned Journalist.'' New York: Atheneum. 10-ISBN 0689111592; 13-ISBN 978-0-689-11159-4; OCLC 6864121

Media Club of Pakistan www.iranewschannel.com www.apnaira.com

External links

Society of Professional Journalists

Twenty key points every TV journalist should know

Journalists Category:Media occupations

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Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr. (born October 2, 1954) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in DeKalb County, a largely suburban county east of Atlanta. It also includes portions of Gwinnett and Rockdale counties.

Johnson is—along with Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, also elected to Congress in 2006—one of the first two Buddhists to serve in the United States Congress.

Life, education and career

Johnson grew up in Washington, D.C. His father worked for the Bureau of Prisons and was the director of classifications and paroles, up to that time, the highest ranking African American in the bureau.

Johnson graduated from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1976, was a member of Omega Psi Phi Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter, Decatur, Georgia, and Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston in 1979; he practiced law in Decatur, Georgia, for more than 25 years.

He was elected to the DeKalb County Commission in 2000 and served two terms. Prior to his service on the Commission, he worked as an Associate Magistrate Judge for ten years.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Committee on Armed Services

*Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces

*Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities

Committee on the Judiciary

*Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law

*Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security

Political positions

In 2008, Johnson was elected to serve as regional whip for Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

On November 18, 2008, Johnson was elected Regional Whip for the Eighth Region (GA, FL, MS, AL, U.S. Virgin Islands) by the Democratic Caucus.

Position on the Iraq War

On January 25, 2007, Johnson responded to U.S. President George W. Bush's State of the Union address by criticizing the war in Iraq, saying "This war has proven to be one of the gravest missteps in the recent history of our country. It is time for President Bush to face the music and respond to the urgent demands of a frustrated country."

On February 8, 2007, Johnson introduced his first bill: a resolution requesting that the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates take U.S. troops off of street patrol duty in Iraq. "There is no military solution for the civil war in Iraq," said Johnson, "It is time for Iraqi troops, who have been trained, to assume responsibility for patrolling their own streets. Clearly, deploying our troops this way has only escalated the number of U.S. casualties, and this must stop." According to the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', Johnson's resolution was "interesting in that it goes beyond broad directives and proposes something very specific."

On March 23, 2007, Johnson voted to pass H.R. 1591, "The U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act." This bill provided $124 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and required that President George W. Bush withdraw American forces from Iraq by mid-2008. Johnson attracted attention by blogging about his decision to vote for the bill.

On May 24, 2007, Johnson voted to cut funding for the Iraq War that did not include binding requirements of the Iraqi government and made no provisions for the redeployment of American armed forces from Iraq.

Economic Positions

Johnson voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout bill in November 2008.

He voted in favor of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the stimulus package supported by Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama.

In 2007, Johnson's H.Con.Res.80, a resolution calling for peaceful resolution to the Ugandan civil war between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, unanimously passed the House and Senate. Johnson's first successful piece of legislation, it was jointly introduced in the Senate by Democratic Senator Russ Feingold and Republican Senator Sam Brownback.

Joe Wilson

In 2009, Johnson demanded censure of Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie" remark, arguing that the comment had an unseen racial undertone and that, if Wilson was not formally rebuked, "We will have people with white hoods running through the countryside again."

Comments on Guam Tipping Over

During a House Armed Services Committee hearing in March 2010 concerning the U.S. military installation on the island of Guam, Johnson said to Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize," to which Admiral Willard replied, "We don't anticipate that." Johnson later claimed that it was a metaphor. The video of Johnson's comments became an internet sensation in the week prior to the 2010 elections, which he went on to win.

Political campaigns

2006

Johnson forced former Representative Cynthia McKinney into a runoff by holding McKinney under 50% in the July 18, 2006 Democratic primary: McKinney got 47.1% of the vote; Johnson 44.4%, and a third candidate got 8.5%. McKinney had been favored to win, so her narrow margin surprised observers. Johnson picked up support because, after the primary, he seemed to have a real possibility of winning.

In the runoff of August 8, 2006, although there were about 8,000 more voters, McKinney got about the same number of votes as in the July primary. Johnson won with 41,178 votes (59%); McKinney got 28,832 (41%).

The 4th is one of the most Democratic districts in the South, and among Georgia districts, only the neighboring 5th is considered more Democratic. It is so heavily Democratic that Johnson's primary victory all but assured him of becoming the district's third congressman (it was created as the 11th in 1993 and renumbered the 4th in 1997). In November, he trounced the Republican candidate, Catherine Davis, with 76% of the vote—one of the largest percentages for a Democrat in a contested election, and the largest in the history of the district. He was unopposed for reelection in 2008.

On October 6, 2006, Congressional Quarterly's "On Their Way," which features promising candidates soon-to-arrive in Washington, featured Johnson.

Johnson's aggressive use of the internet to court supporters and attract national attention to the 2006 race in which he challenged and defeated Cynthia McKinney was noted by national political media. The National Journal wrote that of all Congressional candidates nationwide in 2006, "Johnson had the most unique blog strategy by far." The National Journal ranked Johnson's use of the internet to defeat McKinney—and the broader trend of challengers using the blogosphere to challenge entrenched incumbents—as the third most significant blog-related story of 2006. Johnson was the first Congressional candidate invited to blog for ''The Hill'''s Congress Blog, typically reserved for Members of Congress. "I'm tremendously excited about the opportunity to use this unique medium to strengthen democracy by increasing open interaction between constituents and candidates," Johnson wrote. "I hope to provide you with an inside view of this hotly-contested, high stakes runoff."

2008

Johnson won reelection with 99.9% of the vote, challenged only by Independent write-in candidates Loren Christopher Collins, Faye Coffield and Jacob Perasso.

Johnson was the first Democratic congressman in Georgia to publicly endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary on July 30, 2007.

2010

Personal life

Johnson's wife, Mereda Davis Johnson, is an attorney; they have two children.

In December 2009, Johnson revealed that he had been battling Hepatitis C for over a decade, which resulted in slow speech and a tendency to regularly get "lost in thought in the middle of a discussion". Johnson said that he learned he had the disease in 1998 but does not know how he contracted it. The disease has damaged his liver and led to thyroid problems. He was treated with a combination of ribavirin and interferon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In February 2010, Johnson finished an experimental treatment for Hepatitis C, resulting in weight gain and increased energy.

References

External links

U.S. Representative Hank Johnson ''official U.S. House site''

Hank Johnson for U.S. Congress ''official campaign site''

Profile at SourceWatch

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birthname	Daniel Keenan Savage
birth date	October 07, 1964
birth place	Chicago, Illinois
spouse	Terry Miller
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Daniel Keenan "Dan" Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist and newspaper editor. Savage writes the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column ''Savage Love''. Its tone is frank in its discussion of sexuality, often humorous, and hostile to social conservatives, as in the Santorum controversy regarding homosexuality. Savage, who is gay, has often been the subject of controversy regarding some of his opinions that pointedly clash with cultural conservatives and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment". He has also worked as a theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan, using his middle name and his grandmother's maiden name. In 2010, Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth.

Early life and college

Dan Savage was born to William and Judy Savage in Chicago, Illinois. He is of Irish ancestry. The third of four children, Savage was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, which he has described as "a Catholic high school in Chicago for boys thinking of becoming priests." Though Savage has stated that he is now "a wishy-washy agnostic" and an atheist, he has said that he still considers himself "culturally Catholic."

Savage attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied theater and history. As a theater director, Savage (working under the name "Keenan Hollahan") was a founder of Seattle's Greek Active Theater. Much of the group's work has been queer recontextualizations of classic works, such as a tragicomic ''Macbeth'' with both the title character and Lady Macbeth played by performers of the opposite sex. In March 2001, he directed his own ''Egguus'' at Consolidated Works, a parody of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play ''Equus'' which exchanged a fixation on horses for a fixation on chickens. Savage has not directed, produced, or performed in any productions since a 2003 production of ''Letters from the Earth'', also at Consolidated Works, his trimmed version of Mark Twain's ''The Diary of Adam and Eve'', which received scathing reviews, including one from his own paper, "My Boss's Show Stinks".

Savage Love

In 1991, Savage was living in Madison, Wisconsin, and working as a manager at a local video store that specialized in independent film titles. There, Savage befriended Tim Keck, co-founder of ''The Onion'', who announced that he was moving to Seattle to help start an alternative weekly newspaper titled ''The Stranger''. Savage "made the offhand comment that forever altered [his] life: 'Make sure your paper has an advice column — everybody claims to hate 'em, but everybody seems to read 'em'." Savage typed up a sample column, and to Savage's surprise Keck offered him the job.

Savage stated in a February 2006 interview in ''The Onion'''s ''A.V. Club'' (which publishes his column) that he began the column with the express purpose of providing mocking advice to heterosexuals. Savage wanted to call the column "Hey Faggot!" His editors at the time refused his choice of column name, but for the first several years of the column, he attached "Hey Faggot!" at the beginning of each printed letter as a salutation. According to Savage: In his February 25, 1999 column, Savage announced that he was retiring the phrase: "Lo many columns later, it feels strange to begin every column with a joke about a debate that ended years ago."

He has written in a number of columns about "straight rights" concerns, such as the HPV vaccine and the morning-after pill, stating in his November 9, 2005, column that "[t]he right-wingers and the fundies and the sex-phobes don't just have it in for the queers. They're coming for your asses too."

Radio and journalism

thumb|right|Dan Savage speaking at Illinois Wesleyan University, 2007In addition to maintaining his weekly column and authoring four books, Savage has been involved in several other projects.

From 1994 until 1997, he had a weekly three-hour call-in show called ''Savage Love Live'' on Seattle's KCMU (now KEXP). From 1998 to 2000, he ran the biweekly advice column ''Dear Dan'' on the news website abcnews.com.

He is now the editorial director of the weekly Seattle newspaper ''The Stranger'', a promotion from his former position as ''The Stranger''s editor-in-chief. Savage is currently a contributor to ''This American Life'', an hour-long radio show on Chicago's WBEZ syndicated by PRI, as well as a frequent contributor to ''Out'' magazine and a "Real Time Real Reporter" on HBO's ''Real Time with Bill Maher''. He has also made multiple appearances on MSNBC's ''Countdown with Keith Olbermann'' and CNN's ''Anderson Cooper 360'' discussing LGBT politcal issues such as same-sex marriage and Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Podcast

The Savage Lovecast is a weekly audio podcast based on Savage's column ''Savage Love'', available via iTunes and at the ''Stranger'''s website for free download. It features Savage doing a call-in version of his sex advice column.

iPhone App

In 2010, the Savage Love iPhone App was released. The app features a "Question of the Day" pulled from "Slog," the Stranger's blog, as well as archived and indexed advice from ''Savage Love''s archives. The app also provides access to The Savage Lovecast podcast and videos of Savage's speaking appearances, among other features.

Opinions and points of view

It Gets Better Project

On September 21, 2010, Savage started the It Gets Better Project in light of the suicide of 15-year-old Billy Lucas, who was bullied for his perceived sexual orientation. The project encourages adults, both LGBT and otherwise, to submit videos assuring gay teenagers that life can improve after bullying in early life. As of January 3, 2011, the project had over 5,000 user created testimonials.

Political advocacy

Savage has written about his interest in political matters. His political leanings are primarily liberal, with pronounced contrarian and libertarian streaks. For example, he wrote that in 2000, suffering from the flu while on an assignment for salon.com to cover the Iowa caucuses, he was so angered by televised remarks in opposition to same-sex marriage by conservative Republican presidential hopeful Gary Bauer that he abandoned his original plan "to follow one of the loopy conservative Christian candidates around — Bauer or Alan Keyes — and write something insightful and humanizing about him, his campaign, and his supporters." Instead, he volunteered for the Bauer campaign with the intent to infect the candidate with his flu. He wrote that he licked doorknobs and other objects in the campaign office, and handed Bauer a saliva-coated pen, hoping to pass the virus on to Bauer and his supporters (though he later said that much of the article had been fictitious). He also registered and participated in the caucus, which was illegal, as Savage was not an Iowa resident. He was charged and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulent voting in a caucus, and was sentenced to a year's probation, 50 hours of community service, and a $750 fine.

Savage frequently mentions political issues in his column, particularly issues that affect family planning, birth control, and sexuality. He often encourages readers to get involved and/or voice a positive or negative opinion about a politician or public official.

After Rick Santorum, then a United States senator from Pennsylvania, made comments to a reporter comparing homosexual sex to bestiality and incest in 2003, Savage assailed Santorum in his column. Later, he sponsored a contest that led to the term ''santorum'' being used to refer to "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes a byproduct of anal sex". Savage set up a website to spread the definition. In 2010, Savage offered to remove his website if Rick Santorum would agree to donate US$5 million to a gay rights group. The organization, Freedom to Marry, advocates on behalf of same-sex marriage in the United States. Savage told ''Mother Jones'' in 2010, "If Rick Santorum wants to make a $5 million donation to [the gay marriage group] Freedom to Marry, I will take it down. Interest starts accruing now." Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, responded in a statement to ''Metro Weekly'': "Support for Freedom to Marry's national campaign would be welcome—and a good way for Rick Santorum to start cleaning up the discriminatory mess he and his companions have made."

Savage continued the tradition in 2009 by having his readers vote to define ''saddlebacking'' as "the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities", as a protest against the vocal support given to California Proposition 8 by Rick Warren (pastor of Saddleback Church), and President Barack Obama's invitation to Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. When Savage vowed to boycott Utah due to strong Mormon support for Proposition 8 ("Fuck you, Utah – we’re going to big, blue Colorado"), the ''Salt Lake City Weekly'' dropped Savage's column: "all Utahns aren’t to blame."

Savage strongly supported the war in Iraq in the pages of ''The Stranger'' in October 2002. By the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003, however, he had somewhat softened his argument.

Savage has also been a vocal opponent of state legislation proscribing the sale of sex toys. After an exposé by Kandiss Crone from WLBT (Jackson, Mississippi) precipitated the arrest and fining of an adult video store owner, Savage suggested that readers send any sex toys that they needed to dispose of to Crone.

Personal opinions

Savage initially supported the Iraq war and advocated military action against other Middle Eastern states, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, saying, "Islamo-fascism is a regional problem, like European fascism – and the Middle East [has] to be remade just as Europe was remade." One week before the war began, Savage spoke against it, citing the inability of President George W. Bush to form a convincing case and sway the UN and NATO allies. By 2005 he deemed the situation "hopeless" and advocated an immediate troop withdrawal. He describes his view toward family as "conservative", and his husband, Terry Miller, is a "stay-at-home dad" for the couple's adopted son. He has, however, expressed skepticism of "simplistic" views of monogamy. In response to a letter asking "Is the AIDS crisis over?" Savage, in his October 22, 1997 column, answered simply, "Yes." Several weeks of columns were devoted in whole or in part to discussion of the issue. In an interview with the ''Daily Pennsylvanian'', Savage stated that then-Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli, whom Savage claimed was partially funded by state Republicans for a spoiler effect against Democrat Bob Casey, "should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but the rope." In the same interview, he stated, "Mr. Romanelli should go fuck himself." Immediately after the interview, Savage wrote, "I regret using that truck metaphor, and didn't mean it literally, and it was in poor taste, and I regret it." He opposes the tactics of the War on Drugs, and opposes the prohibition of certain controlled substances. On HBO's ''Real Time With Bill Maher'' July 15, 2011, during a panel discussion of the debt limit increase negotiations between the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama, Savage said in a stand-alone remark, "I wish the Republicans were all fucking dead." He apologized for his remarks on his blog later the same night saying in part, "I don't feel that way. My dad is a Republican. (Well, he says he's an independent, but he hasn't voted for a Democrat since JFK. My dad is a Republican.)"

Views on outing

Savage stated in a column that he favors outing in some cases, specifically mentioning anti-gay activist Tyler Whitney. However, in the same column he noted that "I recently talked someone ''out'' of outing a public figure. A ''Savage Love'' reader was contemplating outing an innocuous celebrity back in April. I advised him against it because, as I wrote to him privately, outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes."

Local issues

Savage's editorship of ''The Stranger'' has established him as a voice in local Seattle politics. His most high-profile commentary has been as an outspoken critic of the Teen Dance Ordinance and other crackdowns on all-ages events.

Savage argues that closing down supervised all-ages dance venues drives teens to boredom and reckless activities: "Places like Ground Zero and the Kirkland Teen Center are invaluable from a law enforcement point of view. They keep kids out of, say, 7-Eleven parking lots or the homes of friends whose parents are away."

Ann Landers

On December 3, 2002, Savage announced in an article that he had purchased columnist Ann Landers's desk; she died on June 22 of that year. Savage has facetiously referred to Landers as his "college roommate" and said "I like to think of myself as a gay Ann Landers."

Family and marriage

Savage's home state of Washington allows same-sex couples to adopt children and enter civil unions, but does not legally recognize same-sex marriage. In March 2004, Savage wrote about an action that he took to highlight what he saw as being indicative of same-sex couples' lack of legal right to marry. After his co-worker Amy Jenniges was denied a license to marry her girlfriend Sonia, Jenniges and Savage obtained a license to marry one another. He wrote at the time, "We emphasized to the clerk and her manager that Amy and I don't live together, we don't love each other, we don't plan to have kids together, and we're going to go on living and sleeping with our same-sex partners after we get married. So could we still get a marriage license?" According to Savage, the license-department manager replied, "Sure. If you've got $54, you can have a marriage license."

Savage and his husband, Terry, have one adopted son, D.J., and were married in Vancouver, BC in 2005.

Awards

!Year !! Work !! Award !! Organization !! Result
1999	''The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant''	PEN West Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction	PEN Center USA
2003	rowspan="2"	Lambda Literary Award	Lambda Literary Foundation
2004	''The Best American Sex Writing 2004''	Running Press
			International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Anthony Giffard "Make the Change" Award

Bibliography

In addition to his advice column, Savage has written four books, edited one book, and authored various op-ed pieces in ''The New York Times''.

References

External links

Savage Love – Savage's weekly sex advice column

* Savage's podcasts

It Gets Better Project

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The Cribs are an English three-piece rock band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr who was made a formal member of the group in 2008. Marr would remain as part of the band until 2011; his departure was officially announced on 11 April through the band's website. Despite returning to the original trio, the band currently enlists David Jones of Nine Black Alps as a second guitarist for live shows. The band, who first became active on the concert circuit in 2002, were initially tied to other like-minded UK bands of that time, most notably The Libertines, by a British music press that were looking for a 'British rearguard' to the wave of popular US alternative rock bands of the time. In 2008, ''Q'' magazine described the band as "The biggest cult band in the UK".

History

Formed in 2001, The Cribs began gigging locally and caught the eye of Leeds-based indie Squirrel Records; a handshake deal to release a one-off 7" was agreed soon after. Primarily a punk/garage/riot grrrl-based label, Squirrel was still in its infancy at this point, and the single "Baby Don't Sweat/You & I" (a split 7" with Jen Schande) didn't materialise until 2002. It was recorded by the band at their own Springtime Studios, a lo-fi all analogue set-up in an ancient mill.

The band has released four albums on the Wichita label - self-titled debut ''The Cribs'' in 2004, ''The New Fellas'' in 2005, ''Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever'' in 2007 and ''Ignore The Ignorant'' in 2009. Known for their staunchly purist approach to recording, the band have often been labeled as 'Lo-Fi'. Significantly, their debut album was recorded in seven days at London's Toe Rag Studio, onto 8-track. Toe Rag Studio is known for its vintage set-up which is as authentic to an original 1960s studio as is possible in the modern day. Parts of this record were taken from the original sessions the band recorded with Chicago-based avant-garde musician Bobby Conn.

''The New Fellas'', the band's second album release, was recorded with Edwyn Collins, the singer-songwriter and guitarist from Glasgow's influential Orange Juice in London at his own studio. Again, it was a comparatively unpolished record sonically, as both the producer Collins and the band themselves were achieving sounds similar to those heard on the Orange Juice records. This was, however, the intention and the reason the band and producer were put together. It was leaked onto the internet several months before the official release date, which hampered its chart placement – it has since however been certified a silver record by the BPI. B-sides from this period were self-produced by the band at their Springtime Studios.

''Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever'' saw the band finally take steps to progress forth from their 'lo-fi' roots, being recorded in Canada with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand as producer. The album was mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Foo Fighters). The album was released on 21 May 2007 and was preceded by a single, "Men's Needs", on 7 May, which reached #17.

Currently, the bands last seven chart-eligible single releases have charted inside the UK Top 40.

Their song "Martell" from ''The New Fellas'' release was featured in the Canadian Telus commercial.

The band appeared on ''Later with Jools Holland'' in May 2007, prior to the release of ''Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever'', where they played the songs "Men's Needs", "Our Bovine Public" and "I'm a Realist". "Men's Needs" is the band's biggest hit to date, reaching number 17 in the UK charts. The track has also picked up many accolades, including being named 3rd-best track of 2007 by ''NME'', Track of the Year 2007 by the Metro paper and finishing in the 100 best tracks in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in the USA.

Their song "Hey Scenesters!" was listed in NME's "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Of All Time". The band were one of only a few contemporary bands included in the list.

They appeared on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' on 18 July 2007, ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' on 27 July 2007 and ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' on 18 March 2008.

Recently, the band were personally invited to support the Sex Pistols at four of their five comeback concerts in Brixton in November. In November 2007, The Cribs were named as the headlining act of the 2008 NME Awards Tour. They were nominated for four NME awards: Best British Band, Best Live Act, Best Track ("Men's Needs") and Hero Of The Year (Ryan Jarman), but won none of these awards. In February 2008, they released "I'm A Realist"/"Bastards of Young", the latter a cover of a song by The Replacements.

Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths, would become a full-time member of the band in 2008. In an interview with ''Baeblemusic.com'', Ross Jarman said they met Marr at "the Glastonbury Festival and have been jamming together for the last couple years".

The band's fourth album ''Ignore The Ignorant'' was recorded with post-punk producer Nick Launay at Los Angeles' Seedy Underbelly studios and released in the United States on 7 September 2009, preceded by first single "Cheat On Me".

In December 2009, ''Ignore The Ignorant'' was placed at number 11 in Mojo magazine's "Albums Of The Year", and at number 7 in The Fly's "Albums Of The Year". At the same time, ''The New Fellas'' was named an "Album Of The Century" by ''Q''.

On 9 August 2010, Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe announced during his show that he would be playing a brand new Cribs song that night. The very next day, "Housewife" was released officially on iTunes. No one, from music industry insiders to the band's fans, had any idea that a new single was being geared up until that moment.

On 11 April 2011, the band confirmed that Marr would no longer be part of the band, while Marr also released a statement saying that he would be working on solo material. Earlier in the year, the band announced their plans to work on their fifth album after the summer's festival season.

On 20 July 2011, they were the first part of The Strokes at Le Zénith de Paris.

Live performances

Known for their raucous, unpredictable live shows the band have built-up a fanatical following due to a heavy touring schedule since the release of the first record. Their DIY ethic also led to them touring independently, when they were supposed to be off the road writing. Although this contributed to the band's success, and much larger venues, the band have always claimed to be more at home doing things in that way. On their first tour back after recording the third record in early 2007 the band returned to their roots and held some gigs in very small, intimate venues, including a show in their hometown at the Wakefield Escobar and another at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds (a venue they used to play at when they first started out). In June, they returned to Leeds at the climax of their full-size UK tour with two consecutive sold out nights at the University Refectory (the first band to do this since Ian Dury and the Blockheads 30 years ago). They subsequently came back and accomplished the same feat in 2008, after the show being presented with an award by the University for being the first band in its history to have '2 consecutive years of 2 consecutive nights of sell-out shows at Leeds University Refectory'.

In November 2007, they were invited by The Sex Pistols to support them for 4 nights at the Brixton Academy to mark the 30th anniversary of their Never Mind The Bollocks album.

In 2008, The Cribs headlined the Radio1/NME stage at the Leeds Festival, and the Reading Festival. The Cribs, along with The Subways and Frank Turner are also the only bands in the festivals history to progress through all the festivals stages in consecutive years, Carling Stage (2004), Radio1/NME Stage (2005), Main Stage (2006) - though The Cribs would trump them due to a performance they made on the Comedy Stage in 2002 and a headlining set on the Radio1/NME Stage in 2008. The band were announced as one of the acts to perform on the main stage in 2010.

On 8 December 2008, ''NME'' announced that the band would be playing a short UK tour to promote their latest album, due to be recorded shortly after. The tour visits a number of small intimate venues, including The Ritz in Manchester, London's Heaven, the ABC in Glasgow and St George's Hall in Bradford.

The band announced a UK tour to support the new album. It ran from 24 September 2009 to 15 October 2009 and takes in 14 venues. Afterwards, they had dates in Japan, New York, Los Angeles, and Europe (supporting Franz Ferdinand in the latter) before another four UK gigs in December, which saw them headline their first arena when they played Doncaster Dome. January 2010 saw a full tour of the U.S. and Canada. In February 2010, they toured Australia and New Zealand - playing in Wellington on 26 February and Auckland on the 27th. In June 2011, the band played its first shows in Brazil.

The Cribs have announced they will be playing at ''Get Loaded In The Park'' 2011 on Clapham Common, London on Sunday 12 June.

They will also be playing at Latitude Festival 2011 in Suffolk, England on Saturday 16 July at the Obelisk Arena. The played, on the 20the of July in Paris at the Zenith, before the Strokes.

Collaborations

In 2007 Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth collaborated with the band on their third album. The track "Be Safe" is a Ranaldo spoken word piece performed by the artist, and backed with The Cribs' music. They have a history of collaborations with artists such as Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), Jon Slade (Huggy Bear, Comet Gain), Bobby Conn (Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies), Bernard Butler (Suede, McAlmont and Butler), Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse), the aforementioned Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand).

Discography

Studio Albums

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Released: 1 July 2004

Label: Wichita Recordings

Formats: CD, Vinyl, Digital Download

|96 |align="left"| |- |2005 |align="left"| ''The New Fellas''

Released: 1 July 2005

Label: Wichita Recordings

Formats: CD, Vinyl, Digital Download

|78 |align="left"|

UK: Silver

|- |2007 |align="left"| ''Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever''

Released: 21 May 2007

Label: Wichita Recordings, Warner Bros. Records

Formats: CD, Vinyl, Digital Download

|13 |align="left"|

UK: Silver

|- |2009 |align="left"| ''Ignore The Ignorant''

Released: 7 September 2009

Label: Wichita Recordings, Warner Bros. Records

Formats: CD, Vinyl, Digital Download

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UK: Silver

|- |}

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions	Album
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	"Baby Don't Sweat"
"You Were Always The One"
"What About Me"
	"Hey Scenesters!"
"Mirror Kissers"
"Martell"
"You're Gonna Lose Us"
	"Men's Needs"
2008	"I'm A Realist" (Chart ineligible vinyl-only release)
	"Cheat On Me"
"We Share The Same Skies" (Chart ineligible vinyl-only release)
2010	"Housewife" (Unannounced surprise single. Vinyl and download only)

References

External links

The Cribs Official Site

The Cribs video interview

Cornell Daily Sun Interview

Johnny Marr reveals new Cribs album release date

Interview with Ryan and Gary Jarman, Sept 2009

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Name	Ryan Jarman
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Ryan James Jarman
Birth date	October 20, 1980
Origin	Wakefield, West Yorkshire England
Instrument	Guitar, Accordion, Organ, Piano, Violin
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Occupation	Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Years active	2000 - present
Label	Wichita Warner Bros. Records (USA)Universal Records(Philippines)
Associated acts	The CribsKate Nash
Notable instruments	Fender MustangEpiphone CoronetGibson ES-335
website	Official WebsiteMyspace }}

Ryan James Jarman (born 20 October 1980 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is the guitarist and vocalist with English rock band The Cribs.

The Cribs

Ryan formed The Cribs in the early 2000s with his identical twin brother Gary and younger brother Ross. The band are known for their short, punchy tunes with pop riffs and a lo-fi sound - influenced by bands like Huggy Bear, Comet Gain and Beat Happening. The Cribs have released four albums on the Wichita label, the first two being ''The Cribs'' (produced by Ed Deegan and Bobby Conn), and ''The New Fellas'' (produced by Edwyn Collins, singer in influential indie band Orange Juice).

The Cribs' third album, ''Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever'' was released on 21 May 2007; the record was produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand.

Their fourth studio album ''Ignore the Ignorant'', released on September 7, 2009 included ex The Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr; ''Ignore the Ignorant'' was produced by Nick Launey in Los Angeles.

Gear

Up until The Cribs' third album, Jarman played Fender Mustang guitars. He discovered the Gibson ES-335 in recording "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever," and took to using it almost exclusively live afterwards. He has now moved back to a Fender Mustang, in particular the Pawn Shop series with Fender wide range humbuckers

Although sparingly spotted with Vox amplifiers in the early days of The Cribs, Jarman has almost always played through Orange amps. Jarman has been quoted as saying that, out of habit, he runs both an AD30 combo and head at the same time with the combo on top of an Orange cabinet and the head hidden out of view . In situations where taking both would be impractical, he uses just the AD30HTC head and matching cabinet. For effects, his regular pedals are the Fulltone OCD and the Ibanez Tube Screamer, which was his pedal of choice until 2008.

Controversy

Jarman has made some memorable TV appearances, including music panel show ''Never Mind The Buzzcocks'', where he took credit for inspiring Live 8, by texting Bob Geldof and suggesting a Live Aid 2.

At the 2006 NME Awards, Jarman was seriously injured when he collected an award on behalf of Franz Ferdinand. In his haste to accept it, he jumped across the Kaiser Chiefs' table, breaking a large jar containing 'Flying Saucer' sweets and stabbing himself in the back on one of the shards. He spent 4 hours in hospital receiving 15 stitches before returning to party at the awards, where he went missing, only to be found by Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe bleeding heavily. Another ambulance was called and he returned to hospital, where he received both external and internal stitches to repair a rip to the membrane around the kidney that the first surgeon had missed and then discharged the next morning.

At Glastonbury 2007 Jarman declared; "The mainstream attitude of indie bands today is a bigger problem than global warming", a quote which led to a lengthy interview in the NME.

References

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