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

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Hooman Majd was born Tehran, Iran in 1957, is an Iranian-American writer based in New York City. He was raised in family who were involved in diplomatic services and attended boarding schools in England. He has finished his college education in the United States where he currently resides. He has written for ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Salon'', ''GQ'', the ''New York Observer'', and ''Interview'', where he is also a contributing editor. His book ''The Ayatollah Begs to Differ'' was published by Doubleday in the Fall of 2008.

References

External links

http://www.hoomanmajd.com/Hooman/Home_khanh.html

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Wayne Madsen (born April 25, 1954) is a Washington, D.C.-based author, columnist, and self-described investigative journalist specializing in intelligence and international affairs. He has written for ''The Village Voice'', ''The Progressive'', ''CounterPunch'', CorpWatch, ''Multinational Monitor'', ''CovertAction Quarterly'', ''In These Times'', and ''The American Conservative''. His columns have appeared in The ''Miami Herald'', ''Houston Chronicle'', ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Columbus Dispatch'', ''Sacramento Bee'', and ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', among others. He is the author of the blog ''Wayne Madsen Report''.

He has been described by critics including Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic Monthly, CBS, and Salon as a conspiracy theorist.

Background and Early Life

Madsen was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania on 28 April 1954 to an American mother and a Danish mariner who had served on a Danish merchant vessel that shipped arms to Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War and who later joined the International Brigades fighting against General Franco. His grandmother, who emigrated to the U.S. with his father after World War II was Victoria Madsen, a Danish communist party official and newspaper reporter who, during World War II was a leader in the Danish resistance movement which was involved in organising the smuggling of Danish Jews to Sweden. In the 1950s Victoria Madsen was deported by the FBI after attempting to organise hospital employees into a union.

Madsen attended the University of Mississippi where he joined the Navy ROTC.

Career

U.S. Navy

Upon graduation from University of Mississippi, he joined the U.S. Navy. He was commissioned an ensign and underwent training at the Surface Warfare School. Later he was assigned to anti-submarine acoustic sensing operations. He subsequently received a Navy Unit Commendation for being part of the team that found the first acoustic signature of a Soviet Alfa class submarine. He was later given a bad fitness report by his executive officer, Lt. Cmdr. Marney Finch.

His new commanding officer at Coos Bay transferred him to Washington D.C. He resigned from the Navy in 1985 as a lieutenant, having been passed over for promotion. Madsen described himself as the "most senior lieutenant in the Navy" at the time of his resignation and has blamed his lack of advance on a powerful group of pedophiles hidden in the top of the U.S. Navy ranks. Madsen notes that independent investigations into illegal homosexual activity in the federal government by other journalists were eventually published by the Washington Times in 1989.

In 1984 he "benefitted from the 1983 bombing of the Computer Area in the Washington Navy Yard" and the 1984 White House screening of the movie War Games which he suggests prompted President Reagan into putting money into computer security. He was loaned in 1984 to the NSA by the Navy to work in computer security.

In 2005 Madsen began working as a free-lance journalist, and publishing his own news blog. His columns have appeared in The Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Reporting and Opinions

In 2000, Madsen expressed concern over the Carnivore Internet information monitoring program of the FBI and Project Echelon of the National Security Agency which he said were threats to the privacy rights of Americans. In 2002 he suggested to the Guardian newspaper that the United States Navy had aided in an attempted overthrow of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. In January 2002 he expressed concern over the possible use of torture by the United States government against suspected terorrists, as well as possible plans to use the military in domestic law enforcement, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

In 2003 he said that he had uncovered information linking the September 11 attacks to the government of Saudi Arabia as well as to Bush administration. In 2005, he wrote than an unidentified former CIA agent claimed that the USS Cole was actually hit by a Popeye cruise missile launched from an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine.

In 2005 he said that the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, had pressured American politicians to stay away from protests against the Iraq war.

In 2006 he criticized the Iraq Study Group, saying: :"I think it is a whitewash group and nothing will come of it, except that they may concoct some reason for the US to stay the course in Iraq, with perhaps a little more international support, like Germany and Canada. The commission is a whitewash because the members are all consummate Washington insiders, many of whom have a political and financial stake in the successful outcome of the war. The longer the war goes on the more money they make."

Later that year he criticized the movie industry for indirectly causing suffering in Africa by promoting diamonds in movies like ''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' and ''Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend''. He included Leonardo DiCaprio, whose film ''Blood Diamond'' dealt with the issue, as well as Russell Simmons who is selling a line of "nonconflict diamonds." Madsen said about them, "It's a p.r. campaign. They should be saying, 'Don't buy diamonds at all.'"

In a 2008 ''ArabNews'' article, Madsen is quoted as suggesting that the criminal prosecution of New York State governor Eliot Spitzer was partly due to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

In July 2009, Madsen released a report claiming the existence of a Q Group within the National Security Agency. This unit is, according to Madsen, tasked with concealing US government involvement in 9/11.

In 2010, Madsen reported in the Pakistan Daily on claims by General Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistans Intelligence Service, that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, had been conducting false flag operations in Pakistan that were blamed on the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The claims were supported by General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Pakistani Army Chief of Staff, who claimed that former President Pervez Musharraf approved the operations. Several terrorist attacks in Pakistan have been blamed on Blackwater by Pakistani Islamic leaders and Blackwater has been accused of smuggling weapons and munitions into Pakistan.

Obama birth certificate

Also on June 9, 2008 he reported that unnamed "GOP dirty tricks operatives" had found a Kenyan birth certificate registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr., on August 4, 1961. "However, the registration is a common practice in African countries whose citizens abroad have families with foreign nationals." This birth certificate was a cornerstone of the "Kenyan Born" subset of the so-called birther conspiracy theories, and Madsen's article was cited in a Washington state petition challenging Obama's eligibility to serve.

2009 swine flu man-made

On April 25, 2009, Madsen suggested that some unidentified UN World Health Organization officials and scientists believed the 2009 new H1N1 strain of swine flu virus appeared to be the product of U.S. military sponsored gene splicing, as opposed to natural processes, citing as evidence the presence of genetic material from strains not occurring in pigs (such as bird flu and different forms of human flu), the lack of transmission from pigs to humans and the flu disproportionately affecting young adults when compared to other strains of flu. The virus was later declared by the CDC to be a combination of four different viruses: North American swine flu, North American avian flu, human H1N1 flu and a swine flu strain found in Asia and Europe. While it can not be ruled out that the virus was created in a research laboratory or vaccine factory, another explanation is that the virus is the "long predicted" result of modern farming techniques. New Scientist magazine cited the example of a H1N2 influenza pandemic in the 1990s that only affected pigs in the United Kingdom. This subtype of the H1N2 was also a reassortment (mix) of swine, human and avian strains.

Bibliography

''Jaded Tasks—Brass Plates, Black Ops & Big Oil: The Blood Politics of Bush & Co.'' (TrineDay, 2006) ISBN 0-9752906-9-X

''America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II'' with John Stanton (Dandelion Books, 2003) ISBN 1893302296

''Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden'' (foreword) Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie (Nation Books, 2002) ISBN 1560254149

''Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (African Studies)'' (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999) ISBN 0773480021

''Handbook of Personal Data Protection'' (New York: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 1992) (reference book on international data protection law) ISBN 1561590460

References

External links

Wayne Madsen Report

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Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. Prins is known primarily for her whistleblower-like book, ''It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street'', for her views on the U.S. economy, for her published spending figures on federal programs and initiatives related to the 2008 bailout, and for her advocacy for the reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall Act and regulatory reform of the financial industry.

Book review

Author Jim Hightower said, “Nomi Prins knows the mind-set, knows how to read spreadsheets, knows the people, and knows Wall Street’s games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells.”

Works

Prins' articles have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Fortune'', ''Newsday'', ''Mother Jones'', Slate.com, ''The Guardian'', ''The Nation'', ''The American Prospect'', Alternet, ''Left Business Observer'', ''Cineaste'', ''La Vanguardia'', and other publications.

Books

''It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street'' - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9/22/09); ISBN 0470529598; ISBN 978-0470529591.

''Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America'' - Publisher: New Press (8/1/06); ISBN 1595580638; ISBN 978-1595580634. An account of corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. This book was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and The Library Journal.

''Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking your Pocket (whether you voted for them or not)'' - Publisher: Polipoint Press (9/1/06); ISBN 0976062186; ISBN 978-0976062189. Catalogs her travels around the USA talking to people about their economic lives.

Notes

External links

Nomi Prins Website

Video: Tavis Smiley Interviews Journalist Nomi Prins

Video: Obama Banking Too Much on Banks, DemocracyNow!

Video: Wall Street's Game, Main Street's Pain

Video: Recovery is not even on horizon

Video: Nomi Prins at The Strand, Demos

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Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies. His writings and speeches describe a model of false flag terror operations by a rogue network in the military/intelligence sector working with moles in the private sector and in corporate media, and locates such contemporary false flag operations in a historical context stretching back in the English speaking world to at least the "gunpowder plot" in England in 1605. He also maintains that "The notion of anthropogenic global warming is a fraud."

Education

Tarpley was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1946. He received a BA degree ''summa cum laude'' in English and Italian from Princeton University in 1966. While a student at this university he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He furthermore was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin in Italy. Tarpley also obtained a MA degree in humanities from Skidmore College.

Career

Tarpley was on the editorial board of the National Caucus of Labor Committees' journal, ''The Campaigner'', in 1971, according to its masthead.

As a journalist living in Europe in the 1980s, Tarpley wrote a study commissioned by a committee of the Italian Parliament on the assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro. The study claimed that the assassination was a false flag operation orchestrated by the masonic lodge Propaganda Due with the cooperation of senior members of Italian government secret services but blamed on the Red Brigades.

Tarpley was president of the Schiller Institute of the United States in the 1980s and in 1993. In 1986 Tarpley attempted to run on Lyndon LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party platform in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his nominating petitions. He was a frequent host of "The LaRouche Connection" which its producer LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service describes as "a news and information cable television program."

Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin, ("history editor of Executive Intelligence Review") a 1992 book on George H. W. Bush, ''George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography,'' which was published by Executive Intelligence Review, run by Lyndon LaRouche. He has expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance. He gained experience as a political operative during his years with the LaRouche movement but broke away sometime after 1995.

In 2005, Tarpley published ''9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA''. He speaks at length about the themes in the book during an interview in the film ''Oil, Smoke, Mirrors''.

Since March, 2006, Tarpley has had a weekly online talk radio show called World Crisis Radio, currently hosted on GCNLive.com. Tarpley is a member of the "world anti-imperialist conference" Axis for Peace, of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and of a research ''Netzwerk'' of German 9/11 authors founded in September 2006. He is featured in the film, Zero: an investigation into 9/11 (2007–2008).

Tarpley is a critic of the Dalai Lama; in 2010 he told the state-funded ''Russia Today'' that "pre-1959 Tibet ... was probably the closest thing to hell on earth that you had ... social reform was impossible." In the interview he criticizes US funding of pro-Dalai Lama organizations, which he says amounts to US$2 million per year, saying "this is a bad deal for the American taxpayers."

Bibliography

''Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro?'' (Who Killed Aldo Moro?), a study commissioned by a member of the Italian government and published in Rome in 1978 The Larouchian, Partito Operaio Europeo http://www.movisol.org/moro.htm, which broke open the affiliation of the Red Brigades with the neofascist lodge P2.

''George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'' (1992) (co-authored with Anton Chaitkin, son of the lawyer who indicted Prescott Bush under the Trading with the Enemy Act for collaboration with Nazi Germany.) Reprinted 2004, ISBN 0-930852-92-3.

''Against Oligarchy'' (1996)

''Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide through the Worst Financial Crisis in Human History'' (1999); updated edition, 2009.

'' 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA - Myth of the 21st Century'' (2005), Foreword by Thierry Meyssan, ISBN 0-930852-31-1, Fourth edition ISBN 0-930852-37-0 (April 2007).

* Version française: ''La Terreur Fabriquée, Made in USA : 11 Septembre, le mythe du XXIe siècle'' (Sept. 2006). ISBN 2952557144

*In Italiano: ''La Fabbrica del Terrore'' (Sept. 2007). ISBN 978-88-87307-36-6

*En Español: ''11-S, El Falso Terrorismo'' Jan. 2008 ISBN 0-930852-98-2.

''Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate'' (Apr. 2008) ISBN 0-930852-88-5.

*Deutsche Fassung: ''Barack Obama: Wie ein US-Präsident gemacht wird'' (Aug. 2008) ISBN 978-3-938516-74-4.

*Japanese Edition: ''Obama: Dangerous Geometry'' (Nov. 2008) ISBN 4880862398

*''Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography'' (Aug. 2008) ISBN 0930852818; Japanese edition, March 2009.

References

External links

Tarpley's Website

Tarpley's Show on the Genesis Network

Ground Zero Grassy Knoll - Feature article in New York Magazine (March 20, 2006)

Publisher's web site

Amazon.com's Webster Griffin Tarpley page

Audio and Video Links:

Webster Tarpley lecture and interview videos

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