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'''Abby Martin''' is a journalist for [[RT]]. She featured on their 'Breaking The Set' program.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset</ref>
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'''Abby Martin''' is a journalist who presents ''The Empire Files'' for the [[Venezuela]]n broadcaster [[teleSUR]].
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Previously, she featured on [[RT]]'s 'Breaking the Set' programme.<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset "Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time"]''</ref> Before hosting her own show, Martin had worked for two years as a correspondent for RT America.
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She is also an artist and activist, and helped found the citizen journalism website ''Media Roots''.<ref>''[https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-273615256.html "Media Roots.(The Media Beat)(on citizen journalism)"]''</ref>
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==''The Empire Files''==
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In 2015 Abby Martin launched ''The Empire Files''. Martin directs the show, and journalist and activist [[Michael Prysner]] produces it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theempirefiles.tv/|title=The Empire Files|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
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''The Empire Files'' is hosted by [[teleSUR]], which is funded by several [[Latin America]]n governments, but is editorially independent. Martin said:
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:"The show is totally independent of teleSUR... We merely sell them the content; they have zero control over anything we do".
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Martin and Prysner received death threats for their reporting on protests in [[Venezuela]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/venezuela-abby-martin-mike-prysner-lies-death-threats|title=Venezuelan Opposition Spreads Lies About U.S. Journalists, Inciting Violence, Death Threats|last=Norton|first=Ben|date=3 June 2017|website=AlterNet|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
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For ''The Empire Files'', Abby Martin also reported from the [[Palestinian]] territories, the West Bank and the [[Amazon]] rainforest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40314-empire-files-silencing-palestine-with-prison-and-repression|title=Empire Files: Silencing Palestine With Prison and Repression|last=|first=|date=21 April 2017|website=Truthout|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=17027|title=The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon - Inside the Killzone|last=|first=|date=16 August 2016|website=The Real News|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
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==Videos==
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9BoZmuhDKA Empire Files: Constituent Assembly Dictatorship or Democracy in Venezuela?]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6yFP8HjVQ&t=839s Empire Files: Abby Martin Meets the Venezuelan Opposition]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk1qlKu_RJo Empire Files: Venezuela Economy Minister—Sabotage, Not Socialism, is the Problem]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYWrPiUeWY Empire Files: Abby Martin in Venezuela - Supermarkets to Black Markets]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4PpOtRcA7Q Empire Files: Head of Venezuela National Guard on Insurgency & US Threats]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YtaYX7Rstc Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel’s White Supremacy]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT5L4YU_Fl4 Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvNZisaB8E Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RojtOW2UE Abby Martin - Israel Started Palestinian Genocide Right From the Beginning !]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXje-RM314g Inside Saudi Arabia - Empire Files With Abby Martin]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ht02fXvL0 The Empire Files: 9/11 & the Belligerent Empire]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5p2Gwq42k The Empire Files: Examining the Syria War Chessboard]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6Qr7uuMy8 Empire Files: US-Russia Relations in "Most Dangerous Moment"]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A Empire Files: Post-Soviet Russia, Made in the U.S.A.]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgig1QVU2lY The Empire Files: 'This Ship is Sinking' Says Former Bush Official]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZLnfKSa_k The Empire Files: Noam Chomsky on Electing The President of an Empire]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQL-TAT5Oj8 The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSRWXCosxc The Empire Files: The Real House of Saud]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YtaYX7Rstc&t=2s Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel’s White Supremacy]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtumGk0E6Q The Empire Files: The U.S. School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXje-RM314g&t=4s Inside Saudi Arabia - Empire Files With Abby Martin]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzv51pQ904 The Empire Files: America's Unofficial Religion, The War on an Idea]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxrNxVtLOkU The Empire Files: An Unparalleled Act of Police Terror]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HelSaMSy8HY Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_PLCC6jeI Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes What Hillary Clinton Really Represents]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7hEfgxSJ44 The Empire Files: Abby Martin with Dr. Jill Stein - Symptoms of a Sick Society]
 
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(journalist)
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BornAbigail Suzanne Martin
6 September 1984
Oakland, California, U.S.
Alma materSan Diego State University
Member ofDisinfo.com
Interest of"Philip Cross"

Abby Martin is a journalist who presents The Empire Files for the Venezuelan broadcaster teleSUR.

Previously, she featured on RT's 'Breaking the Set' programme.[1] Before hosting her own show, Martin had worked for two years as a correspondent for RT America.

She is also an artist and activist, and helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots.[2]

The Empire Files

In 2015 Abby Martin launched The Empire Files. Martin directs the show, and journalist and activist Michael Prysner produces it.[3]

The Empire Files is hosted by teleSUR, which is funded by several Latin American governments, but is editorially independent. Martin said:

"The show is totally independent of teleSUR... We merely sell them the content; they have zero control over anything we do".

Martin and Prysner received death threats for their reporting on protests in Venezuela.[4]

For The Empire Files, Abby Martin also reported from the Palestinian territories, the West Bank and the Amazon rainforest.[5][6]

Videos

 

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References

  1. "Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time"
  2. "Media Roots.(The Media Beat)(on citizen journalism)"
  3. "The Empire Files". Retrieved 6 June 2017.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  4. Norton, Ben (3 June 2017). "Venezuelan Opposition Spreads Lies About U.S. Journalists, Inciting Violence, Death Threats". AlterNet. Retrieved 6 June 2017.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  5. "Empire Files: Silencing Palestine With Prison and Repression". Truthout. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  6. "The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon - Inside the Killzone". The Real News. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").