Dave Lindorff
 Dave Lindorff    (journalist, author) | |
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| Born | 1949 |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Member of | War Is A Crime |
| Interests | • fake news • MICC |
American reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for CounterPunch | |
Dave Lindorff is an American reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for CounterPunch and a contributor to Tarbell.org, The Nation, FAIR and Salon.com. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004,[1] 2011[2] and 2012.[3]
Education
Born in 1949, Lindorff graduated from Wesleyan University in 1972 with a BA in Chinese language. He then received an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975. A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, 1991–92 and Taiwan, 2004), he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 1978–79.
Reporting
Lindorff is founding editor of the collectively run journalism news site ThisCantBeHappening![4], along with six other: John Grant, Jess Guh, Alfredo Lopez, Ron Ridenour, and Linn Washington, Jr., political cartoonist Dave Kiphuft and resident poet Gary Lindorff. The news site, since its founding in June 2010, has won seven Project Censored awards for its coverage (six of them for Lindorff's articles, the other to Washington for his work), and was labeled a "threat" in a memo TCBH! obtained through a FOIA filing with the Department of Homeland Security, which was sent to all U.S. Fusion Centers warning that ThisCantBeHappeing.net had published an article by Lindorff exposing the central role played by DHS in orchestrating the nationwide city-by-city violent police crackdown on the Occupy Movement in late 2011[5]. Lindorff responded by including on the site's home page Masthead the phrase: "The only news organization in the US to be labeled a threat by the Department of Homeland Security".[6]
In 2019, he was a winner of an "Izzy" for "Outstanding Independent Journalism" awarded by the Park Center for Independent Media. The prize, honored his career work as an investigative journalist and especially his December 2018 Nation magazine cover story, "Exclusive: the Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed," which showed how the Pentagon has been simply making up the numbers in over two decades of annual financial reports submitted to Congress in "support" of ever-higher funding requests for each next year's budget. [7]
References
- ↑ Project Censored: #24: Reinstating the Draft.
- ↑ Project Censored: #25: Extension of DU to Libya
- ↑ Project Censored: #16: Incidents Raise Suspicions on Motive: Killing of Journalists by US Forces a Growing Problem
- ↑ http://www:ThisCantBeHappening.net
- ↑ https://thiscantbehappening.net/department-of-homeland-security-brands-thiscantbehappening-a-threat/
- ↑ http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
- ↑ https://theithacan.org/news/park-center-for-independent-media-holds-11th-annual-izzy-awards/ shttps://theithacan.org/news/park-center-for-independent-media-holds-11th-annual-izzy-awards/
