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Dave Lindorff

(He/Him)
Ambler
Covers:  international politics, environment/climate crisis, US empire, health care politics, criminal injustice, civil liberties, Social Security and Medicare, China, nuclear war and weapons,economics
Doesn't Cover: fashion, lifestyle stories, investing,

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Dave Lindorff’s Biography

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I'm an independent investigative journalist and author, and most recxently a filmmaker, and am founder of the collectively owned journalists' news site ThisCantBeHappening.net. I have been a professional journalist since 1972 when I began working as a reporter at the Middletown Press in Connecticut. I have a BA in Chinese from Wesleyan University ('72), a MS in Journalism from Columbia U's J-School ('75), and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in business and economic journalism at Columbia ('78-79).…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering three small towns at the mouth of the Connecticut River in a bureau of the Middletown (CT) Press (1972-3)

Have you ever used a typewriter?

From day one of my first job. Had to learn to type before going to my job interview.

How is social media changing news?

definitely for the worse. Journalism needs editors. Unchecked "news" that has not standard of truth is not journalism. it's like gossip.

Awards

Izzy Award for Outstanding Independent Media

2019 - investigative journalism

'Izzy' Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism presented by the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca University, Ithaca, NY

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