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Gareth Porter

  • Independent Investigative Journalist, Freelance
Arlington
Covers:  us relations with pakistan, iran nuclear, war in afghanistan, u.s. policy toward syria, us-iran diplomacy, us national security policy, us intelligence
Doesn't Cover: issues, security, other, than, national
Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state; author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).

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Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian who writes on national security issues. He has contributed regularly to Inter Press Service since early 2005 on US policy toward and relations with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and Syria. He received the Gellhorn Prize for journalism in 2012 for his coverage of the war in Afghanistan. Porter was Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service in 1971 while working on his Ph.D dissertation. He is the author of sever…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Bureau Chief in Saigon for Dispatch News Service in 1971

How is social media changing news?

By offering opportunities for journalist for other than corporate media to cover and interpret stories.

Why did you become a journalist?

Because I realized that connecting the dots and revealing stories that were not obvious or actually hidden is what I do best.