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Covers:  american politics, wars, british politics, middle east, arts and culture, Europe, Brexit, Kurdistan.
Host FRDH Podcast @ goldfarbpod.com. Substack frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com Hear/Read: BBC, NYTimes, Guardian, FT

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Michael Goldfarb’s Biography

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Michael Goldfarb is the host of the FRDH, First Rough Draft of History, podcast and director of Certain Height, a production company making documentaries for BBC Radio networks.
He is in an American based in London and has been a foreign correspondent for more than 30 years. He has reported from 25 countries on five continents.
Throughout the 1990s he was NPR's London correspondent and then later a roving documentary maker for the NPR Boston affiliate, WBUR. His byline has appeared i…

Michael Goldfarb’s Journalist Portfolio

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Ukraine's nationalist party embraces Nazi ideology

Ukraine's nationalist party embraces Nazi ideology

Echoes of Hitler, part two. Meet Svoboda, an up-and-coming party in Ukraine. It's nationalist, pro-Nazi, and …

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FEDERALISM - V1.1 by Michael Goldfarb

FEDERALISM - V1.1 by Michael Goldfarb

The F-word: A history of Federalism. As the euro crisis drags on it has become clear that a more "federal" Eu…

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Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far

Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far

Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far. The single currency's collapse was widely predicted a …

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This Is London - New York Times

This Is London - New York Times

London ANOTHER week, another flash of terrorism in my city, this one, thankfully, thwarted by the British sec…

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Inside Out Documentaries : British Jihad with Michael Goldfarb: WBUR Boston

Inside Out Documentaries : British Jihad with Michael Goldfarb: WBUR Boston

What is radical Islam's appeal to young British Muslims? Why did some September 11th hijackers find Britain a…

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England's shrinking middle class struggles to hold on

England's shrinking middle class struggles to hold on

An anxious middle class in the United Kingdom shares many of the same worries that keep the middle class in A…

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Making the Most$ of It: Treason in the Trump Era

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By Michael Goldfarb
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In May 1765, Patrick Henry rose to speak against the Stamp Act in Virginia’s House of Burgesses. The Stamp Act was a tax on British America’s colonists to help pay off the debts incurred during the French and Indian aka Seven Years’ War. Henry thought the tax was a form of tyranny as the Virginia legislature had had no vote on it. It was imposed by the British Parliament and King George III.
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Fighting Back: A Bad Week for Populists

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By Michael Goldfarb
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Standards of institutional journalism in America have slipped dramatically over the last decade as the past week reminded people. It began with hypersalivation over the prospect of yet another DSA member, Francesca Hong, winning the Wisconsin Democratic primary for Governor. Polls said she was a mortal lock. In the event, she lost narrowly to David Crowley, chief executive of Milwaukee county, an African-American regarded as a centrist.
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Michael Goldfarb: Doctors Without Borders must confront its ideological blind spots Original

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By Michael Goldfarb
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The organization has met the low bar of condemning October 7, but I have not seen it call Hamas to account in even the mildest terms A man who was shot in his leg during protests at the Gaza/Israel border fence enters a medical clinic operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on May 13, 2018 in Gaza City, Gaza. On Oct.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering HS football & wrestling for Main Line Times while still in high school.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, when I was a temp secretary, never in a news room

How is social media changing news?

Adding one more knowledge set to be examined with professional skepticism. Who's information is trustworthy?

Awards

DuPont-Columbia Award

2002

For radio documentary Surviving Torture: Inside Out

Overseas Press Club of America

2004 - Lowell Thomas Award for Radio

For an hour-long documentary called, British Jihad: Inside Out. The documentary looked at why Britain had become a European center for jihadi recruitment.