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60-524: Truthout's senior leadership team is composed of Executive Director Ziggy West Jeffery; Editor-in-Chief Negin Owliaei; and Publisher Saima Desai. The organization’s annual operating budget is approximately $ 2.2 million as of 2021. On May 13, 2006, after Jason Leopold posted on Truthout that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury investigating the Plame affair , Rove spokesman Mark Corallo denied

120-914: A 2024 Anthem Award. In March 2024, through its Center for Grassroots Journalism, Truthout co-founded Media Against Apartheid and Displacement (MAAD), a website that serves as a hub for articles published by progressive media organizations about the Israel-Hamas war and about Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation . Reporting and analysis is from an anti-Zionist perspective. The project includes articles published by Prism, Truthout, In These Times , Mondoweiss , Institute for Palestine Studies , Haymarket Books , The Real News Network , The Forge, Waging Nonviolence, The Dig, The Kansas City Defender , Briarpatch , Baltimore Beat , Hammer & Hope, Scalawag , Convergence Magazine, and Analyst News. The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism coordinates

180-703: A collaboration between BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The FinCEN Files also won The Tom Renner award in 2021. Leopold was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the Newseum Institute in 2016. His stories have appeared three times on Project Censored's top-25 under-reported stories of the year: once in 2004, for a story he wrote about an alleged secret meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger had with Ken Lay prior to

240-484: A diverse range of social justice issues. The thirteenth annual Izzy Award was awarded to nonprofit news outlet Truthout, journalist Liliana Segura, senior reporter at The Intercept and journalist Tim Schwab, writing in The Nation. Dahr Jamail was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media for his reporting on climate change and other environmental issues. The judges wrote: "There

300-628: A document for the committee's investigation. In 2011, Truthout featured a story by Leopold about religious material used by the US Air Force in the training of officers on the ethics of nuclear war. The material, obtained by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation from Freedom of Information Act requests, includes slides quoting the Bible supporting the act of war and characters from the Bible fighting what

360-721: A document for the committee's investigation. In 2011, Truthout suffered a hacking breach in which ten days of articles were deleted. In 2013, Truthout journalist Mike Ludwig unearthed with a Freedom of Information Act request with the Interior Department information that revealed that fracking technology was being used on offshore oil rigs in the ecologically sensitive Santa Barbara Channel . Coastal conservationists were alarmed, and environmental groups sprang into action, generating protests and broad public discussion about offshore fracking. At one point, lawsuits filed by environmental groups forced federal officials to place

420-410: A good hard look at it and make sure it reflected views of modern society." In 2010 Leopold and psychologist and human rights worker Jeffrey Kaye requested information on the use of psycho-active drugs on Guantanamo captives . Captives and former captives had been reporting medical staff collaborating with interrogators to drug captives with powerful psychoactive drugs prior to interrogation since

480-530: A kick out of the fictitious account and e-mailed Luskin to see how he felt after such a long day". Leopold's investigative reporting on safety issues at BP has been cited by CNN , 60 Minutes and the Los Angeles Times . 60 Minutes cited a report by Leopold, published at Truthout as a source for their episode on May 16, 2010, about the BP oil spill and the whistleblower who was warning about

540-455: A member of the advisory board for Waging Nonviolence. Schenwar is the co-author, with Victoria Law , of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (The New Press, 2020) . The book, which contains a foreword by Michelle Alexander , details the dangerous ramifications of prison and policing reforms such as electronic monitoring, community policing, coercive drug treatment, and psychiatric hospitals. It also examines

600-572: A moratorium on offshore fracking in the channel while regulators reviewed the practice and their rules for making it safe. In 2014, the EPA issued a new rules requiring offshore drillers to disclose fracking chemicals they dump into the ocean off the California coast. In 2016, Dahr Jamail and Truthout released Navy documents outlining plans for combat training exercises along vast non-military areas of Washington state coastline. The documents showed

660-468: A number of decarceration campaigns, as well as restorative and transformative justice efforts, happening around the country. It focuses on intersectional projects that emphasize connection, community-building, and racial justice. Schenwar also co-edited Truthout's anthology , Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States . This book's essays chronicle

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720-517: A piece based in part on Leopold's work, also had to backpedal, acknowledging that he should not have cited the e-mail. Salon removed the story from its website and said that Leopold had plagiarized text from the FT , but the article remains in the Nexis archives. Leopold said he had slightly misquoted the email, which should have read "Close a bigger deal. Hide the loss before the 1Q". White denied sending

780-581: A possible blowout at another BP deepwater drilling site. Digital Journal wrote up the story and also cited the Truthout report. CNN's Randi Kaye in an article also cited a report by Leopold on Mark Kovak's inside knowledge about the safety concerns at the Prudhoe Bay , Alaska BP oil field. On July 8, 2010, Los Angeles Times reporter Kim Murphy cited Leopold's investigation into neglect and cost-cutting practices at Alyeska Pipeline in her report on

840-562: A prior drug addiction , bouts with mental illness and suicide attempts. He also disclosed how he lied to employers about a criminal conviction for larceny that took place when Leopold was in his 20s and working in the record business. Publishers Weekly wrote of News Junkie that "While there's a lot of lying admitted to in this scrappy memoir, from Leopold's hiding of his criminal past to his playing of sources to get his scoops, it's (probably) not an untruthful memoir—indeed, it might become required reading for aspiring journalists." The book

900-524: A senior editor and reporter, a position he left after three years on February 19, 2008, to co-found the web-based political magazine The Public Record , Leopold's profile page on The Public Record now says he is Editor-at-Large. Leopold returned to Truthout as Deputy Managing Editor in October 2009 and was made lead investigative reporter in 2012 before leaving Truthout in May 2013. He makes extensive use of

960-585: A sister named Keeley Schenwar. Keeley like Maya was also a prison activist, and had written about her own experience as an incarcerated mother in prison. Keeley Schenwar passed away from a heroin overdose on February 4, 2020. Truthout , the online publication of which Maya Schenwar is the Editor-in-Chief, holds an annual memorial essay prize, entitled the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. The prize seeks to honor

1020-528: A story that was presented as an update to the January 2019 story. The April story referenced a 12-page memo submitted by Cohen's legal counsel to Congress that said President Trump "encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower project contacts ended as of January 31, 2016 using 'code' language." Subsequently, on April 18, 2019, the original Cohen report was updated to state that the "Mueller report found that Trump did not direct Michael Cohen to lie." Leopold

1080-552: A wide range of public speaking , both in the United States and internationally, at universities, community centers, conferences, prisons, bookstores, and other venues. In February 2016, Schenwar presented a TEDx talk in Baltimore on prison abolition . Schenwar is also a board member of Love & Protect, an organization that supports those who identify as women and gender non-conforming persons of color who are criminalized or harmed by state and interpersonal violence, and of

1140-654: Is an Emmy nominated producer, the recipient of the FOI Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors and a member of the team awarded the Tom Renner Award in 2018 from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a member of the team named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 2021 as one of the lead reporters on the FinCEN Files investigation,

1200-631: Is an urgency and passion in Dahr Jamail's reporting that is justified by the literally earth-changing subject matter. And it's supported by science and on-the-scene sources, whether covering ocean pollution , sea level rise, deafening noise pollution or Fukushima radiation." Jamail produces a monthly wrap-up of the latest climate research and trends – "Climate Disruption Dispatches". A joint Truthout and Earth Island Journal investigation "America's Toxic Prisons" by Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren, and Maureen Nandini Mitra won awards in two categories of

1260-401: Is the editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief of Truthout and a writer focused on prison-related topics. She is the co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better, and a co-editor of the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in

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1320-523: The Enron collapse, due to questions about the validity of an e-mail and allegations that portions of the article had not been adequately credited to the Financial Times . The disputed e-mail was said to have been from White, telling the recipient to "Close a bigger deal to hide the loss." According to Salon, Leopold's article "used seven full paragraphs amounting to 480 words, virtually verbatim, from

1380-614: The Freedom of Information Act to research stories. Leopold was the journalist who forced the release of all of Hillary Clinton's emails through the Freedom of Information Act. He was identified by the Transactional Access Clearinghouse as "by far the most active individual FOIA litigator in the United States today." He has written stories on a many subjects including in the past decades on BP , Enron ,

1440-637: The Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Awards for her columns on mass incarceration, the death penalty, and solitary confinement. Truthout's executive director is Ziggy West Jeffery and the editor-in-chief is Negin Owliaei. Truthout's Board of Directors comprises Maya Schenwar , McMaster University professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux , policy director Robert Naiman , and Lewis R. Gordon . Truthout's Board of Advisors includes Mark Ruffalo , Dean Baker , Richard D. Wolff , William Ayers , Mark Weisbrot . The late Howard Zinn

1500-671: The 2018 San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards. The investigation won second place in the Magazines category for environment/nature reporting and investigative reporting. In 2012, Truthout journalist Gareth Porter was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for his work uncovering the Obama administration's military strategy in Afghanistan. "In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away

1560-913: The California Energy Crisis, the Bush administration's torture policies, and the Plame affair . His pieces have been published in The Guardian , Asia Times , the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , CBS MarketWatch , The Nation , and Utne Reader . He has also written about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as The Guardian , Alternet , CounterPunch , Common Dreams , The Huffington Post , Political Affairs Magazine , The Raw Story , Scoop , ZNet and others. Leopold began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for The Reporter Dispatch newspaper in White Plains, New York. He became

1620-786: The Center’s director. Explaining why Truthout founded the Center, Schenwar explains, “[W]e want to exist as a publication, but we can’t do it alone. We don’t want to be anyone’s sole news source. We want to have this vibrant ecosystem of different publications that are helping enrich people’s understanding of the world, and propel them toward action on all these different fronts.” Through the Center, Truthout also collaborates on editorial projects with other progressive news organizations, including Zealous, Teen Vogue , Inquest, and Deceleration. A 2023 series created in collaboration between Truthout, Zealous, and Teen Vogue about alternatives to incarceration won

1680-540: The Chicago Community Bond Fund, a revolving fund and advocacy organization that pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois . Previous to her work at Truthout, Schenwar was a contributing editor at Punk Planet magazine and served as media coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She served as chair of the coordinating committee for The Media Consortium, and is

1740-511: The FT. There were two attributions to the FT within the passage, but they appeared to apply only to the specific sentences that contained them, not to the full passage." Leopold later admitted that he had been careless by not providing the FT with additional credit, but insisted that Salon ' s editors had all the relevant documents, including the disputed White email, before the story was published. Paul Krugman of The New York Times , who wrote

1800-486: The Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize for personal essays by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors. The prize is named after Truthout’s editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief Maya Schenwar ’s sister, who was incarcerated on and off over the course of 14 years before she died of an overdose in 2020. Keeley Schenwar wrote for Truthout about her incarceration, including about giving birth while in prison. Each year, two winners are awarded prizes of $ 3,000 each, and

1860-604: The Leopold article, writing that Leopold is a "nut with Internet access" and that "thirty-five reporters called [Rove's defense attorney] Luskin or Corallo to ask about the Truthout report." According to Rove, "[Special Counsel] Fitzgerald got a kick out of the fictitious account and e-mailed Luskin to see how he felt after such a long day." Jason Leopold continued to write investigative pieces for Truthout through 2014; he joined Vice News that year. In 2009, Truthout became

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1920-466: The Moscow tower project, a construction deal at the heart of an investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III . The report attracted attention because such an action by Trump would constitute a felony. Democratic congressmen publicly mused impeachment . The report came under scrutiny, however, after Mueller's press broke precedent by issuing a statement that said some details attributed to

1980-606: The President directed or aided Cohen's false testimony." Ben Smith, then-editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, responded by releasing notes from the FBI interview with Cohen, which said "Cohen told OSC (Mueller's office) he was asked to lie by DJT/DJT Jr., lawyers." Smith said, "Our sources — federal law enforcement officials — interpreted the evidence Cohen presented as meaning that the president 'directed' Cohen to lie. We now know that Mueller did not." On April 5, 2019, Leopold co-authored

2040-1107: The United States . She has written about prison issues for Truthout, The New York Times , The Guardian , The Nation , Ms. Magazine , and other publications. Schenwar is the editor-in-chief of the independent journalism organization Truthout. In addition to Truthout, she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The Star-Ledger, and many other publications. Coverage of Schenwar’s work and interviews with Schenwar have appeared in C-SPAN, Democracy Now, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Library Journal , The Thom Hartmann Program , Talking Points Memo , Wisconsin Public Radio , Minnesota Public Radio , The Majority Report , The Utne Reader , In These Times , The Sun magazine , YES! Magazine , The Real News Network , TakePart Live , Marfa Public Radio , AlterNet , ColorLines , Bitch Magazine , Feministing , Citizen Radio, Solitary Watch , WBAI , KPFK , The Toast , KPFA , WHMP , WMPR , High Times , KPFT , and others. She has done

2100-576: The areas the Navy was prepared to utilize, without the mandatory risk assessments, medical plans, surveys of training areas and coordinating their activities with local, state and federal law enforcement officials. The release of these documents forced the Navy to postpone this training for at least 2 years. It caused commotion within the Washington state government, as they were not aware of the Navy's plans. Freelancer and Truthout writer Aaron Miguel Cantú

2160-797: The crime and courts reporter for the Whittier Daily News in 1997 and then moved to the City News Service where he covered court trials. Leopold next worked as a city editor and reporter for the Los Angeles Times . He then worked for Dow Jones Newswires as its Los Angeles bureau chief. Leopold was later the US correspondent for 95bFM in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2020, Natalie Edwards pled guilty to leaking FinCEN information to Leopold, including internal FinCEN emails, investigative memos and intelligence assessments. Leopold

2220-485: The email in a letter he sent to The New York Times , and when Salon's editors contacted Leopold's source, the source denied speaking to him. The Village Voice reported, "Obviously, Leopold made mistakes, but it's not at all clear they justify a full repudiation of the story or a revocation of his journalistic license. As Paul Krugman told the Voice , 'Everything else in that story checked out. The substance of his reporting

2280-622: The essays are published on Truthout’s website. The prize was first awarded in 2021. A 2024 Anthem Award in the category of News & Journalism was awarded to “Remaking the Exceptional”, a series of explainer videos made through a collaboration between Truthout, Zealous, and Teen Vogue about myths about and alternatives to policing and incarceration. In 2022, the Crossroads Fund presented The Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award to Truthout, for independent reporting and commentary on

2340-457: The executive director, Marc Ash, issued a statement apologizing for “getting too far out in front of the news-cycle”. The grand jury concluded with no indictment of Rove. In his memoir, Courage and Consequence , Karl Rove addressed the Leopold article. Rove writes that Leopold is a "nut with Internet access" and that "thirty-five reporters called [Robert] Luskin or Corallo to ask about the Truthout report". According to Rove, " Fitzgerald got

2400-412: The facades of the Obama administration and disclosed a military strategy that amounts to a war against civilians." Amongst Porter's award-winning stories were 'How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate "Killing Machine,"' and 'The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan.' Maya Schenwar , currently the editor in chief of Truthout, was awarded in the 2013 Online Column Writing category by

2460-652: The film star's being elected Governor of California, for a story he wrote on Halliburton in 2005, and again in 2011 for a story he wrote on a controversial "spiritual fitness test" the Army required all of its enlisted soldiers. In 2008, Leopold received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation . He shared the 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for investigative business journalism for "Profit, Pain, and Private Equity". Maya Schenwar Maya Schenwar (born November 10, 1982)

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2520-449: The first online-only news website to unionize. Truthout staff have worked remotely since the organization’s founding in 2001 – a fact that stymied traditional union organizing and certification processes that take place in a physical workplace. Truthout held the first virtual card check in the U.S. on August 27, 2009, using faxed images of each employee’s signature to verify their signed union cards. Truthout’s board of directors recognized

2580-531: The racism and oppressive foundations of extensions of the prison-industrial complex such as the child protective services system and school policing. Schenwar's book, Locked Down, Locked Out , examines how prison breaks apart families and communities , and how severing those bonds between people actually hinders the prospect of real collective safety for all. The book is told through the story of Schenwar's own family’s experience, alongside those of many other incarcerated people and their families. The book also profiles

2640-583: The resignation of Alyeska's CEO one day after Leopold's report was published at Truthout . On July 14, 2010, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing in the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. The hearing, titled "The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management," cited an investigative report by Leopold, published at Truthout as

2700-451: The roots and manifestations of police violence , as well as the contemporary efforts to resist racist and oppressive policing. Schenwar has won a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award , an Independent Publisher Book Award , the Women's Prison Association's Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. Maya Schenwar had

2760-745: The shot was a truth serum or hallucinogen "as a ruse". Leopold worked at Vice News from 2014 to 2017. His prolific use of the Freedom of Information Act has caused him to be labeled a "FOIA terrorist". He is the journalist whose Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forced the State Department to release all of Hillary Clinton's emails on a monthly basis. He has been widely noted in the media as responsible for sensitive information disclosures including abusive treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. On 18 January 2019, Leopold co-authored an explosive report that alleged Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen to lie to Congress about

2820-431: The slides refer to as just wars, as well as quotes from former Nazi Wernher von Braun . The Air Force removed the material from its training regime a day after Leopold's story was published, with David Smith, chief of public affairs of Air Education and Training Command, telling Leopold (The material) "has been taken out of the curriculum and is being reviewed," and "The commander reviewed it and decided we needed to have

2880-469: The special counsel's office were untrue, and other news organizations were unable to corroborate the findings with reports of their own. After the publication of the story, Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani went on CNN and said Trump might have spoken to Cohen about his congressional testimony. Giuliani also inadvertently confirmed other details about the BuzzFeed story, such as the fact that negotiations over

2940-448: The story, calling it "a complete fabrication". Truthout defended the story, saying on May 15 they had two sources "who were explicit about the information" published, and confirmed on May 25 that they had "three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove were handed an indictment" on the night of May 12. The grand jury concluded without returning an indictment of Rove. In his memoir, Courage and Consequence , Rove addressed

3000-547: The story. CNN 's Randi Kaye in an article cited a report by Truthout as the first article on BP Alaska employee Mark Kovac's inside knowledge about the safety concerns at the Prudhoe Bay , Alaska BP oil field. On July 14, 2010, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing in the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. The hearing titled "The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management", cited an investigative report by Truthout as

3060-617: The tower extended well into 2016. The Washington Post opined that Michael Cohen's testimony to the House Oversight Committee largely confirmed the thrust of the report but contradicted key details. With the release of the Mueller report in April 2019, the report found that while there was evidence that Trump was aware that Cohen had provided false testimony to Congress, "the evidence available to us does not establish that

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3120-526: The union on the same day. About a dozen Truthout employees became members of the NewsGuild-CWA Local 36047, and Truthout remains a unionized workplace today. 60 Minutes cited a report published on Truthout as a source for its May 16, 2010 episode about the BP oil spill and the whistleblower who warned about a possible blowout at another BP deepwater drilling site. Digital Journal wrote up

3180-547: The very first captives release. The report from the Pentagon Inspector General was declassified, and in which the Pentagon concludes that the injections were flu shots, IV hydration (sometimes post-hunger strike), and medical treatment with or without consent, and "were not mind-altering drugs for interrogation purposes". The report does say that a detainee was given a routine flu shot, and was told that

3240-409: Was a member of the advisory board. The late William Rivers Pitt was Truthout's senior editor and lead columnist. Jason Leopold Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969) is an American investigative reporter who writes for Bloomberg News . He was previously an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News , Al Jazeera America , and Vice News . He worked at Truthout as

3300-542: Was canceled following reported legal threats from Steven Maviglio, the press secretary to former Governor Gray Davis , who, according to the manuscript, invested in energy companies using inside information. The author of the Washington Post story about Leopold's book, Howard Kurtz, was featured in News Junkie . Leopold called him "lazy". In the book, Leopold also revealed many secrets about his life such as

3360-538: Was debating energy policy. Leopold's reporting on Enron was featured in a National Public Radio special broadcast, "Blind Trust." According to Publishers Weekly , Leopold was "one of the few reporters who'd actually interviewed Enron President Jeff Skilling" following Enron's bankruptcy in December 2001. In September 2002, following a two-week investigation, Salon removed from its website an article authored by Leopold about Army Secretary Thomas E. White 's role in

3420-495: Was entirely correct. ' " Commenting on the case, Kerry Lauerman of Salon said that "Leopold definitely represents the dark side of the web ... he became this sort of hero for throngs of people online". Prior to the publication of News Junkie , Leopold's book was titled Off the Record . The book's publisher, according to The Washington Post report, said the book has been dropped for "business reasons". The Post wrote that it

3480-508: Was on the Los Angeles Times' Bestsellers / Paperbacks list on June 11, 2006 and July 16, 2006. On May 13, 2006, Leopold reported on Truthout that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury investigating the Plame affair . Rove spokesman Mark Corallo denied the story, calling it "a complete fabrication". Truthout vigorously defended the story saying variously that it had two or three "independent sources", before

3540-787: Was one of six journalists faced with felony rioting charges after covering the inauguration of Donald Trump. In July 2018, all charges against Cantu and many of the other protestors were dismissed. In 2023 Truthout launched the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, a program that offers assistance to small and emerging progressive news organizations in order to “help grow the critical media ecosystem necessary to build grassroots power.” Truthout provides these organizations with guidance on growth and sustainability, consults on editorial and business strategy, and provides access to resources such as development databases. Maya Schenwar , Truthout’s editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief, serves as

3600-556: Was referred to as "one of the most aggressive reporters" on the California energy crisis by Jill Stewart , a columnist for the now-defunct New Times LA newspaper in Los Angeles. An article Leopold wrote for CBS Marketwatch about Enron's role in the California energy crisis was cited during a floor speech by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and read into the Congressional Record on June 10, 2003, as Congress

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