Truthout, the Glossary
Truthout is an American non-profit news organization which describes itself as "dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues".[1]
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64 relations: Bill Ayers, CBS News, Climate change, CNN, CNN Business, Columbia Journalism Review, Crossroads Fund, Dahr Jamail, Dean Baker, Deepwater drilling, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Earth Island Institute, Economics, Fracking, Freedom of Information Act (United States), Gareth Porter, Grand jury, Henry Giroux, Howard Zinn, Incarceration in the United States, Indictment, Jason Leopold, Karl Rove, Left-wing politics, Lewis Gordon, LGBT rights in the United States, Marine pollution, Mark Corallo, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Weisbrot, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Maya Schenwar, McMaster University, Militarism, News, Nonprofit organization, NPR, Patrick Fitzgerald, Plame affair, Prison abolition movement, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, Randi Kaye, Reproductive justice, Richard D. Wolff, Robert Luskin, Robert Naiman (activist), Roy H. Park School of Communications, Sacramento, California, Salon.com, Santa Barbara Channel, ... Expand index (14 more) »
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Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American retired professor and former militant organizer.
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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CNN Business
CNN Business (formerly CNN Money) is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.
Columbia Journalism Review
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is a biannual magazine for professional journalists that has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961.
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Crossroads Fund
The Crossroads Fund is a Chicago-based public foundation that supports community organizations working for social and economic justice in the Chicago area.
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Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Dean Baker
Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with Mark Weisbrot.
Deepwater drilling
Deepwater drilling, or deep well drilling, is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Earth Island Institute
The Earth Island Institute is a non-profit environmental group founded in 1982 by David Brower.
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Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Fracking
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.
Freedom of Information Act (United States)
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.
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Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter (born June 18, 1942) is an American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security issues.
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Grand jury
A grand jury is a jury—a group of citizens—empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.
Henry Giroux
Henry Armand Giroux (born September 19, 1943) is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic.
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran.
Incarceration in the United States
Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States.
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Indictment
An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.
Jason Leopold
Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969) is an American senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News.
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Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor, and lobbyist.
Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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Lewis Gordon
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion.
LGBT rights in the United States
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late 1980s.
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Marine pollution
Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
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Mark Corallo
Mark Corallo (born February 8, 1966) is an American political communications and public relations professional, who is the co-founder and co-principal of Corallo Comstock.
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor.
Mark Weisbrot
Mark Alan Weisbrot is an American economist and columnist.
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Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, named for the war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn, was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust.
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Maya Schenwar
Maya Schenwar (born November 10, 1982) is the editor-in-chief of Truthout and a writer focused on prison-related topics.
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McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Militarism
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values.
News
News is information about current events.
Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and former partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
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Plame affair
The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer in 2003.
Prison abolition movement
The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with systems of rehabilitation and education that do not focus on punishment and government institutionalization.
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Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Prudhoe Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Randi Kaye
Randi Kaye (born November 19, 1967) is an American television news journalist for CNN.
Reproductive justice
Reproductive justice is a critical feminist framework that was invented as a response to United States reproductive politics.
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Richard D. Wolff
Richard David Wolff (born 1 April, 1942) is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis.
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Robert Luskin
Robert D. Luskin (born January 21, 1950) is an attorney and partner in the Washington office of the international law firm of Paul Hastings, LLP specializing in White-collar crime and federal and state government investigations.
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Robert Naiman (activist)
Robert Naiman is an American policy analyst, researcher, writer, and activist.
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Roy H. Park School of Communications
The Roy H. Park School of Communications is one of five schools at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York, United States.
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Sacramento, California
() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Salon.com
Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. Truthout and Salon.com are American news websites, American political websites and Progressivism in the United States.
Santa Barbara Channel
The Santa Barbara Channel is a portion of the Southern California Bight and separates the mainland of California from the northern Channel Islands.
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Sigma Delta Chi Award
The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism.
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Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected.
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Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States.
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The New York Sun
The New York Sun is an American conservative news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, New York.
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Truth (anti-tobacco campaign)
Truth (stylized as truth) is an American public-relations campaign aimed at reducing teen smoking in the United States.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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Vice News
Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's alternative current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel. Truthout and Vice News are American news websites.
Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.
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William Rivers Pitt
William Rivers Pitt (November 9, 1971 – September 26, 2022) was an American author, editor, and liberal political activist.
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501(c)(3) organization
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. Truthout and 501(c)(3) organization are 501(c)(3) organizations.
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60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network.
See also
Alternative journalism organizations
- Alternative media in the United Kingdom
- Cartoon Movement
- Double Down News
- Guerrilla News Network
- Hacktivist News Service
- Indymedia
- Inter Press Service
- International Middle East Media Center
- List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates
- MintPress News
- Novara Media
- Pacific News Service
- Palestine Media Watch
- Prison Journalism Project
- The Canary (website)
- The Colorado Independent
- The Electronic Intifada
- The Grayzone
- The Intercept
- The London Economic
- The Real News Network
- The Skwawkbox
- Truthout
- US Uncut
- Undercurrents (news)
- Unicorn Riot
- Unsealed World News
Left-wing advocacy groups in the United States
- American Indian Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Freedom Socialist Party
- March for Our Lives
- Peoples Power Assemblies
- Reclaim Philadelphia
- Sleeping Giants
- Truthout
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthout
Also known as Truth-out.org, Truthout.org.
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