Truthout

Truthout is an American non-profit news organization that reports news from a left-wing perspective with its main areas of focus including: mass incarceration, prison abolition advocacy, social justice, climate change, militarism, economics, open borders, U.S. LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive justice. Truthout's senior leadership team consists of the executive director, Ziggy West Jeffery, and the editor-in-chief, Negin Owliaei. The organization's annual operating budget was approximately $2.2 million in 2021.

Truthout is an American non-profit news organization that reports news from a left-wing perspective with its main areas of focus including: mass incarceration, prison abolition advocacy, social justice, climate change, militarism, economics, open borders, U.S. LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive justice. Truthout's senior leadership team consists of the executive director, Ziggy West Jeffery, and the editor-in-chief, Negin Owliaei. The organization's annual operating budget was approximately $2.2 million in 2021. == History== ===Unionization=== In 2009, Truthout became the first online-only news website to unionize. About a dozen Truthout employees became members of the NewsGuild-CWA Local 36047, and Truthout remains a unionized workplace today. ===Safety issues at BP=== The CBS news program 60 Minutes cited a report published on Truthout as a source for its May 16, 2010, episode covering the BP oil spill and the whistleblower who warned about a possible blowout at another BP deepwater drilling site. Digital Journal wrote up 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 a document for the committee's investigation. ===2011 hack=== In 2011, Truthout suffered a hacking breach in which ten days' worth of articles were deleted. ===2017 riot charges=== Freelancer and Truthout writer Aaron Miguel Cantú was one of the 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 protesters were dismissed. ==Staff== Truthout's executive director is Ziggy West Jeffery, and the editor-in-chief is Negin Owliaei. Truthout's Board of Directors includes Maya Schenwar, McMaster University professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux, and Lewis R. Gordon. Truthout's Board of Advisors includes Mark Ruffalo, Dean Baker, Richard D. Wolff, William Ayers, and Mark Weisbrot. The late Howard Zinn was a member of the advisory board. The late William Rivers Pitt was Truthout's senior editor and lead columnist. ==References== ==External links==

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