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'''Truthout''' is a 501(c)(3) US-based nonprofit news organization that describes itself as a type of journalism in pursuit of justice. Some of Truthout's main areas of focus are mass incarceration, social justice and climate change. In 2009, Truthout became the first online-only publication to unionize.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Anna |last=Heyward|date=Spring–Summer 2018|title=Joining the ranks|url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/media-unions.php/|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en}}</ref>

Truthout's editorial team is led by editor in chief Maya Schenwar,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://truthout.org/truthout-staff/|title=Staff {{!}} Truthout|work=Truthout|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-US}}</ref> and managing director Ziggy West Jeffery.
==Notable reporting and projects==
Truthout has published several pieces which have impacted local and national policy.
===''Movement Memos'' Podcast===
''Movement Memos'' is a weekly [[podcast]] hosted by activist and Truthout journalist Kelly Hayes. Started in 2020, Hayes uses interviews with activists and organizers to call listeners to action and document movement work and [[Mutual aid (organization theory)|mutual aid]] efforts around the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hayes|first=Kelly|title=Movement Memos Archives|url=https://truthout.org/series/movement-memos/|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Truthout|language=en-US}}</ref>
===Illegal Navy training===
In 2016, Dahr Jamail and Truthout released<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://truthout.org/articles/exclusive-navy-uses-us-citizens-as-pawns-in-domestic-war-games/|title=EXCLUSIVE: Navy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games|work=Truthout|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref> Navy documents outlining plans for combat training exercises along vast non-military areas of Washington state coastline. The documents showed 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/navy-wants-more-washington-state-parks-for-stealth-seal-training/|title=Navy wants to use more Washington state parks for stealth SEAL training|date=2018-03-12|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref> It caused commotion within the Washington state government, as they were not aware of the Navy's plans.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jets-helicopters-rockets-military-plans-more-uses-of-northwest-public-lands/|title=Jets, helicopters, rockets: Military plans more uses of Northwest public lands|date=2016-04-02|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref>
===''Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?''===
Truthout and [[Haymarket Books]] collaborated in 2016 to release a collection of essays and articles from Truthout about police violence against minority communities. The book, entitled ''Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States,'' included work from Truthout staff writers as well as outside contributors. In 2020, during the [[George Floyd protests]], the book was made free for download.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FREE ebook: Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States|url=https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1266407238270410766|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>
===Offshore fracking===
In 2013, Truthout journalist Mike Ludwig unearthed with a [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] request with the [[United States Department of the Interior|Interior Department]] revealed that [[fracking]] technology was being used on offshore oil rigs in the ecologically sensitive Santa Barbara Channel.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://truthout.org/articles/special-investigation-fracking-in-the-ocean-off-the-california-coast/|title=Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast|work=Truthout|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref> Coastal conservationists were alarmed, and environmental groups sprang into action, generating protests and broad public discussion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.com/news/2013/jul/31/fracking-report-santa-barbara-channel/|title=Fracking Report on Santa Barbara Channel|website=www.independent.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref> about offshore fracking. At one point, lawsuits filed by environmental groups forced federal officials to place a moratorium<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://truthout.org/articles/following-truthout-investigation-settlements-halt-fracking-off-the-coast-of-california/|title=Following Truthout Investigation, Settlements Halt Fracking Off the Coast of California|work=Truthout|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref> on offshore fracking in the Channel while regulators reviewed the practice and their rules for making it safe. In 2014, the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] issued a new rules requiring offshore drillers to disclose fracking chemicals they dump into the ocean off the California coast.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://truthout.org/articles/epa-california-offshore-frackers-must-disclose-chemicals-dumped-into-ocean/|title=EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean|work=Truthout|access-date=2018-10-16|language=en-US}}</ref>  
===Safety issues at BP===
''60 Minutes'' cited a report published at 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490197.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1|title=Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster|publisher=[[CBSnews.com]]|date=May 16, 2010|access-date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> Digital Journal wrote up the story.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292341|title=Report: Bush DoJ sheltered BP executives from criminal probe|publisher=DigitalJournal.com|date=May 21, 2010|access-date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> [[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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/bp-alaska-a-ticking-time-bomb|title=BP Alaska: A Ticking Time Bomb?|publisher=ac360.blogs.cnn.com|date=June 23, 2010|access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://transportation.house.gov/hearings/hearingDetail.aspx?NewsID=1266 |title=The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management |publisher=transportation.house.gov |access-date=July 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803234524/http://transportation.house.gov/hearings/hearingDetail.aspx?NewsID=1266 |archive-date=August 3, 2010 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Rail/20100715/SSM_RR.pdf |title=The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management. - Page 6, footnote 17 |date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=July 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804012029/http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Rail/20100715/SSM_RR.pdf |archive-date=August 4, 2010 }}</ref>
===Veterans' issues===
Truthout has closely followed issues affecting Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Coverage has especially focused on veteran health care and [[post-traumatic stress disorder]]. An ongoing Truthout investigation has claimed widespread neglect within the [[Veterans Health Administration]] of veterans with PTSD.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0901/S00425.htm|title=Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA|publisher=[[Scoop.co.nz]]|date=January 30, 2009|access-date=June 12, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/archives/848-maya-schenwar |title=PTSD Ignored on Active Duty |publisher=[[Veterans for Common Sense]] |date=July 16, 2009 |access-date=June 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611234307/http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.php/archives/848-maya-schenwar |archive-date=June 11, 2010 }}</ref>
==Awards==
===Izzy Award===
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 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 [[marine pollution|ocean pollution]], sea level rise, deafening noise pollution or Fukushima radiation."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ithaca.edu/news/releases/izzy-award-to-be-shared-by-investigative-journalists-lee-fang,-sharon-lerner,-dahr-jamail-and-todd-miller-49708/|title=Izzy Award to be Shared by Investigative Journalists Lee Fang, Sharon Lerner, Dahr Jamail and Todd Miller|publisher=Ithaca College|access-date=2018-04-05}}</ref>

Jamail's monthly wrap-ups of the latest climate research and trends – "Climate Disruption Dispatches"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail|title=Climate Disruption Dispatches, With Dahr Jamail|last=Jamail|first=Dahr|website=Truthout|language=en-us|access-date=2018-04-05}}</ref> – have become an essential resource for scientists and fellow journalists.
===San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards===
A joint Truthout and [[Earth Island Journal]] investigation "America's Toxic Prisons"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://earthisland.org/journal/americas-toxic-prisons/|title=America’s Toxic Prisons | Earth Island Journal | Earth Island Institute|website=earthisland.org}}</ref> by Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren, and Maureen Nandini Mitra won awards in two categories of the 2018 San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sfpressclub.org/2018/11/16/2018-official-list-of-winners-greater-bay-area-journalism-awards/|title=2018 Official List of Winners – Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – San Francisco Press Club}}</ref> The investigation won second place in the Magazines category for environment/nature reporting and investigative reporting.
===Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism===
In 2012, Truthout journalist [[Gareth Porter]] was awarded the [[Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marthagellhorn.com/previous.htm|title=Previous Winners|website=www.marthagellhorn.com|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> for his work uncovering the Obama administration's military strategy in Afghanistan. ''"In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/how-mcchrystal-and-petraeus-built-an-indiscriminate-killing-machine/|title=How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate "Killing Machine"|last=Porter|first=Gareth|website=Truthout|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>"' and 'The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/the-lies-that-sold-obamas-escalation-in-afghanistan/|title=The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan|last=Porter|first=Gareth|website=Truthout|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>'
===Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Awards===
Maya Schenwar, currently the editor in chief of Truthout, was awarded in the 2013 Online Column Writing category by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] Sigma Delta Chi Awards<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/reports/awards.php|title=Awards|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> for her columns on mass incarceration,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/the-prison-system-welcomes-my-newborn-niece-to-this-world/|title=The Prison System Welcomes My Newborn Niece to This World|last=Schenwar|first=Maya|website=Truthout|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> the death penalty,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/life-on-penalty-of-death/|title=Life on Penalty of Death|last=Schenwar|first=Maya|website=Truthout|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref> and solitary confinement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://truthout.org/articles/please-stop-reforming-pelican-bay/|title=Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay|last=Schenwar|first=Maya|website=Truthout|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref>
==History==
In 2011, Truthout suffered a hacking breach in which ten days of articles were deleted.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Romenesko |first1=Jim |title=Truthout says hackers deleted stories from past 10 days |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/truthout-org-says-hackers-deleted-stories-from-past-10-days/ |work=Poynter |date=31 March 2011}}</ref>

Freelancer and Truthout writer Aaron Miguel Cantú was one of six journalists faced with felony rioting charges after covering the inauguration of Donald Trump. He was among 230 individuals detained in a mass arrest, with no court documents indicating any personal participation. He faced a maximum of 10 years prison and $25,000 if convicted.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grove |first1=Lloyd |title=These Reporters Were Jailed After Covering a Trump-Related Riot |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-reporters-were-jailed-after-covering-a-trump-related-riot |work=The Daily Beast |date=25 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Swaine |first1=Jon |title=Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-charged-felonies-trump-inauguration-unrest |work=the Guardian |date=24 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref> Charges against four of the other journalists were dropped. Explanations for this were not provided.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Ruth |title=Brooklyn journalists face felony rioting charges for inauguration protest coverage • Brooklyn Paper |url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-journalists-face-felony-rioting-charges-for-inauguration-protest-coverage/ |work=Brooklyn Paper |date=2 February 2017}}</ref> Cantú was indicted on eight felony charges by a grand jury. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sent a letter of support for Cantú.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Visser |first1=Nick |title=Journalist Arrested During D.C. Protest Faces 75 Years In Prison |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aaron-cantu-reporter-prison_n_59377e9de4b01fc18d3eb210 |work=HuffPost |date=7 June 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In July 2018, all charges against Cantu and many of the other protestors were dismissed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfreporter.com/news/2018/07/06/journalists-charges-dropped/|title=SFR Journalist’s Charges Dropped|website=Santa Fe Reporter}}</ref>
==Staff==
Truthout is led by Editor-in-Chief [[Maya Schenwar]], and Managing Director Ziggy West Jeffery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.truth-out.org/about-us|title=About Us|last=Letterle|first=Bruce|website=www.truth-out.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-04-05}}</ref>

Truthout's Board of Directors is made up of McMaster University Professor and educational theorist [[Henry Giroux|Henry A. Giroux]], policy director [[Robert Naiman (activist)|Robert Naiman]], and [[Lewis Gordon|Lewis R. Gordon]].

Truthout's Board of Advisors includes [[Mark Ruffalo]], [[Dean Baker]], [[Richard D. Wolff]], [[Bill Ayers|William Ayers]], [[Mark Weisbrot]]. [[Howard Zinn]] was formerly a member of the advisory board.
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