Sacrifices In Journalism And Whistleblowing: A Tribute to Truth-Tellers

Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Julian Assange

James Risen James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter with the New York Times, addresses a luncheon at the Associated Press Media Editors conference in Chicago. The Justice Department has ruled out forcing Risen to divulge his source in the upcoming trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified information, a person familiar with

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Investigation: Who Killed Michael Hastings?

Hours before journalist Hasting’s deadly car crash, he suspected his car’s system had been hacked.

Carl Gibson
By Carl Gibson

Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into

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Report: Hastings Was Investigating CIA Director John Brennan Before Deadly Crash

The veteran journalist claimed in an email that he was under federal investigation just hours before his death.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, who died in a car-wreck earlier this June, was working on a story for Rolling Stone about CIA Director John Brennan, according to his widow Elise Jordan. Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone, became well-known after he wrote a piece for Rolling Stone in which he

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New Crash Footage Fuels Rumors Surrounding Journalist Michael Hastings’ Death

Newly released surveillance footage shows what appears to be an uncharacteristically bright explosion from the crash.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

New surveillance footage from Los Angeles restaurant Pizzeria Mozza, which captured the single-vehicle car accident that killed investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, earlier this year in June, confirms reports from at least seven neighbors that they heard multiple large explosions. According to San Diego 6 News,

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Before Dying In Wreck, Journalist Claimed He Was Under FBI Investigation

Theories of how he died aside, Michael Hastings may have been the latest journalist to come under investigation.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Hours after news spread that investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings had died in a single-vehicle car accident in Los Angeles last Tuesday, social media sites flooded with posts speculating that the government may have been involved in his death. One day after after Hastings died, WikiLeaks tweeted that the government may

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