Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
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Washington, DC
January 22, 1940 – November 4, 2024. Reporter, editor, columnist and foreign bureau chief for the Washington Post. Reported extensively on apartheid South Africa and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer prize for international reporting.
Weekly picks by Newsjunkie staff: Our library is stocked with novels, essays, reporting, and other works that live in the intersection of journalism and politics.
Journalist, author
William Langewiesche (June 12, 1955 - June 15, 2025) was an American journalist and author. He excelled at magazine journalism, crafting deep investigative essays on war, terrorism, national security, and aviation disasters.
New York
First amendment and global freedom of expression lawyer for the Associated Press, other organizations, and individuals for five decades. Mr. Winfield won cases to protect reporters’ confidential sources and unpublished notes, and he challenged efforts to bar cameras in courtrooms.
American satirist
Widely seen as one of the most influential satirists of the 20th century, Jules Feiffer broke barriers others would not touch. His comic strip was alive with the issues of the day, including sex, career stress, social alienation, marital troubles, and both self-doubt and joyful self-expression in equal measure. In an era before social media, his following was impressively large and durable.
Author of Peter Fleming: A Biography; creator of The Independent's "Country Matters" column
Peter Duff Hart-Davis was a biographer, journalist, and naturalist who wrote for the British publication The Independent. He died in England on July 10. He was 89.
New York Times investigative journalist
David Burnham's groundbreaking work for the New York Times on police corruption in the early 1970s became the foundation for the bestselling book and film Serpico; a later series on nuclear power safety violations became the basis for the film Silkwood.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2000 for a series on No Gun Ri
Paul Shin, investigative journalist and mentor at Yonhap News Agency, dies at 84.
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
October 6, 2024 - September 19, 2024. Freelance journalist Viktoria Roshchyna died in Russian captivity on the verge of release in a prisoner exchange
Published explosive revelations of organized crime; helped exonerate Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations, died March 14. He was 90.
Beverly Hills
INN, founded in 2009 by journalists from 27 nonpartisan, nonprofit news organizations, now supports about 500 member news organizations dedicated to public service. INN network members tell stories that otherwise might go untold – connecting communities, holding power to account.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Himal Southasian is a digital magazine covering politics, economy and culture from a South Asian perspective.
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and Duke DeAndre Richardson: Lives of courage and truth
Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India, is the first member of a royal family, worldwide, to come out as gay. An energetic advocate for equality, whether for struggling rural communities of Gujarat or for LGBT rights, the prince and his American husband Duke DeAndre Richardson are at the forefront of social change in India.
New Delhi
Amsterdam
Bellingcat, a nonprofit organization in Amsterdam, is an investigative news reporting and training center that publishes the journal Bellingcat News.
Mumbai
India's leading digital news organization.
Bengalaru
Delhi, India
Chapel Hill, NC
Funding, guidance, tools
St. Petersburg, Florida
The Poynter Institute is the top independent training center for journalists in the United States. Founded by Nelson Poynter of the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times, Poynter is also the publishing parent of the Tampa Bay Times.
Beverly Hills
INN, founded in 2009 by journalists from 27 nonpartisan, nonprofit news organizations, now supports about 500 member news organizations dedicated to public service. INN network members tell stories that otherwise might go untold – connecting communities, holding power to account.
Miami
New York
Nonprofit based out of Columbia University.
Washington DC
Foundational documents for understanding the operation of democracy in America
Blueprint of American democracy
The Constitution of the United States is a set of principles designed to guide government in a fair and just way, meant to withstand the passions and tides of the moment. It establishes a strong but limited federal system, balancing power between the states and the national government, ensuring that neither anarchy nor despotism would prevail.
First ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution
The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, meant as a safeguard against tyranny. It's design is structured to tell the government what it may not do, rather than what it must. It is a list of rules, written to keep power in check.
First provision of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution
Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly. The First Amendment is the most eloquent assertion of liberty in the American political tradition, yet it is constantly in tension with the realities of power. The freedoms laid down within it are not self-executing; they depend on the vigilance of those who would exercise them and the restraint of those who would curtail them.
John Milton
John Milton's 1644 statement opposing licensing is among history's most influential defenses of freedom of speech. The principles laid out here formed the basis for modern understandings of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
John Locke
John Locke's Second Treatise, published in 1689, lays out a civil society based on natural rights and contract theory. It is a foundational text in the theory of liberalism.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Published in 1532 in Rome, The Prince is a psychological handbook for governing. Machiavelli speaks to those who rule, who must decide, in moments of crisis, whether to be feared or loved, whether to break promises or honor them, whether to kill or to spare. Often cited as the inspiration for the phrase "the end justifies the means."
Walter Lippmann
The essential document outlining the problems of representative democracy in a time when society's complexity, and the news of it, is impossible to digest rationally.
Walter Lippmann
Public Opinion is a critical assessment of scenarios for healthy democratic government, in the face of emotional, irrational and self-serving social motivations prevent good political outcomes. Perceptive analysis of the limits of human perception, and how to address same in a self-governing society, gave the book a permanent place in the study of the press and democracy.
