About Truthout

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Executive Director: Ziggy West Jeffery
Editor-in-Chief: Negin Owliaei
Publisher: Saima Desai

Editor-at-Large and Director of Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism: Maya Schenwar

Managing Editor: Alana Yu-lan Price
Creative Director: Jared Rodriguez
Production Manager: Britney Schultz
Senior Editors: Candice Bernd, Anton Woronczuk
Editors: Samantha Borek, Loretta Graceffo, Zack Kligler
Staff Reporters: Candice Bernd, Mike Ludwig
News Writers: Zane McNeill, Chris Walker, Sharon Zhang
Designer and Photo Editor: Ayọ Walker
Podcaster and Contributing Writer: Kelly Hayes
Fact Checkers: Lorenzo Estébanez, Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
Copy Editors: Samantha Borek, Merula Furtado
Senior Editor and Lead Columnist, In Memoriam: William Rivers Pitt (1971 – 2022)

Development Director: Anna Sutton
Development Manager: Jin-ah Lee
Development Advisor, Sustaining Donors: Rosette Sewali
Development Advisor, Institutional Giving: Tasasha Henderson
Administrative Manager: Annie Leibrock
Financial Administrator: Kendel Gordon
Community Liaison: Joseph Peterson
Social Media and Marketing Manager: Sophie Moon
Social Media Associate: Dean Dickinson
Social Media Advisor: Annabel Park

Website Developers: R Scott LaMorte, Takahiro Noguchi

Board of Directors

President: Maya Schenwar
Treasurer: Lewis Gordon
Secretary: Henry A. Giroux
Members: Lacey Dickinson, Robert Naiman, David Palumbo-Liu, Shaghayegh Tajvidi

Our Organization and Mission

Truthout is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Since our founding in 2001, we have anchored our work in principles of accuracy, transparency, and independence from the influence of corporate and political forces.

Truthout works to spark action by revealing systemic social, racial, economic and environmental injustice and providing a platform for progressive and transformative ideas, through in-depth investigative reporting and critical analysis. With a powerful, independent voice, we spur transformations in consciousness and inspire both policy change and direct action. For more on our editorial approach, please read “Remaking Media in the Pursuit of Justice” and “A Call to the Media: Let’s Go Beyond ‘Preserving Democracy.’”

Your support helps us continue to do the vital work of publishing award-winning independent journalism. Whether you can give $10 a month or $50,000 a year, your gift provides the kind of sustainable funding publications like ours need to survive, and ensures we can continue amplifying the voices of activists, scientists, scholars and truth-tellers from across the nation.

You can make a donation online here or visit our More Ways To Give page for more options.

Editorial Independence Policy

In order to remain free of bias and adhere to high editorial standards, Truthout accepts no advertising or corporate backing. Instead, we depend on our readers, and a handful of foundations who support our mission, to make our work possible: Donations from individual readers have accounted for an average 81 percent of our annual budget over the last five years. Readers and foundations who donate to Truthout do so in their knowledge that our editorial principles and judgment are in no way influenced by those donations — they support us not in spite of the fact that we scrupulously maintain our editorial independence (even when it comes to our largest contributors), but because of that integrity.

Corrections Policy

In cases where we make a substantive correction to a story, we will make the change within the piece and add a note to the end of the article indicating what we have changed and why.

If a broader change is made that affects the nature of the story, we will add an editor’s note at the top of the piece that explains our rationale for making this larger alteration.

Donor Transparency and Privacy Policy

Truthout respects the privacy of our readers and supporters and will never share personal contact information with third parties. For transparency, donors and foundations who give $500 or more in a year are listed, with their approval, in our annual report each year. We also report contributions totaling $5,000 or more to the IRS.

Financial Information

Truthout is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization #20-0031641. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. To donate to Truthout, click here.

For more information about our model and how we utilize our resources, please read Truthout’s annual report for fiscal year 2021/2022. You can also view past annual reports: 2020/2021 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013, 2011/2012.

Our 2022/2023 annual report is in the works. In 2023, Truthout switched from a fiscal year that spans from May 1 to April 30, to a fiscal year that spans from January 1 to December 31. To account for this change, we’ll publish a longer-than usual annual report covering the 20 months from May 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. After that, our annual reports will cover a 12-month calendar year.

Our recent 990s can be found here: 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016.

Contributing Writers

Eman Abdelhadi, Sasha Abramsky, Rodrigo Acuña, Ashjan Ajour, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Michael Arria, Seraj Assi, David Bacon, Eleanor J. Bader, brian bean, Cody Bloomfield, adrienne maree brown, Alyssa Bowen, Braxton Brewington, Shane Burley, José Luis Granados Ceja, Lizzie Chadbourne, Michelle Chen, Noam Chomsky, Simone Chun, Marjorie Cohn, Sandra Cuffe, susie day, ​​Jen Deerinwater, Marianne Dhenin, Jaskiran Dhillon, Arvind Dilawar, Brian Dolinar, Emily Drabinski, Daniel Falcone, Ella Fassler, Michael Fox, Setareh Ghandehari, Henry A. Giroux, Lisa Graves, Jesse Hagopian, Rachel Herzing, Maha Hilal, Adam Hudson, Mickey Huff, Emily Janakiram, Dahr Jamail, Hoda Katebi, Susan Kang, Danny Katch, James Kilgore, Michael T. Klare, Lindsay Koshgarian, October Krausch, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Victoria Law, Aaron Leonard, Jon Letman, Frances Madeson, Magally A. Miranda Alcázar, Austin C. McCoy, Zane McNeill, Michel Moushabeck, Nadine Naber, Souzan Naser, Greg Palast, David Palumbo-Liu, Tamara Pearson, Khury Petersen-Smith, CJ Polychroniou, Nicholas Powers, Katie Rose Quandt, Lauren Rankin, Barbara Ransby, David Renton, Andrea J. Ritchie, William I. Robinson, Brant Rosen, Sam Rosenthal, Daniel Ross, Andy Lee Roth, Edwin Rubis, Derek Seidman, Silky Shah, Ashley Smith, Norman SolomonJP Sottile, Dean Spade, Chase Strangio, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Rimsha Syed, Flint Taylor, Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Alex S. Vitale, Tyler Walicek, Lewis Raven Wallace, George Yancy, Stephen Zunes

Board of Advisers

William Ayers, Dean Baker, Beverly Bell, Scott Blau, Cynthia Boaz, Alan Breslauer, Rinaldo Brutoco, Julian Casablancas, Marjorie Cohn, Jodie Evans, Jaclyn Friedman, Jeff Haas, Dahr Jamail, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Nell Painter, Richard Power, Roberto Rodriguez, Brant Rosen, Mark Ruffalo, Graham Ryan, T.M. Scruggs, Mariesa Sun-Saenz, Leslie Thatcher and Mark Weisbrot.