{{Short description|American non profit news organization}} {{Multiple issues| {{Third-party|date=November 2020}}{{Peacock|date=June 2022}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox organization | name = Truthout | formation = {{start date and age|2001}} | logo = Truthout.svg | type = 501(c)(3) organization | tax_id = 20-0031641 | status = Non-profit | headquarters = Sacramento, California | num_employees = 25 | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''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. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ground.news/interest/truthout|title=Truthout|work=Ground News|quote=Truthout's media bias is left. Ground News assigned this score by aggregating media bias ratings of a Left rating from Ad Fontes Media, a Left rating from Media Bias/Fact Check, a leanLeft rating from from All Sides.|access-date=January 10, 2024}}</ref>
Truthout's senior leadership team comprises the executive director, Ziggy West Jeffery, and the editor-in-chief, Negin Owliaei.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Truthout |title=Masthead Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/masthead/ |access-date=August 19, 2024 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref> The organization's annual operating budget was approximately $2.2 million in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2021–2022 Annual Report |url=https://truthout.org/2021-2022-annual-report/ |access-date=August 26, 2023 |website=Truthout}}</ref>
== History==
=== Founding === Truthout was founded in 2001 following the 2000 United States presidential election results.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Harvey |first=Kerric |url=https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/encyclopedia-of-social-media-and-politics/chpt/truthout |title=Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics |chapter=Truthout |doi=10.4135/9781452244723.n536}}</ref> By 2006, the organization had thirty employees.<ref>{{Cite news |title=One man's truth . . . |url=https://www.ft.com/content/05f67218-7bad-11db-b1c6-0000779e2340 |work=Financial Times}}</ref>
=== Controversial reporting on Karl Rove === On May 13, 2006, journalist Jason Leopold reported on ''Truthout'' that Karl Rove had been indicted by a grand jury investigating the Plame affair. Rove's spokesperson, Mark Corallo, denied the report.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 15, 2006 |title=Rove Indictment Report Denied |url=http://www.nysun.com/article/32727 |access-date=June 12, 2010 |publisher=New York Sun}}</ref>
''Truthout'' defended the story, stating that it was based on multiple sources which indicated that an indictment had been issued or presented to Rove’s attorneys.<ref name="Jason Leopold Caught Sourceless">{{cite web |date=June 13, 2006 |title=Jason Leopold Caught Sourceless again |url=https://www.cjr.org/politics/jason_leopold_caught_sourceles.php |access-date=November 17, 2015 |publisher=Columbia Journalism Review}}</ref> The grand jury later concluded its investigation without returning an indictment against Rove.<ref name="salon">{{cite web |date=June 13, 2006 |title=Truthout reporter stands by the "Rove indicted" |url=http://www.salon.com/2006/06/13/interview_26/ |access-date=March 23, 2016 |work=Salon.com}}</ref>
Rove addressed the report in his memoir, ''Courage and Consequence'', criticizing the article and stating that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald regarded the account as inaccurate.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rove |first=Karl |author-link=Karl Rove |title=Courage and Consequence |publisher=Threshold Editions |year=2010 |page=438}}</ref>
Leopold continued to publish investigative reporting for ''Truthout'' through 2014, and joined ''Vice News'' later that year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 4, 2014 |title=The Fix |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/299096079/the-fix |work=National Public Radio}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Darcy |first=Oliver |date=January 18, 2019 |title=Reporter with checkered past comes back with Trump Tower Moscow bombshells for BuzzFeed |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/media/buzzfeed-reporter-jason-leopold/index.html |work=CNN Business}}</ref>
=== Reporting on the Bush administration's interrogation techniques === A 2009 report by ''Truthout'' on the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques was cited by Countdown with Keith Olbermann and by Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.<ref name=":5" />
===Unionization=== In 2009, Truthout became the first online-only news website to unionize.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenhouse |first=Steven |date=March 21, 2019 |title=Why Newsrooms Are Unionizing Now |url=https://niemanreports.org/articles/why-newsrooms-are-unionizing-now/ |work=Nieman Reports}}</ref>
About a dozen Truthout employees became members of the NewsGuild-CWA Local 36047, and Truthout remains a unionized workplace today.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 5, 2020 |title=Members {{!}} The NewsGuild – TNG-CWA |url=https://newsguild.org/members/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>
===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.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 16, 2010 |title=Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster |publisher=CBSnews.com |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blowout-the-deepwater-horizon-disaster-16-05-2010/ |access-date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> Digital Journal wrote up the story.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 21, 2010 |title=Report: Bush DoJ sheltered BP executives from criminal probe |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292341 |access-date=June 12, 2010 |publisher=DigitalJournal.com}} </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 |date=June 23, 2010 |title=BP Alaska: A Ticking Time Bomb? |publisher=ac360.blogs.cnn.com |url=http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/bp-alaska-a-ticking-time-bomb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624191040/http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/bp-alaska-a-ticking-time-bomb/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 24, 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 |title=The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management |url=http://transportation.house.gov/hearings/hearingDetail.aspx?NewsID=1266 |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 |access-date=July 21, 2010 |publisher=transportation.house.gov}}</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 |date=July 14, 2010 |title=The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines (Part 2): Integrity Management. – Page 6, footnote 17 |url=http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Rail/20100715/SSM_RR.pdf |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 |access-date=July 21, 2010}}</ref>
===2011 hack===
In 2011, Truthout suffered a hacking breach in which ten days' worth 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=March 31, 2011}}</ref>
=== Offshore fracking === In 2013, Truthout journalist Mike Ludwig unearthed information through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Interior Department revealing that fracking technology was being used on offshore oil rigs in the ecologically sensitive Santa Barbara Channel.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast |language=en-US |work=Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/articles/special-investigation-fracking-in-the-ocean-off-the-california-coast/ |access-date=October 16, 2018}}</ref> Coastal conservationists took note of this, and environmentalists took action, generating protests and broad public discussion<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fracking Report on Santa Barbara Channel |url=https://www.independent.com/news/2013/jul/31/fracking-report-santa-barbara-channel/ |access-date=October 16, 2018 |website=www.independent.com |language=en}}</ref> about offshore fracking. At one point, lawsuits filed by environmental groups forced federal officials to place a moratorium<ref>{{Cite news |title=Following Truthout Investigation, Settlements Halt Fracking Off the Coast of California |language=en-US |work=Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/articles/following-truthout-investigation-settlements-halt-fracking-off-the-coast-of-california/ |access-date=October 16, 2018}}</ref> on offshore fracking in the channel while regulators reviewed the practice and their rules for making it safe. In 2014, the EPA issued new rules requiring offshore drillers to disclose fracking chemicals they dispose of into the ocean off the California coast.<ref>{{Cite news |title=EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean |language=en-US |work=Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/articles/epa-california-offshore-frackers-must-disclose-chemicals-dumped-into-ocean/ |access-date=October 16, 2018}}</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=October 16, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> Navy documents outlining plans for combat training exercises in vast non-military areas of Washington state's 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=March 12, 2018|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=October 16, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> It caused commotion within the Washington state government, as they were unaware 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=April 2, 2016|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=October 16, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
===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.<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=January 25, 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=January 24, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In July 2018, all charges against Cantu and many of the other protesters 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|date=July 6, 2018 }}</ref>
=== 2025 acquisitions === On June 11, 2025, Truthout acquired ''Yes! Magazine'''s archive following its closure.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Farewell and Thank You from YES! Media - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism |url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/farewell-and-thank-you-from-yes-media |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=YES! Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> On November 14, 2025, Truthout acquired the assets of ''The Appeal'', a criminal justice-focused news site.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2025 |title=The Appeal Joins Truthout: A New Chapter Begins |url=https://theappeal.org/news_awards/the-appeal-joins-truthout/ |work=The Appeal |access-date=November 14, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Content and partnerships ==
=== Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism === In 2023, Truthout launched the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, a program that aims to offer assistance to small and emerging progressive news organizations to "help grow the critical media ecosystem necessary to build grassroots power."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |first= |date=February 22, 2023 |title=Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism |url=https://truthout.org/articles/truthout-center-for-grassroots-journalism/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref> Truthout provides these organizations with guidance on growth and sustainability, consults on editorial and business strategy, and provides access to resources such as development databases. Maya Schenwar, Truthout's editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief, serves as the center's director.{{Citation needed|date=December 2025}}
Explaining why Truthout founded the center, Schenwar explains, "We want to exist as a publication, but we can't do it alone. We don't want to be anyone's sole news source. We want to have this vibrant ecosystem of different publications that are helping enrich people's understanding of the world, and propel them toward action on all these different fronts."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Janine |date=October 27, 2023 |title='Movement Media Has Really Emerged in Its Own Right' |url=https://fair.org/home/movement-media-has-really-emerged-in-its-own-right/ |access-date=August 26, 2024}}</ref>
Through the center, Truthout also collaborates on editorial projects with other progressive news organizations, including Zealous, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Deceleration.<ref name=":2" /> A 2023 series, created in collaboration with Truthout, Zealous, and Teen Vogue, about alternatives to incarceration won a 2024 Anthem Award.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Remaking the Exceptional: Teen Vogue & Truthout Justice Explainer Videos |url=https://www.anthemawards.com/winners/list/entry/#!human-civil-rights/news-journalism/remaking-the-exceptional-teen-vogue-truthout-justice-explainer-videos/1975/-1/457112 |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=Anthem Awards |language=en}}</ref>
=== Media Against Apartheid and Displacement === In March 2024, through its Center for Grassroots Journalism, Truthout co-founded Media Against Apartheid and Displacement (MAAD), a website that serves as a hub for articles published by progressive media organizations about the Israel-Gaza war and about Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Media Against Apartheid & Displacement |url=https://themaad.org |access-date=August 26, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Reporting and analysis are from an anti-Zionist perspective.
The project includes articles published by Prism, Truthout, In These Times, Mondoweiss, Institute for Palestine Studies, Haymarket Books, The Real News Network, The Forge, Waging Nonviolence, The Dig, The Kansas City Defender, Briarpatch, Baltimore Beat, Hammer & Hope, Scalawag, Convergence Magazine, and Analyst News.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Media Against Apatheid & Displacement – Media Against Apartheid & Displacement |url=https://themaad.org/about-media-against-apatheid-displacement/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize === The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism coordinates the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize for personal essays by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last= |date=February 1, 2024 |title=Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize |url=https://truthout.org/articles/keeley-schenwar-memorial-essay-prize/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref> The prize is named after Truthout's editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief Maya Schenwar's sister, who was incarcerated on and off over the course of 14 years before she died of an overdose in 2020.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://metropolisrisingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1565270/8026556-the-show-goes-on-remembering-keeley-with-prison-abolitionist-maya-schenwar?play=true |title=The Show Goes On: Remembering Keeley, with Prison Abolitionist Maya Schenwar – Metropolis Rising Podcast |language=en |access-date=August 26, 2024 |via=metropolisrisingpodcast.buzzsprout.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Maya Schenwar's Sister Died of an Overdose. She Says Defunding the Police Might Have Saved Her |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/30/drug_overdose_deaths |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}</ref> Keeley Schenwar wrote for Truthout about her incarceration, including giving birth while in prison.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schenwar |first=Keeley |date=February 4, 2021 |title=I Was Shackled to My Bed After Giving Birth. Then They Took My Baby Away. |url=https://truthout.org/articles/i-was-shackled-to-my-bed-after-giving-birth-then-they-took-my-baby-away/ |access-date=August 26, 2024 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref>
Each year, two winners are awarded $3,000 in prizes, and the essays are published on Truthout's website. The prize was first awarded in 2021.<ref name=":4" />
== Awards ==
=== 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=June 13, 2019}}</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|date=26 September 2011 |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|date=July 6, 2011 |language=en-US|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref>
=== Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Awards === Maya Schenwar 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=June 13, 2019}}</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|date=September 12, 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</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|date=May 30, 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</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|date=July 17, 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref>
=== San Francisco Press Club Journalism Awards === A joint Truthout and ''Earth Island Journal'' investigation, "America's Toxic Prisons"<ref>{{Cite web |title=America's Toxic Prisons | Earth Island Journal | Earth Island Institute |url=https://earthisland.org/journal/americas-toxic-prisons/ |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 |date=November 16, 2018 |title=2018 Official List of Winners – Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards – San Francisco Press Club |url=https://sfpressclub.org/2018/11/16/2018-official-list-of-winners-greater-bay-area-journalism-awards/}}</ref> The investigation won second place in the Magazines category for environment/nature reporting and investigative reporting.
=== 2018 Izzy Award === Dahr Jamail, a Truthout journalist, was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for achievements 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 ocean pollution, sea level rise, deafening noise pollution, or Fukushima radiation."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Izzy Award to be Shared by Investigative Journalists Lee Fang, Sharon Lerner, Dahr Jamail and Todd Miller |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/ |access-date=April 5, 2018 |publisher=Ithaca College}}</ref>
Jamail produces a monthly wrap-up of the latest climate research and trends – "Climate Disruption Dispatches".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jamail |first=Dahr |date=March 17, 2014 |title=Climate Disruption Dispatches, With Dahr Jamail |url=http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail |access-date=April 5, 2018 |website=Truthout |language=en-us}}</ref>
=== 2021 Izzy Award === The thirteenth annual Izzy Award was awarded to non-profit news outlet Truthout, journalist Liliana Segura, senior reporter at The Intercept, and journalist Tim Schwab, writing in The Nation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Annual Izzy Award |url=https://www.ithaca.edu/academics/roy-h-park-school-communications/park-center-independent-media/annual-izzy-award |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=Ithaca College |language=en}}</ref>
=== Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award === In 2022, the Crossroads Fund presented The Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award to Truthout for independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of topics related to social justice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seeds of Change 2022 {{!}} Crossroads Fund |url=https://www.crossroadsfund.org/seedsofchange |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=www.crossroadsfund.org}}</ref>
=== 2024 Anthem Award === A 2024 Anthem Award in the category of News & Journalism was awarded to "Remaking the Exceptional", a series of explainer videos made through a collaboration between Truthout, Zealous, and Teen Vogue that covered myths about and alternatives to policing and incarceration.<ref name=":3" />
==Staff== Truthout's executive director is Ziggy West Jeffery, and the editor-in-chief is Negin Owliaei.<ref name=":1" />
Truthout's Board of Directors includes Maya Schenwar, McMaster University professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux, and Lewis R. Gordon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Truthout |title=About Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/about/ |access-date=November 23, 2022 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref>
Truthout's Board of Advisors includes Mark Ruffalo, Dean Baker, Richard D. Wolff, William Ayers, and Mark Weisbrot.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Staff {{!}} Truthout |language=en-US |work=Truthout |url=https://truthout.org/truthout-staff/ |access-date=September 27, 2018}}</ref> The late Howard Zinn was a member of the advisory board.
The late William Rivers Pitt was Truthout's senior editor and lead columnist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schenwar |first=Maya |date=September 27, 2022 |title=William Rivers Pitt Dared to Hope for Our Future. Let's Do Right by His Memory. |url=https://truthout.org/articles/william-rivers-pitt-dared-to-hope-for-our-future-lets-do-right-by-his-memory/ |access-date=April 24, 2023 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
==External links== * {{official website|https://truthout.org/}}
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