Truthdig

Truthdig
Type of site
 News commentary, editorials
Available in English
Owner Truthdig, L.L.C.
Created by Zuade Kaufman
Robert Scheer
Website truthdig.com
Alexa rank Increase 25,114 (January 2017)[1]
Commercial Commercial
Registration Optional
Launched 2005
Current status Active

Truthdig is a news website that provides a mix of long-form articles, blog items, interviews, arts criticism and commentary on current events delivered from a politically progressive[2] point of view. The site offers independent journalism and focuses on major “digs” that drill beneath the headlines to reveal facts overlooked or not reported by mainstream media. 

Truthdig was co-founded in 2005 by Los Angeles entrepreneur Zuade Kaufman, the only woman publisher of an online news organization, and columnist and author of 10 books, Robert Scheer, who serves as editor in chief.

Origins

Kaufman got her first job in journalism at KCET in Los Angeles and worked in documentaries before moving to print journalism. She worked with Scheer at the Los Angeles Times’  hyperlocal editions Westside Weekly and Our Times as a researcher and then as a reporter. When the newspaper changed owners and the local editions were cut, Kaufman went on to get her masters in journalism at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications.[3] She began developing an online news site while still a student and she and Scheer launched Truthdig the year she graduated and right after Scheer was pushed out of the Los Angeles Times.

Kaufman and Scheer insist on high journalistic standards and their team is composed of writers and editors from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News and other major publications.Their goal is to create a home for provocative and talented writers and to give them the freedom to pursue a story wherever it takes them.

At the time, conventional wisdom had it that no one would read long stories on the Internet. Kaufman begged to differ and set up a site featuring meaty reporting on important issues.

The site is not influenced by advertisers or shareholders and is not controlled by any outside entity.    

Contributors

Significant contributors include Bill Blum, Bill Boyarsky, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, Gore Vidal, Sam Harris, Chris Hedges, Amy Goodman, Sonali Kolhatkar, Greg Palast, Carrie Rickey, cartoonist Mr. Fish, and animator Mark Fiore.

In October 2006, Truthdig published a 660-word essay titled "After Pat's Birthday about NFL player and American soldier Pat Tillman's death written by his brother Kevin. The essay was widely distributed and was cited in The New York Times and Associated Press.[4]

On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Truthdig published "The Last Letter" by Tomas Young, a veteran paralyzed in Iraq, in which he addresses George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and condemns them as war criminals. The letter, written as Young awaits his death under hospice care, was translated into several languages and printed world-wide.[5]

Special Initiatives

Truthdig is publishing a series [dates?] on women and violence that involves women reporters going under cover to look into human trafficking, domestic violence and other issues. She also launched Global Voices, articles by women reporters who have won the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism award. 

Awards

Over the years, Truthdig has received numerous awards from its peers. These include six Webby Awards,[6] 22 awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and affiliated organizations,[7] and three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.(15)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Truthdig.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  2. ↑ "Truthdig Is a 2013 Webby Award Winner in Politics". ReleaseWire. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  3. ↑ markulyseas (2013-04-27). "Live Encounters Magazine May 2013". Live Encounters. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  4. ↑ Archibold, Randal C. (2006-10-24). "Brother of N.F.L. Star Posts Antiwar Essay". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  5. ↑ "Guerra de Irak: la última carta de Tomas Young". noticias de abajo. 2013-03-20. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  6. ↑ "Politics". Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  7. ↑ "Scheer's "Truthdig" wins 2nd Webby Award". annenberg.usc.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
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