Journalism
Reporter to get Newspaper Guild award for defying subpoena
August 18, 2014Newspaper Guild will give its Herbert Block Freedom Award to James Risen, a New York Times reporter who has defied a federal subpoena since 2006 demanding he reveal his key source.
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Series exposing conspiracy to deny black lung benefits wins award
August 13, 2014A coal industry conspiracy to deny black lung benefits to tens of thousands of coal miners has won the Heywood Broun Award from The Newspaper Guild.
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Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol
July 15, 2014United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.
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Victor Grossman speaks on the growing right danger in Europe
June 2, 2014Author and journalist Victor Grossman will speak on the growing right danger in Europe as it relates to Ukraine, NATO and European Parliamentary elections.
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Remembering “Hy Climber” Fred Gaboury
May 30, 2014One day in 1953 Fred Gaboury invited me to come to work with him so I could witness first hand his skill in rigging a spar tree high in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. I...
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