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Message From the Publisher
Dear Readers:
The purpose of our Web magazine is to provide you with insightful and accurate reporting on current subjects and on issues that need to be brought to your attention. We want to challenge conventional wisdom. We seek to offer a solid and reliable resource for those of you who want to explore particular topics by drilling deeply. In addition, it is our mission to create a home for thoughtful, provocative ideas from talented contributors and editors.
We'd like to hear from you about what works and what doesn't work as our site evolves. Comments are welcome and can be sent to .
Thank you for joining our Dig!
Sincerely,
Zuade Kaufman, Publisher
Truthdig - The Site
Truthdig is a Web magazine that provides expert coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. The site is built around reports by authorities in their fields who conduct in-depth exploration of contemporary topics. To offer frequent change and surprise, the magazine also presents a diversity of original reporting and aggregated content culled by the site's editors and staff.
Background
In this hyperlinked, blog-filled, talk-show-dominated world, discourse is often a food fight. It is increasingly difficult for people seeking to understand the world to find stories in depth, told by those who know their topic best.
An exception in 2004 was "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq," by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Robert Scheer, co-authored with his son Christopher Scheer and reporter Lakshmi Chaudhry and funded by readers of the Web site Alternet.org. Despite receiving little play in the media, the book, which describes the roots of the Iraq quagmire, received publicity via the Internet, alternative radio shows and word of mouth and landed on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list. Three decades earlier, Pulitzer Prize finalist Scheer had challenged conventional thinking with 1965's groundbreaking "How the U.S. Got Involved in Vietnam," which helped to launch a new era of investigative reporting.
The lesson was that if you respect the story and present it in a clear way, it will find an audience. There have always been and will always be people digging for the truth, rather than simply accepting the conventional wisdom of the day. It is these people we hope to reach with our Web magazine, Truthdig.
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Truthdig was co-founded by Los Angeles entrepreneur Zuade Kaufman, who serves as publisher, and journalist Robert Scheer, the Web site's editor.
Kaufman, who holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California, is a former reporter for the Westside Weekly, a Los Angeles Times publication. A photojournalist, she occasionally shoots portraits and photo essays for Truthdig.
Syndicated columnist Robert Scheer, based at the San Francisco Chronicle, is also a syndicated radio talk-show host on NPR and author of several acclaimed books, including, most recently, "Playing President: My Relationships With Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton -- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush"
Wasserman, a director of Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson and manager of its New York office, was editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review from 1996 to 2005 and a principal architect of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Peter Scheer, the son of journalists Robert Scheer and Narda Zacchino, grew up in the newspaper business. He graduated with a communication degree from the University of Southern California and, after working in the movie business, joined Truthdig, where he is now managing editor.
After earning a degree in English literature and sociology at Swarthmore College, Anderson worked as a Web journalist in San Francisco and as an entertainment reporter for the New York Daily News. She has also written freelance pieces for Salon.com and the Orlando Sentinel, among other publications. At the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, she received a master's degree. In addition to being Truthdig's associate editor, she is writing a doctoral dissertation on celebrity and politics.
Truthdig Contributors

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Contributors
The following is the complete list of contributors to Truthdig.
Chris Abani, Contributor
Kasia Anderson, Associate Editor
David Antoon, Contributor
Mark Arax, Reviewer
Jabari Asim, Columnist
Sheerly Avni, Contributor
The Rev. Ed Bacon, Contributor
Charles Baker-Boyd, Intern
Benjamin Barber, Contributor
Arthur Blaustein, Contributor
Larry Blumenfeld, Reviewer
Andy Borowitz, Contributing Columnist
Fred Branfman, Reviewer
Carol Brightman, Contributor
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Contributor
Ken Catalino, Cartoonist
John Cheney, Editorial Assistant
Marie Cocco, Columnist
Andrew Cockburn, Contributor
Patrick Cockburn, Contributor
Elliot Cohen, Contributor
Warren I. Cohen, Reviewer
Juan Cole, Contributor
Robert Collier, Contributor
Joe Conason, Columnist
Paul Conrad, Cartoonist
Marc Cooper, Contributor
John Crawford, Contributor
Paul Cummins, Contributor
Tad Daley, Contributor
Elizabeth de la Vega, Contributor
John Dean, Contributor
E.J. Dionne, Jr., Columnist
Mark Dowie, Reviewer
Will Durst, Contributor
Rosa Elizalde, Contributor
Adam Elkus, Contributor
Daniel Ellsberg, Contributor
Tom Engelhardt, Contributor
Jason Epstein, Contributor
Reese Erlich, Contributor
John Mack Faragher, Contributor
Mike Farrell, Contributor
Mark Fiore, Contributing Cartoonist
Mr. Fish, Cartoonist
Robert Fisk, Contributor
Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Contributor
Gene Gerard, Contributor
Todd Gitlin, Contributor
Aaron Glantz, Contributor
Stan Goff, Contributor
Barry Golson, Contributor
Tyler Golson, Contributor
Amy Goodman, Columnist
Ellen Goodman, Columnist
Michael Gorra, Contributor
Roger Gould, Contributor
Larry Gross, Contributor
Andrew Gumbel, Contributor
Theodore Hamm, Contributor
Sam Harris, Contributor
Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi, Contributors
Tom Hayden, Contributor
Anthony Heilbut, Reviewer
Doug Henwood, Contributor
Dahr Jamail, Contributor
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Chalmers Johnson, Contributor
Troy Jollimore, Reviewer
Carla Kaplan, Contributor
Zachary Karabell, Contributor
Zuade Kaufman, Publisher
Parag Khanna, Contributor
Steven Kotler, Contributor
Ron Kovic, Contributor
Dennis Kucinich, Contributor
Stanley Kutler, Contributor
Saul Landau, Contributor
Barry Lando, Contributor
Mike Luckovich, Cartoonist
John Lukacs, Reviewer
Jeff Madrick, Reviewer
Mark Malseed, Contributor
Yxta Maya Murray, Reviewer
David Moore, Contributor
Cristina Nehring, Contributor
Christian Parenti, Contributor
Sergei Plekhanov, Contributor
Dwayne Powell, Cartoonist
Eugene Robinson, Contributor
Nir Rosen, Dig Leader
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, Contributor
Heather Sarantis, Contributor
Mark Sarvas, Contributor
Jeremy Scahill, Contributor
Peter Scheer, Managing Editor
Robert Scheer, Editor in Chief
Orville Schell, Contributor
Nicholas Schmidle, Contributor
Sharon Scranage, Contributor
Barry F. Seidman, Contributor
The Rev. Madison Shockley, Contributor
Nicholas Shumaker, Contributor
Aram Sinnreich, Contributor
David Sirota, Contributor
Travis Smith, Web Developer
Timothy Snyder, Reviewer
Norman Solomon, Columnist
Paul Szep, Cartoonist
Sunsara Taylor, Contributor
Kevin Tillman, Contributor
Scott Tucker, Contributor
Gore Vidal, Contributor
Milton Viorst, Reviewer
Nicholas von Hoffman, Contributor
Richard Walden, Contributor
Curren Warf, Contributor
Steve Wasserman, Literary Editor
Bernard Weisberger, Contributor
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Reviewer
Jon Wiener, Contributor
Wellford Wilms, Contributor
Eunice Wong, Contributor
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