Ambush Kills 10 Guards in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2006 The Iraqi civil war rages on, and the traditional media continue to ignore it. Also, the young kidnapped American reporter is given 72 hours to live. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abductors Threaten to Kill American Journalist

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2006 The 28-year-old female stringer for the Christian Science Monitor appears in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera. | storyThe AP has more info. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sunni Iraqis Protest Mosque Raid

Staff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2006 The action, in search of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll, comes on the heels of a raid of a Sunni scholar group. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Reporter Abducted in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 Twenty-eight-year-old freelance reporter Jill Carroll is the first American female journalist to be kidnapped during the war. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Troops Seize Acclaimed Iraqi Journalist

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2006 Award-winning reporter was investigating alleged U.S. misappropriation of Iraqi funds; bullets fired into a bedroom containing his wife, children | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraqi Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2006 The same Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print pro-U.S. stories written by American soldiers masquerading as indepenent journalists has also been "compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work," according to the New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What Are They Teaching in Journalism Schools?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 2, 2005 The news that a Time magazine reporter plotted with the attorney for Karl Rove is a window into the den of iniquity that is Washington journalism. As the late great Washington journalist I.F. Stone once put it, "Better to stay in your bathtub reading reports than to have that sort of corrupting access." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Welcome to Truthdig

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 29, 2005 Check out the quote at the top of the page from legendary media critic A.J. Liebling and you'll know why we've launched this website. Publisher Zuade Kaufman states our goals in the About Us section. As for me, it just feels good to be an owner of this little corner of the media world, playing host to fine journalists like the ones you'll find on this page. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )