Joel Bleifuss is an
American journalist
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Roles
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. He was the editor and publisher of ''
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'', a
Chicago-based non-profit news magazine founded in 1976 by
James Weinstein. During Bleifuss's tenure, the magazine published articles and columns by members of the U.S. Congressional
Progressive Caucus,
Arundhati Roy
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, and
Slavoj Žižek
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He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...
, as well as long-time writers
Susan Douglas,
David Moberg, and
Salim Muwakkil.
Career
Before working at ''In These Times'', Bleifuss was a features writer at the ''Fulton Sun'', in
Fulton, Missouri
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. His criticisms of the public relations industry have appeared in the ''
Utne Reader
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'' and on the op-ed page of ''
The New York Times
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.''
Bleifuss began working as an investigative reporter and columnist for ''In These Times'' in 1986, when it was published as a tabloid newspaper. He became managing editor in 1998 and editor the following year.
Bleifuss writes frequently on U.S. politics, foreign policy, and environmental affairs. His columns have covered an array of topics including
mad-cow disease
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(BSE) and the beef industry,
carcinogens
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in cosmetics, and the "
October Surprise" preceding the
1980 U.S. presidential elections. Bleifuss's articles have been featured on Project Censored's list of suppressed news stories more than those of any other American journalist.
During the years of the
George W. Bush
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administration, Bleifuss published ''Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count''.
He also worked with American novelist
Kurt Vonnegut
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on a variety of articles, interviews, and short comic essays, which were published first in magazines and republished in ''
La Jornada
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'' and other media outlets. ''
A Man Without a Country'', the last book Vonnegut published during his lifetime, includes material that originally appeared in ''In These Times''.
He lives in
Chicago
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,
Illinois
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.
References
External links
In These Times website Selection of Joel Bleifuss's writings.
In These Times website- A portion of ITT content is available free of charge on their website; yearly subscriptions are available for the full print edition
Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count- Book Bleifuss co-authored with Steve Freeman (Published June, 2006)
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Living people
Journalists from Chicago
American magazine publishers (people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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