Washington Spectator

The Washington Spectator

"Since 1974, our feisty bi-weekly bulletin has given independent-minded readers behind-the-scenes insight into significant news that is ignored by the corporate media. In the tradition of I.F. Stone's Weekly, we scour the big dailies, the newsweeklies, the foreign press, and specialist magazines to pull together vital information on major issues of the day, and strip it of the distortions of the spin controllers...

"The Washington Spectator is published by the non-profit, non-partisan Public Concern Foundation Inc."

Staff
Accessed October 2008:


 * President: Hamilton Fish
 * Editor: Lou Dubose
 * Past editors: Ben A. Franklin (1993–2005)
 * Past editors: Tristram Coffin (1974–1993)
 * Associate Editor: Lisa Vandepaer
 * Publisher:  Kevin Walter

Directors
Accessed October 2008:


 * Cynthia Brown, author, editor, civil-liberties and human-rights specialist
 * Leonard Dreyfus and Rhoda Dreyfus, longtime civil-liberties activists
 * John Leonard, media critic, Harper’s magazine, CBS News
 * Pamela Newkirk, professor of journalism, New York University
 * Betsy Reed, executive editor, The Nation
 * Jonathan Schell, author of Fate of the Earth, anti-nuclear activist
 * Ruth Shikes, co-founder, The Washington Spectator

Contact

 * Web: http://www.washingtonspectator.com