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Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra!.

Education

Lindorff graduated from Wesleyan University in 1972 with a Bachelor in Chinese language.

Career

And Salon.com. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004, 2011 and 2012. Born in 1949, Lindorff lives just outside Philadelphia. He then received an Mississippi in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975.

A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, 1991-1992 and Taiwan, 2004), he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 1978-1979.

Lindorff also worked at the Minneapolis Tribune (now the Star Tribune), the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and the Middletown Press in Connecticut. Lindorff has also done journalism related to the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

He is the author of four books, the most recent being Bush from Office, written with attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights. As well as Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

He was also active in the Hong Kong Journalists Association during his five years in Hong Kong, when he was a correspondent for Businessweek magazine.

Achievements

  • A former bureau chief covering Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a reporter-producer for Public Broadcasting Service station KCET in Los Angeles, Lindorff was also a founder and editor of the weekly Los Angeles Vanguard newspaper, established in 1976, where he won the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Press Club for his reporting. Lindorff has been active on journalistic issues and was a founder of the National Writers Union in 1983, serving for many years in leadership positions in that union.