Dave Lindorff


Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004, 2011 and 2012.
Born in 1949, Lindorff lives just outside Philadelphia.

Career

Lindorff graduated from Wesleyan University in 1972 with a BA in Chinese language. He then received an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1975. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 1978-79.
awarded by the Park Center for Independent Media. The prize, honored his career work as an investigative journalism and especially his which showed how the Pentagon has been simply making up the numbers in over two decades of annual financial reports submitted to Congress in "support" of ever higher funding requests for each next year's budgets.
He is also founding editor of the collectively run journalism news site, along with six other journalists: Laurie Dobson, John Grant, Jess Guh, Alfredo Lopez, Ron Ridenour and Linn Washington, Jr., along and resident poet Gary Lindorff. The news site since its founding in June 2010 has won seven Project Censored awards for its coverage, and was labeled a "threat" in a memo TCBH! obtained through a FOIA filing with the Dept. of Homeland Security which was sent to all US Fusion Centers warning that ThisCantBeHappeing.net had published an Movement in late 2011. Lindorff responded by the phrase: "The only news organization in the US to be labeled a threat by the Department of Homeland Security"
A former bureau chief covering Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a reporter-producer for PBS station KCET in Los Angeles and its Emmy-winning investigative news program "28-Tonight," 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 as well as an award for Best Article in a Weekly. Lindorff also worked at the Minneapolis Tribune, the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and the Middletown Press in Connecticut.
Lindorff wrote an exposé showing how colleges refuse to provide official/sealed transcripts to former students “late in their payments” or “in default”, thereby ensuring those students cannot transfer to another school in the U.S. until the initial school is satisfied with its debt collection. Lindorff has called the practice “extortive”.
He is the author of four books, the most recent being The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. 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.That work, published in 2003 by Common Courage Press, Lindorff's book "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu JamalMumia Abu-Jamal., was reviewed by Steve Weinberg in the Philadelphia Inquirer who called it: “The most thorough book yet by an author without direct involvement in the murder case.” Another reviewer, M.A. Foley, wrote in "Choice" magazine: “The death row case of Mumia Abu-Jamal remains contentious. Lindorff removes much of that contention….No one can walk away from this book believing that justice has been done, on behalf of either the slain officer or the convicted Abu-Jamal. Summing it up: Highly recommended." Crime magazine wrote: "New favorite: A groundbreaking review of the case involving Mumia Abu-Jamal, while Charles M. Young, in "Z Magazine, wrote: "A relentless and resourceful reporter...a vast symphony of facts that establishes a number of compelling themes in search of a grand finale compatible with justice."
Lindorff has long 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. He was also active in the Hong Kong Journalists Assn. during his five years in Hong Kong, when he was a correspondent for Businessweek magazine.

Books