[Imc-chicago-audio] In These Times' muckrakers available for interview

[Publishing Intern]

MEDIA ALERT June 13, 2007 | For Immediate Release

In These Times welcomes new web reporters

In These Times magazine is pleased to announce the addition of 
investigative journalists Lindsay Beyerstein and Megan Tady to its team 
of writers as part of a generous grant from the Puffin Foundation First 
Amendment Fund. Beyerstein and Tady’s muckraking will appear weekly on 
www.inthesetimes.com.

Beyerstein and Tady are available for interview on a variety of social 
issue topics, including labor, the environment, immigration, corporate 
accountability, public health and civil liberties. For more 
information, contact Associate Publisher Erin Polgreen at 
erin at inthesetimes.com.

Lindsay Beyerstein is an investigative photojournalist and blogger 
based in New York. In 2005, Beyerstein traveled to New Orleans to cover 
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina via her blog, Majikthise 
(http://majikthise.typepad.com). Beyerstein’s live coverage of Tom 
DeLay's first court appearance on money laundering charges was entirely 
funded by Majikthise readers. She has also covered the New York Transit 
Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb Virginia Senate race. 
Beyerstein’s writing has appeared in Salon, Slate, Time, the New York 
Press, AlterNet and the Austin Chronicle.

“I hope to cover a variety of issues,” Beyerstein says. “I'm passionate 
about labor, immigration, public corruption, and women's issues, and 
[have plans] to write about the many ways in which privatization is 
undermining democracy--from the Blackwater mercenaries fighting 
America's wars to the right-wing think tanks writing our public school 
textbooks.”

“At What Price Victory?”, Beyerstein’s first article for In These 
Times, parses the House Democrats’ proposal to increase funding for the 
discredited and controversial Community-Based Abstinence Education 
program. For the full text of this article, visit: 
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3224.

Megan Tady is a freelance journalist based in western Massachusetts. As 
a staff reporter for The NewStandard, Tady authored nearly 100 
articles, including an investigation into the New Jersey government’s 
attempts to buy polluted land for low-income schools and an exposé of 
the U.S. government’s collaboration with a biotech firm to hide 
contaminated genetically engineered rice from the public. Tady’s 
investigative reporting has appeared in Clamor, CommonDreams, E 
(Environmental) Magazine, Maisonneuve, PopandPolitics, Reuters and 
Toward Freedom.

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In These Times is a national, monthly magazine of news and opinion 
published in Chicago. For 30 years, In These Times has featured 
award-winning investigative reporting about corporate and government 
wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, 
and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. To 
learn more about In These Times, visit www.inthesetimes.com.
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