Dan Froomkin

Dan Froomkin

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Dan Froomkin writes washingtonpost.com's White House Watch column, a spirited daily anthology of White House-related items from news Web sites, blogs and other sources. Dan is also deputy editor of NiemanWatchdog.org, a Web site from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University that encourages reporters to ask more probing questions and hold the powerful accountable.

Dan previously worked as a producer and editor at washingtonpost.com. He joined the Web site in 1997 as senior producer for politics and was second-in-command of editorial operations from 2000 to 2003.

Before that, Dan spent ten years as a daily newspaper reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Orange County Register. In 1995, he was a Michigan Journalism Fellow. In 1996, he served as Editor of New Media for Education Week.

Blog Entries by Dan Froomkin

Celebrating I.F. Stone's Birthday

Posted March 6, 2008 | 04:32 PM (EST)

I.F. Stone's 100th birthday comes at what feels like a real low point in terms of the iconoclastic, independent journalism with which Stone is so unmistakably identified.

So it's particularly appropriate that the observations of Stone's birthday aren't just fond looks back at the rebel journalist's storied career; they...

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Citizen Journalists, Start Your Engines!

5 Comments | Posted December 4, 2007 | 03:44 PM (EST)

Bloggers and other citizen journalists have a new and exciting opportunity to find and shed light on stories the mainstream media are missing -- by combing through transcripts of recent Congressional oversight hearings. Without any fanfare, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has started posting preliminary transcripts of many...

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