Michael C. Moynihan
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Michael C. Moynihan is a senior editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com.

Before joining Reason, Moynihan was a resident fellow at the Swedish policy institute Timbro and edited the English-language Stockholm Spectator. He is currently a visiting fellow at Timbro.

Moynihan is a frequent commenter in the Swedish media and has written for Expressen, Aftonbladet, Sveriges Television, and Göteborgs-Tidningen. He serves on the editorial board of the Swedish magazine Neo, where he is also a regular columnist. In 2006, Moynihan produced a documentary for Stockholm's TV8 on New York radio legend Barry Farber. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Utne Reader, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Weekly Standard, Wilson Quarterly, Politico, and numerous other publications

Moynihan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received a B.A. in history. He lives in Washington, DC.

Blog Entries by Michael C. Moynihan

Daily Show, Pundits Shouldn't Dismiss Twitter's Vital Role in Iran Coverage

Posted June 22, 2009 | 17:04:37 (EST)

In a 1979 column on the abdication of the Shah, William F. Buckley noted with wonderment that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's agitprop communiques, divined from his Parisian exile and recorded onto audio cassettes for distribution in Tehran, had roused a restive Iranian population into rebellion. "Electronic communications," Buckley wrote, "which are...

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Newspaper Bailout Hypocrisy

Posted May 20, 2009 | 16:31:00 (EST)

With the proliferation of news on the Internet, Americans aren't supporting their local newspapers. Circulation and ad revenues are way down, while web readership at places like the Huffington Post and my publication, Reason magazine -- where the news is likely to be free and up-to-the-minute -- is way up....

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