On Friday, British journalist Johann Hari revealed that he will not be returning to the Independent. Hari took leave from the newspaper last year ...
Mark Donne | Posted 11.15.2011
Reporters and commentators writing on issues including social deprivation and inequality who have lived and breathed social deprivation and inequality; good heavens, what would that look like?
The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung and Jack Mirkinson | Posted 11.14.2011
After being accused of repeated acts of plagiarism and stripped of a major prize, columnist Johann Hari apologized for his journalistic misconduct in ...
Joanna Papageorgiou | Posted 10.22.2011
Johann Hari has been branded as a leftie, gay columnist who rose to fame too young and is now paying the price for some sloppy techniques.
The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 09.26.2011
British columnist Johann Hari has been stripped of the Orwell Prize, one of Britain's most prestigious journalism awards. The organizers of the pr...
Katherine Fung | Posted 09.19.2011
The trouble is deepening for British journalist Johann Hari. The Independent's star columnist (and a blogger for The Huffington Post), Hari has al...
Katherine Fung | Posted 09.11.2011
British newspaper The Independent has suspended journalist Johann Hari for two months pending an investigation into allegations that he used an online...
Posted 08.31.2011
UPDATE: The Orwell Prize has issued a statement about the plagiarism allegations surrounding Johann Hari: "Given the seriousness of the allegations th...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of B-movie actor-turned-conservative president, Ronal...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a squalid little irony when you see people who are literally bombing innocent civilians every day feverishly accuse a man who has never touched a weapon in his life of being "covered in blood."
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Seven months out from the midterms, electoral anxieties are hampering potential climate change legislation. ...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011
A good way to fuel bigoted behavior is to make dissidents feel like they don't have an outlet for their frustrations.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011
I recently figured that if British journalists who come to Dubai don't send back something sensationalist it won't get printed and they won't get paid. After all, sleaze sells.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011
It's important not to demonize Somalians, even the Somalian pirates. When we demonize our enemies, they become less than human, and it becomes easy to apply such blanket rhetoric as "terrorists."
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011
Take this fact: Over $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are "being stolen every year by illegal trawlers" off Somalia's coast, forcing the fishing industry there into a state of virtual non-existence.
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out.
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menaces of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
It should be part of everyone's New Year routine to ask: Who did we overrate in '08, and who didn't get their due? These are my proposals.
Posted 01.20.2012