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Jeremy Scahill

Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow

Before coming to The Nation Institute, Scahill was a longtime senior producer and correspondent for the nationally-syndicated radio and TV show Democracy Now! and he remains a frequent contributor to the program. He has reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Scahill reported from Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO bombing and spent years covering the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's government. He has also reported from Nigeria, where he and colleague Amy Goodman exposed the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the killing of protesting villagers in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina in September 2005, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans. His reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation.

Scahill has won numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award and numerous Project Censored Awards. He was among the few Western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a Golden Reel for "Best National Radio News Story" of 2002. He also worked in 2000 as a producer for Michael Moore's TV series The Awful Truth on the Bravo network. Scahill has reported for The Times of London, the Sunday Telegraph, the BBC and public radio. He has also written for The Los Angeles Times, Z Magazine, In These Times, The Progressive, among others, as well as on many independent media websites.

Scahill's latest book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, thoroughly revised and updated to include the Nisour Square massacre, was released in paperback edition this June.

Selected Articles and Appearances:

Jeremy Scahill reports for Democracy Now!
Video/Transcript | Democracy Now! | August 26, 2008

Blackwater's Bright Future
Opinion | Los Angeles Times | June 16, 2008

Jeremy Scahill on Real Time with Bill Maher
Appearance | HBO | 11 p.m. EST, April 18, 2008

Jeremy Scahill on the "Corporate Pillaging and Military Contractors" panel
Testimony Part 1 | Winter Soldier Hearings | April 8, 2008

See the second part and third part of Scahill's testimony.

Samantha Power v. Jeremy Scahill
Debate | Democracy Now! | February 22, 2008

Bill Moyers Journal: Ask Jeremy Scahill
Appearance | PBS | October 18, 2007

Jeremy Scahill Testifies on Defense Contracting
Appearance | House Appropriations Sub-committee on Defense | May 10, 2007

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