Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay traveled to Boston to earn a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Tufts University. After graduating from Tufts, Lindsay moved to New York City where she briefly worked in pharmaceutical advertising and started her blog Majikthise.
Majikthise was initially conceived as an amalgam of analytic philosophy and liberal politics. However, the politics gradually eclipsed the philosophy as Lindsay spent more and more of her time chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration. Eventually, Majikthise began supplementing her opinion writing with original reporting.
In 2005, Lindsay traveled to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Later that year, her blog readers funded her live coverage of Tom DeLay’s first court appearance in Austin, Texas on money laundering charges. Other major stories she has covered include the New York Transit Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb senate race in Virginia in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006 Lindsay quit her day job in advertising to pursue journalism full-time. She joined the investigative team at Raw Story as a national correspondent specializing in labor, immigration, and crime issues, and worked as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.
Lindsay lectures regularly on blogging and journalism. In April 2007, she delivered the Richardson Memorial Lecture at the University of Gettysburg on the relationship between objectivity and journalism. She has also spoken to the National Organization for Women, the Center for American Progress, and other groups.
Culture
Slacking Workers of the World Unite
We've made an art of wasting time at work. But to what end?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Elliot Rodger’s War on Women
Lindsay Beyerstein
By Ridiculing Redskins, Colbert Made Racism ‘Truthy’
Lindsay Beyerstein
Twitter Is Public. Deal with It.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Liberal Victim Blaming
Lindsay Beyerstein
A Victory for the Rights of Texan Women (But Only If They Are Dead)
Lindsay Beyerstein
Are Cancer Tweets The Same As Funeral Selfies?
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Death of a Brain
Lindsay Beyerstein
Making Fun Of Purity Culture Is Feminist
Lindsay Beyerstein
Case of ‘Forced C-section’ May Not Be What It Seems
Lindsay Beyerstein
Hobby Lobby May Know a Lot About Yarn, But It’s Wrong About Birth Control
Lindsay Beyerstein
Bad Science Reporting: The Birth-Control-Will-Make-You-Go-Blind Scare
Lindsay Beyerstein
Let’s Talk About Campus Shout-Downs
Lindsay Beyerstein
5th Circuit Shutters up to a Third of Texas Abortion Clinics
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 16: Felina (FINALE)
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 15: Granite State
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 14: Ozymandias
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 13: To’hajiilee
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 12: Rabid Dog
Lindsay Beyerstein
Feature
Breaking Bad’s Skyler White: Victim or Villain?
Actress Anna Gunn wants to know why fans hate her character. In These Times' feminist TV critics answer.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 11: Confessions
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 10: Buried
Lindsay Beyerstein
Breaking Bad Recap, Season 5, Episode 9: Blood Money
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Butt Injection Black Market
Lindsay Beyerstein
Why ‘Fetal Pain’ Is Hogwash
Lindsay Beyerstein
‘Legitimate Rape Myth’ Rooted in Fictional Nazi Experiments
Lindsay Beyerstein
Rolling Stone’s Jahar Tsarnaev Cover Is Perfect
Lindsay Beyerstein
McDonald’s Workers Need a Raise, Not a Fantasy Budget
Lindsay Beyerstein
Sexism Matters, That Equinox Ad Doesn’t
Lindsay Beyerstein
It’s a TRAP
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Latest Crazy Republican Arguments About Reproduction
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Problem with ‘Paper Abortions’
Lindsay Beyerstein
Another Klosterfuck
Lindsay Beyerstein
A Deadly FBI Screw-Up
Lindsay Beyerstein
Are You My Daddy?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Boobs React to Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Mastectomy
Lindsay Beyerstein
Cupcake Feminism
Lindsay Beyerstein
No, Matt Yglesias, Bangladeshi Workers Didn’t Choose To Be Crushed To Death
Lindsay Beyerstein
How Not To Respond to the Boston Marathon Bombings
Lindsay Beyerstein
Can Breaking Bad’s Comic Relief Sustain a Spin-Off?
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Ice-Pick-Wielding-Hippie Defense
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Bitch Tap
Lindsay Beyerstein
Princesses and Pandas: Hilary Mantel on Kate Middleton
Lindsay Beyerstein
“Pro-Choice” Mommie Secretly Judging Her Friends
Lindsay Beyerstein
“Truthers” Harass Good Samaritan Who Sheltered Sandy Hook Survivors
Lindsay Beyerstein
Georgia Court Affirms That Life is Not a RomCom
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Best Thing Elizabeth Wurtzel Has Written About Depression (Hint: Not “Prozac Nation”)
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Crackpot Plan to Analyze Adam Lanza’s DNA
Lindsay Beyerstein
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