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.
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Unions To Hold Preemptive Jazz Funeral in Madison for Welfare Programs
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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital
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How a Govt. Shutdown Would Affect Federal Workers—and Everyone Else
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Weekly Pulse: The Republicans’ War on Women
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Weekly Audit: A Recall Fight Brewing in Wisconsin?
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Amendment to Thwart Airport Security Officers’ Bargaining Rights Defeated in Senate
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Weekly Pulse: South Dakota’s Legislative Attack on Abortion Providers
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Weekly Audit: HBGary Federal and The Chamber of Secrets
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A Former TSA Officer Speaks Out On Collective Bargaining
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Weekly Pulse: New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed
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TSA Head Approves Very Limited Bargaining Rights for Baggage Screeners
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Weekly Audit: Crashing the Koch’s Billionaire Caucus
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Craig Becker vs. Chamber of Commerce, Round Two: Obama Re-Nominates Labor Lawyer to NLRB
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Weekly Pulse: Don’t Snort Bath Salts, Kids
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Weekly Audit: Wall Street Destroyed $8 for Every $1 Earned
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‘Radium Halos’ Dramatizes Grisly Chapter of U.S. Labor History
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Illinois Town to Honor Memory of ‘Radium Girls’ Poisoned at Work
Lindsay Beyerstein
Weekly Pulse: Giffords Shooting Reveals Flaws in U.S. Mental Health Services
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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords
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Weekly Audit: Sanders Filibusters Tax Cuts, Electrifies the Left
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More Questions About AMA’s Workplace Disability Bible
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Weekly Audit: Tax Cuts for Rich Extended
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Congress Asks Tough Questions About AMA Disability Bible
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Red Bracelets for Menstruating Workers a Red Flag for Norse Union
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Weekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics
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Weekly Audit: A Progressive Deficit Fix?
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The Twelve Days of Capitalism
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The Weekly Pulse: Food Rules, X-Ray Scanners and Whole Foods
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TSA: Pilots’ Junk Off Limits, Flight Attendants’ Fair Game
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Pilots’ Unions Say ‘No’ to Invasive TSA Airport Scans
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Weekly Pulse: The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean, and Smoking Hipsters
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Weekly Audit: Curbing the Deficit, Cat Food, and You
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Making it Explicit: Condoms, Porn, and Cal/OSHA (Part III)
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Weekly Pulse: The Coming War on Health Reform and Government Cheese
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Weekly Audit: Banks Get Big Bucks, Consumers Get Bupkis
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Making it Explicit: Condoms, Porn and Cal/OSHA (Part II)
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Making it Explicit: Condoms, Porn and Cal/OSHA (Part I)
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Weekly Pulse: What Do GOP Gains Mean for Health Care? Abortion Rights?
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Weekly Audit: Your Vote, Your Economy—Why Today’s Election Matters to Your Pocketbook
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Do You Get Paid Time Off Work to Vote?
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Unionbusting Firm Likens Organizers to Terrorists
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Weekly Pulse: Fear-mongering and Fetal Separatism in Today’s Anti-Choice Movement
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Weekly Audit: Surprise! Bailed Out Banks Backing Anti-Bailout Candidates
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Jimmy John’s Workers Narrowly Reject Union—and Underscore Potential Power of EFCA
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NFL Crackdown on Violent Hits Won’t Stop Football’s Concussion Problem
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Weekly Audit: Foreclosure Crisis Hits Home
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Jenna Jameson Calls for Porn Star Union After Actor’s Positive HIV Test
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Positive HIV Test Puts Porn Valley on Ice
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