I scanned social media headlines on my way to this year’s Ridenhour Awards at the National Press Club. The awards, which I covered last year for the Washington Monthly, have significantly elevated the profile of whistleblowers. I was looking for a couple of issues that I thought might have grabbed Ron Ridenhour’s attention. Did the […]
Michael Clifford Longman
Michael Clifford Longman is a freelance journalist based in New York who contributes to CityLimits and Public News Service. He worked in radio and television news in New Orleans for 25 years. Follow him on Twitter at @mlcliff.
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From My Lai to Mortgages: The Importance of Whistleblowers
He delivered the biggest scoop of the war as a former soldier—his account of a search and destroy mission where U.S. infantry soldiers killed unarmed women and children in Viet Nam changed the course of history—and all I could offer him was a part-time reporting gig where we paid him using a company gas card. […]
