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Monthly Archives: August 2011

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The women bringing solar power…

August 19, 2011 maria

The women bringing solar power to Sierra Leone | Meena Bhandari http://t.co/O6Snv4g via @guardian. great article by a great media company.

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just did an hourlong interview…

August 10, 2011 maria

just did an hourlong interview w/KPFK’s Uprising show: http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=22901

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

August 9, 2011 maria

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-armoudian/post_2292_b_920867.html

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Check out “Kill the Messenger:…

August 5, 2011 maria

Check out “Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World” http://t.co/AXfdBI3 via @eventbrite

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The True Scandals of News Corps–Beyond Phone-Hacking

August 5, 2011 maria

What are the true sins of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation?  There are many, but among them is the degradation of the journalistic institution itself, and as a result, the health of the planet. Here is a piece I wrote for Grist where I explain:

http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-08-03-murdochs-sins-go-way-beyond-the-hacking-scandal

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Murdoch’s sins go way beyond…

August 3, 2011 maria

Murdoch’s sins go way beyond the hacking scandal: http://t.co/XXhOvmh via @grist

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Maria Armoudian is the author of two books, Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous Future and Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World. She is a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the host and producer of the syndicated radio program, The Scholars’ Circle. Maria served as an environmental commissioner for the City of Los Angeles for five years,  on the Board of Taxi Cab Commissioners for two and worked on environmental protection, government oversight, poverty reduction, civil rights, and corporate reform legislation for the California State Legislature for eight years, Her articles have been published by the Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The New Zealand Herald, the Los Angeles Daily News, Grist, the Progressive, Salon.com, Truthout, Alternet, Inc., Daily Variety, and Billboard. She also a songwriter & musician. Her CD is called Life in the New World. here.

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