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Profiles in Hate: KKK files unmask identities of 100’s of secret Klan members

April 6, 2018 by wpfixit

The Loyal White Knights of the KKK disrobed Exclusive: 18 month investigation inside the most dangerous Ku Klux Klan faction in America reveals armed Confederacy of Dunces (This is the third article in a three part series on the internal culture of the Loyal White Knights, America’s most active and extremist Ku Klux Klan faction. Links to Part One […]

Filed Under: Chris Barker, Chris Barker KKK, Freelance Journalism, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights of the KKK, Religious Extremism, U.S. Extremists, U.S. religious zealots, U.S. terrorism, Uncategorized, White Nationalist, White Supremacism, White Supremecist Tagged With: Amanda Barker, Chris Barker, James Seay KKK, Kevin Beair, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights, Nate Coty, Nate Thayer

Freelance Journalism: Robot sex poll reveals I Got Invited–then disinvited–as guest on Huffington Post TV

April 11, 2017 by wpfixit

Robot Sex Poll Reveals Huffington Post Uses Slave Plantation Economic Business Model to Convince Writers to Work for No Pay: “You Should be Grateful We Let You be Our ‘House Negro’ or You’d be Picking Cotton in the Fields With the Rest of the Slaves” (This story was published four years ago today on an […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist Tagged With: adrianna huffington, Freelance Journalism, Huffington Post, Nate Thayer, The Atlantic

Evil Lawyer Tricks: Gag Orders, Free Speech, and Non-Disclosure Agreements

February 5, 2016 by wpfixit

Evil Lawyer Tricks: Gag Orders, Free Speech, and Non-Disclosure Agreements By Nate Thayer February 6, 2016 Yesterday, I was contacted, unsolicited, by the folks who are responsible for the epic TV hit reality series “Housewives of New Jersey.” They appear to want to make me a TV star. “Hi Nate, My name is Karen XXXXXX […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, Free Speech, Freedom of speech, Freelance Journalism, Writers Tagged With: Lawyers, Leftfield entertainment, Non disclosure agreements

Journalists say they prefer risk of beheading in Syria than reporting Ebola

October 6, 2014 by wpfixit

U.S. Journalist with Ebola Highlights Special Terror Reporters Face Covering Disease Pandemic By Nate Thayer October 6, 2014 An American journalist stricken with the Ebola virus in Liberia has highlighted the unique dangers faced by reporters covering the rapidly growing disease pandemic, many of whom say they feel safer covering the wars in Syria where […]

Filed Under: Freelance Journalism, Journalism, Middle East, Nate Thayer, Pay the Writer, War correspondent Tagged With: ebola, ebola journalists, Freelance Journalism, Nate Thayer, War Correspondent

Artist to Showtime: offer of “exposure” but no $’s “devalues the work of everyone”

August 16, 2014 by wpfixit

Graphic artist asked by entertainment giant Showtime to work for no pay, rather “invaluable national exposure across multiple platforms.” Responds appropriately, says Showtime is “unethical”, “devalues the work of everyone” By Nate Thayer August 16, 2014 Dan Cassaro, a graphic artist who runs a design business in Brooklyn, New York, received an email from the giant Showtime entertainment […]

Filed Under: #paythemusican, #Paythewriter, Freelance Journalism, Freelancers Rights, Nate Thayer, Pay the Writer Tagged With: "PAYTHEWRITER, #paythemusician, Freelance Journalism, Nate Thayer

Is a freelance journalism career a Sisyphean delusion?

June 6, 2014 by wpfixit

Why today I think continuing my career as a freelance journalist may be a Sisyphean, untenable delusion   By Nate Thayer June 5, 2014 Here is an update with further evidence suggesting that making a viable living as a professional freelance journalist and writer is an untenable, Sisyphean delusion: I was sitting at my desk yesterday morning, […]

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ABC News Exposed for Threats Demanding Undue Credit for Pulitzer Prize

April 17, 2014 by wpfixit

Center for Public Integrity Responds with Epic Smack Down after ABC News tries to Retroactively Steal Credit from Investigative Journalist Pulitzer Winner Chris Hamby By Nate Thayer April 16, 2014 On Monday April 14, the excellent investigative journalist, Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity, won the Pulitzer Prize for best Investigative Reporting for […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, ABC News, ABC News Plagiarism, Blog Nate Thayer, Center for Public Integrity, Freelance Journalism, Journalistic Ethics, Nate Thayer, Pay the Writer Tagged With: ABC News, ABC News Plagiarism, Center for Public Integrity, Freelance Journalism, Journalism ethics, Nate Thayer

The Free Press is Dead–Temporarily

March 19, 2014 by wpfixit

By Nate Thayer March 19, 2014 Don’t believe anything you read in the media anymore. I don’t And spare me the “Mainstream Media” hyperbole. It doesn’t exist. The truth is that the so-called mainstream media, or the tattered shreds of its remaining vestiges, are considerably more trustworthy than the anarchy of online sleuths who never […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, #sympathyforthedevil, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil, Uncategorized Tagged With: #sympathyforthedevil, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil

A Freelance Journalist’s High Praise and Kind Words for Sympathy for the Devil

March 18, 2014 by wpfixit

High Praise from a freelance journalist for Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge: “The book also promises to be a rollicking account of a bygone era of journalism, when reporters were colorful characters who nonetheless possessed serious intent and influence. The remarkable thing is that Thayer did it as a […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil book, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cambodia, Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil book

How–And Why-The New York Times Didn’t Interview Pol Pot

January 23, 2014 by wpfixit

How–and Why– The New York Times Didn’t Interview Pol Pot By Nate Thayer January 23, 2014 After I interviewed Pol Pot in July and October 1997, my excellent magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review–the sister publication of the Wall Street Journal and both owned by Dow Jones–nominated me and the story for a Pulitzer Prize. […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot, Pol Pot Interview, Sympathy for the Devil, Ta Mok, U.S. State Department Tagged With: Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Journalism ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot, Pol Pot Interview, Sympathy for the Devil

A Reporter’s Trek Through Cambodian Minefields, Pursued By Soldiers

January 22, 2014 by wpfixit

A Trek Through Minefields, Pursued By Soldiers From my files: News articles I am digitally archiving here on this blog site. This story was written in 1990 after a many weeks walk deep through the jungle with Cambodian guerrillas. It was the first independent confirmation of guerrilla claims of advances made during the then 11-year […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Cambodian War, Freelance Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil by Nate Thayer, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, War Correspondent

The Private Letters of a Foreign Correspondent: Communicating With the Khmer Rouge; CIA Spy Accusations; Nomination for a Pulitzer Prize

January 21, 2014 by wpfixit

Select Private Correspondence from the Files of a Foreign Correspondent:  By Nate Thayer I have been doing some tinkering and final revisions and editing of my upcoming book Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge  and have been distracted as I sort out old papers, correspondence, raw notes, and files, many which have […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Cambodia coup, Freelance Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil

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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional services for an article they sought to publish after reading my story “25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Rodman trip comes after 25 years of […]

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Journalist Nate Thayer views the body of Pol Pot

The Night Pol Pot Died: Excerpts from unpublished manuscript “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: A JOURNALIST’S MEMOIR INSIDE POL POT’S KHMER ROUGE” By Nate Thayer

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