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Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein is a National Political Reporter for In These Times.com, who also works as a national correspondent for Raw Story and as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now. Her work can also be read at her blog, Majikthise.

Lindsay Beyerstein is an investigative photojournalist and blogger based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay travelled 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. She also works as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.

Lindsay’s prose and photographs have appeared in Salon, Slate, TIME Magazine, the New York Press, AlterNet, and the Austin Chronicle, among other publications. She 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. She is a regular guest on Harry Raines’ American AM Radio program out of Tampa.

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