Gerard Colby
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Gerard Colby is president of the US National Writers Union
where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he served as chair of the Vermont section.
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Currently (2003) he is working on a book with Dennett about the U.S. in the Middle East.
In 2003 he received the National Press Club's "Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism" for the book Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Prometheus Books, 2002) that was edited by the co-award winner Kristina Borjesson
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He lives in Burlington, Vermont
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National Writers Union
National Writers Union , founded on November 19, 1981, is the trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book and short fiction authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets...
where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997-2001 he served as chair of the Vermont section.
He worked on ..
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: Behind The Nylon Curtain (1974) as the author. The book was the subject of a landmark federal case that was lost by the author in 1984.
- Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon (1995) as co-author with his wife, Charlotte Dennett.
- Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) as collaborator. The book is an anthology on the current state of investigative journalism in the US and was a Amazon.comAmazon.comAmazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
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Currently (2003) he is working on a book with Dennett about the U.S. in the Middle East.
In 2003 he received the National Press Club's "Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism" for the book Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Prometheus Books, 2002) that was edited by the co-award winner Kristina Borjesson
Kristina Borjesson
Kristina Borjesson is a freelance journalist who has won awards for her work in both print and broadcast media. She edited an awardwinning collection of essays, Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press , for which she wrote a chapter detailing her investigation of the...
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He lives in Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....
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