Dan Froomkin

Dan Froomkin is a journalist, a correspondent for the Huffington Post, the U.S. capital Washington DC was responsible. He is also known for his blog, " White House Watch" The Washington Post and also worked for The Intercept since 2014. There he lives up to its statutes with violations of civil rights, corruption, judicial abuse, and social injustice - but especially the preparation of documents for global surveillance and espionage, which are provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden available. Froomkin is Knight - Wallace Fellow.

Life & work

Dom Froomkin worked during his ongoing since the 1980s career for various media, such as the Miami Herald, the Winston- Salem Journal, the Orange County Register and the journal for educators Education Week.

In 1997 he began as in the Washington Post, from 2001 to 2003 he was editor there. In 2004 he published then in his own White House Watch blog daily texts for events to people and politics of the White House until he left the newspaper in 2009.

Froomkin is the deputy editor of the Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask blogs, which is operated by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Since February 2014 he has worked as a jour List for the financially and editorially independent portal The Intercept that mainly deals with the documents that led to the Global surveillance and espionage, busy.