American journalist
David Neiwert
is an American freelance journalist and
blogger
. He received the
National Press Club
Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000 for a
domestic terrorism
series he produced for
MSNBC
's website.
[1]
Neiwert has concentrated in part on extremism in the Northwest.
[2]
Work
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He worked at newspapers around the
Pacific Northwest
from 1978 to 1996, notably in
Idaho
(at
Sandpoint
,
Blackfoot
,
Lewiston
,
Moscow
, and
Twin Falls
);
Montana
(
Missoula
); and in western
Washington
(
Kent
,
Bellevue
, and
Seattle
). He went to work at MSNBC.com in 1996 as a writer-producer, where he continued through late 2000. Since then, he has focused on writing books and producing his blog
Orcinus
, which tends to report on the crossover between the mainstream and the far right. The blog won early recognition in the
liberal
blogosphere in the form of consecutive Koufax Awards for Best Series in 2003 and 2004.
[
citation needed
]
The
Northwest Progressive Institute
named its annual awards to the region's best liberal bloggers after Neiwert.
[3]
He edited the political blog
Crooks And Liars
from 2008 to 2012. As of 2018, Neiwert worked with the
Southern Poverty Law Center
as their Pacific Northwest correspondent.
[4]
His book,
And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
, won the
2014 International Latino Book Award
for general nonfiction.
In January 2019, Neiwert left the SPLC blog
Hatewatch
to join
Daily Kos
as a correspondent.
[5]
Neiwert's 2020 book
Red Pill, Blue Pill
discusses how radicalization and conspiracy theories may be opposed on the individual level.
[6]
[7]
Personal life
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Neiwert was raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He comes from a German-American background and was brought up in
Methodist
Christianity
. According to Neiwert, sympathy for the
John Birch Society
was widespread amongst the population he grew up surrounded by and is "probably part of why I'm immune to conspiracism."
[5]
Neiwert attended the
University of Idaho
, where he obtained his B.A. in English (1984), as well as the
University of Montana
(1987?88), where he studied creative writing. He notes that he contributed to
Republican
political campaigns during this time.
[5]
He has been married since 1989 to Lisa Dowling of
Helena, Montana
. They live together in Seattle with their son.
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Bibliography
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- In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest
, 1999 (
ISBN
978-0874221756
)
- Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America
, 2004 (
ISBN
978-1403969002
)
- Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community
, 2005 (
ISBN
978-1403967923
)
[8]
[9]
- The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right
, 2009 (
ISBN
978-0981576985
)
[10]
[11]
[12]
- And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
, 2013 (
ISBN
978-1568587257
)
[14]
- Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
, 2015 (
ISBN
978-1468308655
)
- Alt-America
: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
, 2017 (
ISBN
978-1-78663-423-8
)
- Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
, 2020 (
ISBN
9781633886261
)
- The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
, 2023
ISBN
978-1-68589-037-7
)
See also
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References
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- ^
"Club Selects Winners of This Year's Journalism Awards"
. No. L. The Record. National Press Club. Archived from
the original
on June 17, 2010
. Retrieved
December 24,
2019
.
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Tavernise, Sabrina; Benner, Katie; Apuzzo, Matt; Perlroth, Nicole (August 5, 2019).
"Shootings Renew Debate Over How to Combat Domestic Terrorism"
.
The New York Times
.
- ^
NPI's David Neiwert Awards
Archived
February 8, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
, March 1, 2007
- ^
Lynskey, Dorian (February 7, 2018).
"How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
May 29,
2020
.
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a
b
c
Wilson, James (January 27, 2019).
"
'We've dug ourselves a really deep hole': David Neiwert on the rise of the far right"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
December 25,
2019
.
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Sommer, Will (August 21, 2020).
"Inside the Completely Nutso Universe of QAnon"
.
The Daily Beast
. Retrieved
December 29,
2020
.
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Phillip, Nicole (September 30, 2020).
"Help, I Think My Hairdresser Is a QAnon Believer!"
.
The Daily Beast
. Retrieved
December 29,
2020
.
- ^
"New book digs deeply into Seattle area's WWII-era racism"
.
seattlepi.com
. July 8, 2005
. Retrieved
November 1,
2017
.
- ^
Neiwert, David A. (July 8, 2005).
"Entertainment & the Arts - "Strawberry Days": Uprooting more than lives"
.
Seattle Times Newspaper
. Retrieved
November 1,
2017
.
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Ventura, Elbert.
"How Hate Groups Went Mainstream"
.
The American Prospect
.
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Eshleman, Michael O.
"Professional Media"
.
Library Journal
.
- ^
"Nonfiction review"
.
Publishers Weekly
.
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Patriquin, Martin (May 3, 2013).
"On out-of-control border patrollers"
.
Macleans.ca
. Retrieved
November 1,
2017
.
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