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Betty Medsger is an author and investigative reporter. Medsger is the author of several books, including The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI. [1] [2] [3] Medsger was instrumental in uncovering the work of COINTELPRO and secret activities by the FBI. [4] [5] [6] She is the former chair of the Department of Journalism and ...
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Board of judges, Columbia University’s Race Workshop awards, 2001-2006.Mentor Award, California First Amendment Coalition, 1997.Distinguished Service to Journalism Award, Northern California Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, 1995.Judge, National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association national competition, 1995.“The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.” New York: Random House, 2014.“Winds of Change: Challenges Confronting Journalism Education.” Washington, D.C.: Freedom Forum, 1996.“Framed: The New Right Attack on Chief Justice Rose Bird and the Courts.” Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1983.“Women at Work: A Photographic Documentary,” New York: Sheed and Ward, 1975.Charles Lewis interview with Betty Medsger, Oct. 27, 2014, American University, Washington, D.C.Betty Medsger is a pioneer of investigative journalism who exposed the FBI's illegal spying and COINTELPRO programs in 1971. She also wrote books on women's work, the judiciary and the media burglars who stole the FBI files.
Jan 7, 2014 · It is impossible to read Betty Medsger’s book without drifting into comparisons between then—when J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI—and now—when Gen. Keith Alexander was the director of the NSA.” —Firedoglake Book Salon “Reading [The Burglary] might make you feel . . . like taking a crowbar to the offices of the NSA ...
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Oct 6, 2014 · Betty Medsger As a Washington Post reporter in 1971, Betty Medsger wrote the first stories about the revelations in the stolen Media, Pennsylvania FBI files. In January 2014, ...
Jul 16, 2014 · In “The Burglary,” author Betty Medsger tells the story of a group of burglars in 1971 who stole files from a small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania -- a theft that provided evidence of wide ...
Betty Medsger writes a gripping story about the burglary, the burglars, and the FBI’s fervid but fruitless efforts to catch them. Her story of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI (and today’s NSA) teaches the dangers of secret power.” —Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., former Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee investigating America ...
Betty Medsger first wrote about the Media files as a reporter at The Washington Post in 1971. She is a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and founder of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University, where she was chair of the Department of Journalism. She is the author of ...
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