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Troy Media
February 18, 2018
Gavin MacFadyen Last week saw yet another school shooting in the United States. It has led to the now predictable and oft-repeated reactions on all sides. The public and politicians alike offer prayers, condolences and, frankly, precious little else in the way of concrete plans of action. Highlighted are theÃâà...
Troy Media
January 31, 2018
Gavin MacFadyen Donald Trump's first state of the union address sent a clear message that the president is not prepared to compromise on his fundamental and core beliefs. His long-stated mantra has been to “put America first” and to “make America great” again. If anyone thought he was going toÃâà...
Newsweek
May 17, 2017
Citing that source, Fox News said that “an FBI forensic report of Rich's computer—generated within 96 hours after Rich's murder—showed that he made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen,” whom The New York Times described in an obituary as a mentor to WikiLeaks founder Julian AssangeÃâà...
Heavy.com
May 16, 2017
Fox News reported the alleged and unproven Gavin MacFadyen link through an anonymous source. Rich was shot to death on a Washington D.C. city street in 2016 in a murder that remains unsolved. MacFadyen died of lung cancer on October 22. MacFadyen was perceived as being a journalist who'sÃâà...
MuckRock
April 24, 2017
In response to the initial FOIA request for files on deceased WikiLeaks Director and Courage Foundation trustee Gavin MacFadyen, the FBI cited a litany of exemptions. These included an ongoing investigation, national security, and the need to protect the identity of a confidential informant. While theÃâà...
The Times
December 29, 2016
In an interview a few months before he died, the investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen summed up what motivated him. There is, he said, a “culture of immunity that exists among all major politicians; they'd have to be guilty of visible mass murder to be prosecuted.” This culture, he said, wasÃâà...
The Guardian
November 6, 2016
The investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen, who has died aged 76, was founder-director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. He set up the CIJ, which is funded through charitable foundations, in 2003 to address what he saw as a worsening media climate for serious, in-depth and criticalÃâà...
New York Times
October 27, 2016
Gavin MacFadyen, an American investigative journalist who became an early mentor and defender of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, died on Saturday in London, where he lived and spent much of his professional life. He was 76. The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Susan Benn, said. Since theÃâà...
snopes.com
October 24, 2016
The common clickbait technique of inserting the word “found” before “dead” in announcing a notable person's death deliberately left many readers with the impression that Gavin MacFadyen had been killed over his work with WikiLeaks. But the earliest news reports and expressions of grief from colleaguesÃâà...
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