Anyone want to give me their best bio on Jason Leopold?

I like his writing style, admire his doggedness, appreciate his sources, and I like the substance of his articles.

Anyone with background for an outsider like me? Not necessarily the google stuff.

Jason Leopold spent two years covering California's electricity crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. Jason has spent the last year cultivating sources close to the CIA leak investigation, and is a regular contributor to t r u t h o u t. He is the author of the new book NEWS JUNKIE. Visit www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview.

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Jason Leopold is the author of the forthcoming memoir News Junkie, due out in April 2006 on Process Media books. Leopold spent two years covering California’s electricity crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. He has written more than 2,000 news stories on the issue and was the first journalist to report that energy companies were engaged in manipulative practices in California’s newly deregulated electricity market. Mr. Leopold has also reported extensively on Enron. He was the first journalist to interview former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling following Enron’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001.

Mr. Leopold has broken numerous stories on the financial machinations Enron engaged in and his investigative pieces on the company have been published in The Nation, Salon.com, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, CBS Marketwatch, Entrepreneur, Utne Reader and numerous other national and international publications. Mr. Leopold was also a regular contributor to CNBC and National Public Radio and has also been the keynote speaker at more than two-dozen energy industry conferences around the country. Mr. Leopold has been writing about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as Alternet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, ZNet, Z magazine, The Raw Story, and Truthout.
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ason Leopold is the author of the forthcoming memoir News Junkie, due out in April 2006 on Process Media books. Leopold spent two years covering California’s electricity crisis as Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. He has written more than 2,000 news stories on the issue and was the first journalist to report that energy companies were engaged in manipulative practices in California’s newly deregulated electricity market. Mr. Leopold has also reported extensively on Enron. He was the first journalist to interview former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling following Enron’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001.

Mr. Leopold has broken numerous stories on the financial machinations

Salon and the NYT about the Secretary of the Army's ties to Enron and the veracity of his reporting.

http://gnn.tv/articles/709/Media_Meltdown_The_Jason_Leopold_Saga

As far as I know, though, he's usually pretty reliable.

I'm not saying anything about its credibility but this is part of his story that is out there...
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Shafted?

On October 9, GNN ran an article by a young reporter desperate to save his career. My Story – Shafted By The New York Times was the saga of 33-year-old freelance writer and former Wall Street Journal reporter Jason Leopold. According to Leopold’s emotional account, his reputation was deliberately sabotaged by Salon.com and The New York Times after Salon published what he called “the story of my career,” a hard-hitting investigation into current Army Secretary Thomas White. In the August 29 article, Leopold alleges White, while a top executive at Enron, instructed an underling to conceal Enron’s negative cash flow from investors. Leopold even had the smoking gun email to prove it.

The story was explosive. And in September, The New York Times’ financial columnist Paul Krugman cited Leopold’s reporting in one of his influential editorials, referring to White as a “corporate evildoer.” What followed is a bewildering tale of journalistic betrayal, prompted in part by Leopold’s own admitted indiscretions. Both Salon and the Times turned their back on the reporter, accusing him of one of journalism’s most deadly sins, and withdrawing their support for the validity of his most crucial piece of evidence – the “smoking gun email.” Leopold was left high and dry, his rep cooked, his future in mainstream media seemingly toast.

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http://gnn.tv/articles/709/Media_Meltdown_The_Jason_Leopold_Saga

moving on . . .

...investigative journalists who have been either ruined or "suicided" by the NeoCons over the years. That includes a reporter that was on the trail of Richard Mellon Scaife.

http://www.newsmedianews.com/archives/jason_leopold_bac.htm

more: http://www.newsmedianews.com/jason_leopold.php#links

He's a very good reporter that got screwed BIG TIME by the Bush machine. I truly hope this story is his redemption and he can regain his foothold in the mainstream press. I am behind you Jason!

The bulk of his work is exemplary