Welcome to the NEWS JUNKIE POST or “NJP,” a news site for relevant articles and videos on US and world affairs, politics, the environment, entertainment and more. At the NJP we don’t aggregate or use wire services, instead you will find original articles written by our correspondents. You’ll also find unapologetic opinion pieces from a wide range of points of view.

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Our Co-Founders & Editors-in-Chiefs

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Dolores M. Bernal is a radio and print journalist as well as online columnist. She has reported from Washington, DC for various radio outlets and she was a staff writer for the Las Cruces Sun-News in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She’s also written for MSNBC’s Newsvine.com as well as other Internet news publications.

Her journalist work has included: “Election Night” coverage from RNC headquarters in 2004 and 2008; on the ground coverage from New Orleans and Houston for Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and Hurricane Gustav.

Dolores traveled to Haiti on January 25, 2010 to report on the aftermath of the devastating quake in that country. She maintains Eye On Haiti, a new NJP blog to give continued coverage on the relief and rebuilding efforts there.

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Gilbert Mercier is a French filmmaker and photojournalist based in the US since 1983. He works in the film business as a writer/producer/concept writer/art director. He is a member of the National Press Photographers Association & of the Art Directors Guild of America.

Mercier’s photographic work spans over more than 30 years. His comprehensive photo essay about New-Orleans post Katrina is one of the largest photo study on the topic. Journalist Ron Steinman wrote an article about Gilbert Mercier’s coverage of Katrina’s aftermath in The Digital Filmmaker. His Katrina’s graffiti photographs were also featured in the acclaimed documentary “Bomb It”, directed by Jon Reiss.

In the early 1980’s Mercier was the host & producer of the radio show “Performance” for a French radio station. He has blogged for about two years on his own blog: Mercy Politics.

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Our Editors

Ole Ole Olson is NJP’s Senior News Editor and Chief New Media Strategist. Olson worked on the first campaign for US Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) before beginning a career in archaeology. In the years since, Ole has lived all across the United States, and traveled extensively around the world, visiting 4 continents. He began blogging and photography in 2004, and also writes for Progressive Nation and for EyesonObama.com. Ole is the founder of #ProgressiveTuesday on Twitter, and writes about US news, politics, social media, and world news.

You can usually find him on the social media websites of Digg.com and Twitter.com.

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Leigh Ann Caldwell is NJP’s Political Editor. She is Washington D.C. Editor and Correspondent for Pacifica Radio’s daily syndicated news program Free Speech Radio News. She currently covers Congress and the Obama administration but has covered anything inside a white marbled building in the nation’s capital. Her political reporting has taken her across the country for the 2008 presidential elections where she also hosted her own daily syndicated election show.

Before she had time to unpack her boxes in her new city, Washington D.C., she was rushed to New Orleans to cover Hurricane Katrina. Previously, she was a freelance radio and print journalist living in New York City where she reported for an array of outlets from Radio France International to Pilates Style magazine.

Her coverage of the rebuilding of September 11th won an investigative journalism award from the Independent Press Association. She also launched Radio Rootz DC, a new program with People’s Production House, which teaches underserved DC public school youth media, radio and journalism.

Leign Ann covers politics for the NEWS JUNKIE POST.

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Amy Beth Arkawy is NJP’s Entertainment Editor. She is a freelance writer, playwright, novelist and radio talk show host. Her opinions can be found on myriad Internet outlets including:

whowillwinthe2012election.com; aggressivelyliberal.com; ElitesTV.com; and thetotam.com.

She has hosted radio shows on a slew of stations and networks including: ARN newtork, WGCH/ CT; WXPS/NY; PopNet and WSTC/WNLK/CT.

She is currently working on a syndication deal and can be reached at her blog: radiograffitionline.com

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Stephen Dufrechou is NJP’s Opinion & Analysis Editor. He is a college professor who teaches composition and literature in Memphis, TN. His nonfiction and poetry has previously been published in literary journals. Currently, he is writing a nonfiction work, about his family’s experiences in the Cuban Revolution and the subsequent U.S.-led counterrevolution. His critical focus aims at hegemonic structures and dominant ideologies in Western society.

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Liam Fox is one of NJP’s Contributing Editors a secular humanist active in the social justice activist, and a climate justice proponent. He is a social service worker, community organizer as well as musician and public speaker. Liam can be found in most places the web connects and also writes for IrreverenceCafe and his home site.

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Our Contributors

For nearly nine years, Douglas Rivlin served as the Senior Director of Communications of the National Immigration Forum, one of the nation’s preeminent pro-immigrant advocacy organizations and one of the leading groups in the national Reform Immigration FOR America campaign. At the Forum until October 2009, Rivlin was responsible for helping reporters and the public understand the immigration issue and what is at stake in the comprehensive immigration reform debate. Prior to joining the Forum, Rivlin served as a Senior Adviser to the Director of the Voice of America and was the Washington Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career in advocacy and communications at the Children’s Defense Fund and the Advocacy Institute. Douglas earned an MA in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Steve Elliott is a journalist based in Seattle, Washington.

Since 1960, he has worked for newspapers in Alabama and Mississippi before moving to the west coast in 1999. While living in the Los Angeles area, Elliott edited two trade magazines, Business Fleet and F&I Management and Technology, until 2004.

Steve Elliott has written extensively for the S.F. Weekly, Eyes On Obama, and OpEd News. He now edits the Village Voice Media cannabis site, Toke of the Town.

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James Lovette-Black is a post-doctoral scholar and activist with professional experience spanning over three decades in health care. Growing up gay in the deep south, he moved to Chicago in the early 70s and vibrant San Francisco has been his home since 1986. One of the original founders of ACT UP San Francisco and the Lavender Greens, his activism includes anti-apartheid work, anti-nuclear work, and environmental activism. James was in the non-violent civil disobedience blockade of the US Supreme Court after the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and has worked for pro-choice issues, as well as diligently working to dispel ageist biases and for single-payer, universal health care for all Americans. He has practiced the “religion of kindness” for nearly 30 years, as expressed through the Celtic Reconstructionist Tradition of Wicca. His worldview is optimistic and he considers himself a proud American and a planetary citizen.

An early adopter, he has had a web presence since 1994, and is an avid Apple “fan boy”, as well as a critical observer of the human-technology experience. James writes for Jimboland Jots and Bright Wellness.

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Wes Rackley spent thirty plus years working in Arkansas’ air-conditioning and energy management industries as a blue collar worker, corporate officer, and small business owner. Over the intervening years he narrowed his focus from the general economy and despising the GOP to just specifically strengthening labor, through Universal Health Care, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), and Campaign Finance Reform.

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Mike Kaulbars is an environmental activist and writer on the science behind global climate change. He trained as a research biologist (entomology, systematics, ecology) and now directs a small NGO active on environmental and social justice issues. Climate Change was one of the big reasons he left research to get involved in public education and activism. He also teaches political action. He is the main author of Greenfyre’s, a rich resource with excellent documentation.

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