Jason Leopold: Off The Record -- Can We Talk?

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I want to get some things out of the way first and set the record straight about my past and my experience as a journalist before I become a regular fixture here at World News Trust.

Let me start off by saying that I'm hated by many, many mainstream and independent journalists. My exposes are routinely discredited by the public figures I write about and by the journalists I routinely scoop. I'm a lightning rod. Oh, I should also tell you that I've got a rap sheet. I'm a convicted felon. I was charged with grand larceny almost ten years ago for stealing thousands of CDs from a record company I once worked for and selling them to used record stores in Manhattan for cash to support a nasty cocaine habit. That's right, I'm a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. I've been clean and sober for almost seven years. I wrote a book about my life -- a memoir -- called Off the Record. It's about my double life exposing oily politicians and corporate crooks in my investigative news stories while hiding my own past criminal behavior from my employers and friends fearing that one day I would be discovered. Maybe you've heard about it. Perhaps you've also heard my publisher canceled it after receiving a threatening letter from the former press secretary to Governor Gray Davis who objected to the way he was portrayed in my book. I should also tell you that I'm an award-winning journalist, despite my sordid past. I was the bureau chief at Dow Jones Newswires and I worked for the Los Angeles Times and other papers.

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1. Jason is a great writer and investigative reporter - it is good his blog

has found a home

:-)