Lannan Foundation

Max Blumenthal, Writer - Marfa, Spring 2008

Max Blumenthal is a Nation Institute writing fellow and a research fellow for Media Matters for America. His work appears regularly in The Nation, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, Salon, and Alternet. Dozens of nationally broadcast television and radio programs have sought his insights including CNN’s Weekend Edition, MSNBC’s Countdown, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, and PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal. Blumenthal’s investigative reporting on the serial femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico won the Online Journalism Association/USC Annenberg’s Best Independent Feature award in 2003. His investigative video reports have been seen by millions of online viewers and rebroadcast by networks from the United States to Russia.