James Ridgeway
American journalist (1936–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Fowler Ridgeway (November 1, 1936 – February 13, 2021) was an American investigative journalist. In a career spanning six decades, he covered many topics including automobile industry safety, American universities, far-right movements including the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazism, and campaigns against solitary confinement. He was the Washington correspondent for The Village Voice for over 30 years between the mid-1970s to mid-2000s, and had also worked for The New Republic, and Mother Jones. He had also contributed to magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist among others.
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Born | James Fowler Ridgeway (1936-11-01)November 1, 1936 Auburn, New York, U.S. |
Died | February 13, 2021(2021-02-13) (aged 84) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education | Princeton University |
Occupation | Journalist |
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Patricia Dodge (m. 1966) |
Children | 1 |