Ken Silverstein is an American journalist who worked for the Los Angeles Times as an investigative reporter, for The Associated Press in Brazil, and has written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon and Harper's Magazine.
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Ken Silverstein drew attention in 2007 for a report in which he went undercover as part of an investment group with business interests in Turkmenistan, raising questions about journalistic ethics.
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Ken Silverstein said that he could not have exposed the willingness of the companies to work with a Stalinist dictatorship using conventional journalism methods.
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In September 2010, Ken Silverstein left his position as Washington editor and blogger at Harper's Magazine and remained a contributing editor.
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Ken Silverstein is a self-described "vole" in the newspaper business, and an opponent of what he considers "false 'balance'" in the news media.
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Ken Silverstein previously wrote a regular column for Harper's Magazine, called Washington Babylon.
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In December 2013, Ken Silverstein was hired as senior investigative reporter by First Look Media.
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In November 2014, Ken Silverstein began writing for First Look's The Intercept.
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In February 2015, Ken Silverstein announced his resignation from The Intercept in a series of Facebook posts calling his former employers a "pathetic joke".
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Ken Silverstein launched the website Washington Babylon in 2016, for which he is editor-in-chief.