Islands and other places: Over the sea to Skye
The Skye Bridge/ By HaSt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php This article is adapted from a piece that originally app…
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Judge in #MeToo defamation case denies request for early summary judgment motion. The fight goes on.
On January 5, my attorneys in the Kurin v. Balter defamation case sent a letter to the judge (Vincent Briccetti of the Southern District of New Yor…
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Attorneys for #MeToo reporter, citing New York's new anti-SLAPP law, ask federal judge to consider motion for summary judgment
(International Commission of Jurists) Last June, Danielle Kurin, an archaeologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sued me for defamat…
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The year a socialist almost became governor of California. Upton Sinclair's campaign changed the political face of the state
Upton Sinclair/National Portrait Gallery The following is adapted from a piece I wrote for the July 15, 1984 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News Ma…
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National Association of Science Writers rejects subpoena demands from archaeologist suing one of its members for defamation [Update Dec 22: Kurin's attorneys have withdrawn the subpoena]
As readers of this blog know, I am the defendant in a defamation suit filed against me by Danielle Kurin , an archaeologist at the University of Ca…
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More abusers at the University of Queensland?
James E. M. Watson Over the past couple of years, my reporting into abuse by academics, especially scientists, has taken me "down under" a …
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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