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                             About Greg Palast

"Palast's stories bite. They're so relevant they threaten to alter history. Palast is
               exactly what a journalist is supposed to be - a truth
   hound, doggedly independent, undaunted by power." -- Chicago Tribune


Greg Palast is the author of two international and New York Times bestsellers based on
his reportage for BBC Television's premier current affairs program, Newsnight, and
his investigative reports for Britain's Guardian newspapers.

It was Palast who, for the Guardian and the BBC, first uncovered and documented the
purge of thousands of African-American voters, wrongly named felons, by the state of
Florida before the 2000 presidential election. His update of the report, for Harper's,
was nominated for an American Magazine Award.

Born in Los Angeles, Palast, an economist who studied with Milton Friedman at the
University of Chicago, worked for two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud
and as an expert on control of industry. His influential book in the field, Democracy
and Regulation (2002/3), commissioned by the United Nations, is based on his lectures
at the Cambridge University Department of Applied Economics and at the University
of Sao Paolo.

PBS television's Now profiled Palast's BBC investigation of a "voter caging" scheme
operated from the office of presidential advisor Karl Rove. Among other investigative
stories Palast broadcast on the BBC was the disclosure of confidential US State
Department pre-invasion plans for the oil fields of Iraq. His BBC documentary Bush
Family Fortunes (2003) received the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award.
BBC has featured interviews by Palast with notables such as President Hugo Chavez
of Venezuela and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

Palast is currently on assignment to Vanity Fair with law professor Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. to investigate the integrity of the 2008 voting process in America.

Palast, this year's Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow, was named
Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously bestowed on
Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. He has returned from residence in London to direct
his investigative team from an office on New York's Lower East Side.

                  Contact: Zach Roberts, Research Associate, +1.212.505.5566
                                                      zach@gregpalast.com