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Peter W. Klein

@peterwklein.bsky.social

Journalist | https://muckrack.com/disclaimify

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Nieman Reports@niemanreports.org · 2mo ago

⏱️ 60 Minutes Veterans Come to the Program’s Defense "The drama unfolding at CBS News is what happens when the "move fast and break things" ethos collides with a century-old institution that was central to inventing the genre of broadcast journalism." niemanreports.org/60-minutes-v...

‘60 Minutes’ Veterans Come to the Program’s Defense - Nieman Reports

A former producer for the show mounts a public plea urging CBS to resist corporate threats to editorial independence.

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Do we need a Silent Spring for the AI era? Underneath the AI noise, I keep thinking about Bikini Atoll, DDT, ozone layer. We keep releasing powerful things into complex systems and assuming we can contain the consequences. We've been here before. ☢️🌿🤖 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b79cb1a...

Are we approaching the ‘Silent Spring’ of artificial intelligence?

There is a rapidly accumulating body of evidence about the risks AI can pose if given too much autonomy

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Canada's largest paper, @thestar.com, asked me to weigh in on the @60minutes.bsky.social Bari Weiss saga. For me, it comes down to a flawed media landscape where the firewall between editorial and corporate have crumbled. bit.ly/Star-60

I’m a former ‘60 Minutes’ producer. Here’s why this scandal raises concerns about corporate meddling in media

The largely indelible firewall between news and corporate has crumbled at CBS News, and we’re seeing cracks at other major news organizations.

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@bribeincdoc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Documentary about one of the biggest bribery scandals in modern history is premiering on @joltfilm.bsky.social. On this International Anti-Corruption Day, watch BRIBE, INC. and raise global awareness about corruption's harmful effects. #InternationalAntiCorruptionDay www.jolt.film/watch/bribeinc

Bribe, Inc. | Watch on Jolt.Film

BRIBE, INC. is a true story exposing the shady underpinnings that fuel global commerce: corruption and lots of money. In the shadows of the global oil industry the Ahsani family ran Unaoil with jet-se...

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Global Reporting Centre@globalreportingcentre.org · 12mo ago

A clip from GRC founder @peterwklein.bsky.social's Bribe Inc. documentary was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where @trace-inc.bsky.social president @alexandrawrage.bsky.social presented an anti-corruption argument on @cnbc.com against bribing foreign governments.

TRACE@trace-inc.bsky.social · last yr.

TRACE President @alexandrawrage.bsky.social was featured on "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" in a segment on corporate corruption. John shared a clip from Bribe, Inc. where CNBC asked Alexandra to give the anti-corruption argument for the law banning bribing foreign governments. bit.ly/450qbhR

Global Reporting Centre@globalreportingcentre.org · 9mo ago

What happens when critical infrastructure is carved up and sold off to investors? A new investigation looks at how these firms are capturing our rail networks and prioritizing profits — often at the expense of safety @cnsmd.bsky.social cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/29/p...

PRIVATE TRACKS: How Wall Street is Reshaping the Railroad Industry

Investment firms are quietly taking greater control over America's railroad industry, accumulating large stock positions in railroad operators and buying up companies that lease and manage rail cars o...

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I grew up listening to my dad playing recordings of Hungary's greatest comedian, Géza Hofi. I got to thinking recently about Hofi's dangerous antics during the height of the Cold War, and wrote this piece about the risks to American comedy today. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Authoritarian regimes need their court jesters

There’s a long history of political satire in authoritarian regimes. In Communist Hungary, it came courtesy of Géza Hofi

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · last yr.

@globalreportingcentre.org continues reporting on how sports, politics and human rights are interconnected. Check out this bonus episode that just posted!

Global Reporting Centre@globalreportingcentre.org · last yr.

NEW: State of Play is back with bonus episodes! We look at Los Angeles where protests, immigration raids, and tensions with the Trump administration have the city on edge. Is LA ready for the FIFA Men's World Cup next year? Find out: globalreportingcentre.org/state-of-pla...

Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · last yr.

I keep hearing that the detentions like those of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk are unprecedented. As I wrote in @nytimes, these kinds of investigations and detentions were common after 9/11, as well as previously in US history. www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/o...

Opinion | My Father’s Red Scare (Published 2007)

My father was never a spy, never a member of the Communist Party. Nonetheless, the F.B.I. kept a file on him from the day he arrived in the United States.

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · last yr.

Worth circling back to my @nbcnews.com fact-check on Vivek Ramaswamy's spurious claim during primary debate that Canada is a major source of fentanyl. We debunked it then, but Trump has continued to propagate fiction that the deadly drug comes across northern border. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Fact-checking the third Republican primary debate

As five Republican candidates traded barbs onstage, NBC News fact-checked what they said in real time.

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Peter W. Klein@peterwklein.bsky.social · 2y ago

How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption? Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption?

Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests.

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