Gary Webb - Notable Stories

Notable Stories

  • 1980 – "The Coal Connection" (with Thomas Scheffey), Kentucky Post (organized crime in the Kentucky coal industry)
  • 1983 – "I Create Life" (with Maria Riccardi), Cleveland Plain Dealer (early surrogate parenting arrangements)
  • 1985 – "Doctoring the Truth," Cleveland Plain Dealer (ongoing malpractice and collusion concerns on the Ohio Medical Board
  • 1989 – "Caltrains Ignored Elevated Freeway Safety" (with Peter Carey), San Jose Mercury News (detailed CalTrans negligence in construction of the Cypress Structure in Oakland which collapsed during the Loma Prieta Earthquake)
  • 1990 – "Good Cop, Bad Cop," San Jose Mercury News (police brutality)
  • 1996 – "Dark Alliance," San Jose Mercury News (CIA-crack cocaine-Contra connection)
  • 1999 – "Driving While Black," Esquire (racial profiling in traffic stops)
  • 2001 – "Sex and the Internet," Wired (investigation of the online sex industry)
  • 2004 – "The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On," from Into the Buzzsaw (retrospective on the media's handling of the "Dark Alliance" story)
  • 2004 – "The Killing Game," Sacramento News & Review (military's use of first-person shooter video games as recruitment tools)

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