Personnel
Truthout's Board of Directors includes McMaster University Professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux.
Truthout's Board of Advisors has included Dean Baker, Robert Reich and the late Howard Zinn.
On August 27, 2009, a member of Truthout's board of directors signed a recognition statement by the organization of The Newspaper Guild/CWA, allowing employed writers for the site to unionize with the Newspaper Guild/CWA as their preferred bargaining representative. The site also held what it called the first-ever "virtual card check", whereby paid writers faxed PDFs of their individual signatures to members of the site's organizing committee (who were based in New York, Sacramento, Los Angeles and Chicago respectively) in order to verify their unionizing authorization cards and establish a bargaining unit of the writers. Writers Maya Schenwar and Matt Renner stated in their article on the event that the organization was "the first online-only news site to successfully unionize".
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