Convinced that the future of journalism was online, Zuade Kaufman co-founded Truthdig LLC and its website 15 years ago and has been Publisher and CEO ever since. She wanted to bring the best values of print journalism to the web and to create a voice for progressive politics, social justice, humanitarian issues, women’s rights, the environment, and arts and culture.

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Convinced that the future of journalism was online, Zuade Kaufman co-founded Truthdig
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2. Convinced that the future of journalism was online, Zuade Kaufman co-founded Truthdig LLC and its
website 15 years ago and has been Publisher and CEO ever since. She wanted to bring the best values of
print journalism to the web and to create a voice for progressive politics, social justice, humanitarian issues,
women’s rights, the environment, and arts and culture.
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This week, Truthdig launched an initiative to showcase international female journalists. Global Voices
will allow the selected journalists to regularly report on breaking news and issues from their country,
filling both the gender gap and the kinds of international news missing from some mainstream news
sites.
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by repressive, often brutal regimes. They endure threats
and attacks. Sometimes they sacrifice their lives for their
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3. Kaufman has worked tirelessly to shape the website into a media outlet that is free to dig deeper … to ask
questions that are unasked … to bring attention to the stories that remain invisible.
Over the years, she has focused on innovative ways to shine a spotlight on issues that often went
unnoticed. The many initiatives included Global Voices: Truthdig Women Reporting, which recruits women
journalists throughout the world to report on important stories in their home countries, as well as the
Countering Violence Against Women project that calls attention to the horrendous impacts of the
mistreatment of women and girls. Kaufman also produced multi-media coverage of front-line activism so
vital to a vibrant democracy.
Drawing upon her journalistic expertise and passion for progressive views, Kaufman actively ran the
company and its website and helped establish and nurture Truthdig’s vision as a source of serious and
intellectually rigorous journalism.
Since the outset, in addition to her duties as Publisher and CEO, Kaufman shared oversight of the website’s
content and editorial decision-making. She also had a major role in identifying and recruiting many of its
leading contributors.
The high quality of its work has been repeatedly recognized by its peers. Those honors include six Webby
awards, three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and 31 first-place awards from the Los
Angeles Press Club.
Kaufman’s love of journalism and the media began as a child, inspired by her father who was a prolific
consumer of news. At age 16, she started her career at Los Angeles PBS station KCET and remained
affiliated with its news and current affairs department for more than five years. Later, she worked at the
Los Angeles Times, first as a researcher and then as a staff reporter.
Kaufman earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Film Theory and Criticism from the University of California at
Santa Cruz and her Master’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She also
completed post-graduate publishing studies at Stanford and Yale.
Kaufman is a former Board member of the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and was on the Los Angeles
Advisory Group for the International Women’s Media Foundation.
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