Media Roots Interview with Filmmaker, Journalist Josh Wolf

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🗓️ 16 August 2011

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Media Roots Interview with Filmmaker, Journalist Josh Wolf by Abby & Robbie Martin

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The So, yeah, let's get started.
0:48.8	Why don't you give our listeners a quick introduction to who you are before we get started?
0:59.0	Sure. My name is Josh Wolfe. I recently graduated from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with an emphasis in documentary film. And I'm a freelance journalist who both write, does video,
1:05.0	takes photos, and does a little radio or anything else, I can finish that you do to cover my rent.
1:13.5	Yeah, the world of investigative journalism doesn't pay too well these days if you want to be, you know, if you want to have integrity.
1:22.8	So let's talk a little bit.
1:24.3	Because I don't like attacking the corporate sponsors.
1:27.8	Yeah.
1:28.4	I don't get it.
1:29.2	Yeah.
1:30.0	Exactly.
1:31.2	Exactly.
1:32.4	Josh, let's go back to 2005.
1:34.5	I know you've told this story probably hundreds of times, but I think it's a really
1:37.9	important one to get out there, especially in the age, you know, cracking down on whistleblowers
1:42.5	and the chilling effect on journalists today.
1:45.4	Let's talk a little bit about what happened to you, just from the beginning.
1:51.0	Sure. So I kind of started out in journalism by selling protests, and one day I filmed the protest against the G8 summit, I think it was July 8, 2005. And the G.H.
2:03.0	Summit at the time, which is when the eight largest countries gathered together to plan
2:08.2	economic policy, that was going on in Glen Eagle, Scotland. But there was a solidarity mark
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