SpyTalk
Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff, Peter Eisner, Jonathan Broder, Yossi Melman, Tomás Dinges, Bob DroginIntelligence for Thinking People
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Founding editor SpyTalk.co. Longtime natsec reporter. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, founding editor CQ/Homeland Security, dep foreign news editor UPI. Tips welcome via Signal 202-812-3034, or [email protected] and Twitter @talk_spy and @spytalker.
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author who has reported for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News. He is now a contributing editor to SpyTalk.
Peter Eisner a, contributing editor to SpyTalk, is an award-winning reporter and author, formerly at The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Associated Press.
A veteran reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, Broder writes about defense and foreign policy from Washington.
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer who specialised in security and intelligence affairs. He is co-author of Spies Against Armageddon.
Tomás Dinges covered the military and breaking news while at The Star-Ledger newspaper, and has published for a range of publications in the US and Chile. He was a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.
I covered national security and intelligence for the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times for over a decade.
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