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Josh Friedman
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Reporter, CalCoastNews
Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Sofiya
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Globetrotting journalist from Los Angeles and formerly based in Bulgaria. Covering geopolitics, as well as reporting on San Luis Obispo County, CA news for CalCoastNews. Also providing an array of digital media services, including writing, ghostwriting, editing and video production. Recruited by three-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist George Ramos to join CalCoastNews as a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo journalism student. Learned investigative reporting as an intern under the tutelage of CalCoastNews co-founder Karen Velie. Spent a year creating and publishing news site, FreeSLO, for which reported from locations ranging from San Luis Obispo to Athens, Greece. Returned to CalCoastNews in late 2012 and co-authored award-winning investigative series on mistreatment of the homeless in San Luis Obispo County. Moved to Sofia, Bulgaria in 2014. Began traveling to several dozen countries with a focus on the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Launched the news website FreeManPost. Provided extensive coverage of the 2015-2016 European Migrant Crisis, particularly on the Josh Friedman YouTube channel. Served as an editor and foreign correspondent for the geopolitical news and analysis publication Bulgaria Analytica. Founded the Nomadic Journalism Academy for aspiring globetrotting journalists. Joined We Are Change in 2019 with a new focus on the business side of media. Currently focused on developing and marketing products and services to enable We Are Change to flourish in an era of Big Tech censorship and demonetization. Reported extensively on the Black Lives Matter protests and related demonstrations taking place in the United States in 2020. Also covered the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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CalCoastNews
San Luis Obispo County’s on-line independent news source producing in-depth investigative news in the public interest.
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Founded: 2008