The Guardian hires Chelsea Manning.

[elleng]

Chelsea Manning is joining The Guardian U.S. as a contributing opinion writer, the site's editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, announced on Tuesday.

Manning, previously known as Bradley Manning, was an Army private who was convicted in 2013 and is serving a 35-year term for leaking national security materials to WikiLeaks. She will write "occasionally from Fort Leavenworth prison on the subjects of war, gender, and freedom of information" for the British newspaper's American site, Viner wrote in a staff memo. Manning will not be paid.

Manning wrote an essay for The Guardian in December about being a transgender woman. Manning began transitioning to a woman while in custody last year.

Viner also announced on Tuesday that The Daily Beast's Ben Jacobs and The Huffington Post's Sabrina Siddiqui are joining the site as political reporters.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/the-guardian-hires-chelsea-manning-202383.html

Short story. That's all.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Wonderful! Congratulations Chelsea!

[yeoman6987]

5. No paid? I know she is incarserated but aren't we

Fighting wage theft? A little money socked away for when she gets out would help a great deal I would think.

[hack89]

6. You can't profit from your crimes, especially when you are in custody.

a basic tenet of American law.

[cui bono]

8. *if anyone cares about you committing a crime that is.

We have plenty of criminals profiting out in the open on Wall Street and in major corporations.

[lpbk2713]

14. It would be an exercise in futility.

The govt would seize any compensation. They would find a
way of justifying it as payment for one thing or another.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Sabrina Siddiqui is maybe the biggest catch for The Guardian, the one big trustworthy liberal newspaper left.

Great political writer.

"Sabrina Siddiqui is a politics reporter at the Huffington Post. Prior to that, she worked with the White House team at Bloomberg News and served as the editor in chief of South Asian news network Divanee.com. She also reported on higher education, personal finance and venture capital for BusinessWeek."




http://www.theguardian.com/uk

[Jefferson23]

3. Good. n/t

[Warpy]

4. I'm glad she's making a life for herself, even if it's in prison.

All she did was embarrass bureaucrats by exposing what their war really meant in terms of misery and death. I would hope for an Obama pardon, but fear it won't be forthcoming.

[Scuba]

7. +1

[Blue_Tires]

9. Evidently the Guardian is doing really well

if they have this kind of $$$ to throw around...

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. I'm sure the fearless American media will soon follow suit.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Maybe a show on MSNBC's Prison Porn series

so we can see the "real" life behind those particular bars.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

13. Maybe The Guardian

is putting Chelsea's salary "in escrow" for her.