Ben Norton

Ben Norton
Journalist Ben Norton
Born	Benjamin D. Norton
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Website	www.bennorton.com

Benjamin "Ben" Norton is an American journalist, writer, and musician. Norton's work focuses primarily on United States foreign policy, the Middle East, and US politics.

Norton is currently a reporter at AlterNet.

Norton was previously a political staff writer at Salon, where he reported extensively on the 2016 US presidential campaign, the emails of former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. support for the 2015 war in Yemen.

He writes for The Grayzone Project, a journalistic initiative founded and edited by journalist Max Blumenthal. Norton and Blumenthal have co-written several articles. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton also jointly host the political podcast Moderate Rebels.

At The Intercept, where he has contributed, Ben Norton published a report with journalist Glenn Greenwald criticizing PropOrNot, a group of anonymous people with no publicly disclosed credentials who compiled a blacklist of news outlets which purportedly spread Russian propaganda.

Norton is a regular contributor to the media watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

Benjamin Norton has appeared as an analyst and commentator on numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera English,Al Jazeera Arabic,Democracy Now,The Real News,Chris Hedges' program On Contact, and Lee Camp's show Redacted Tonight. His articles have also appeared in Mondoweiss,Al-Araby Al-Jadeed,Truthout,Middle East Monitor,The Real News, and more. He blogs at his personal website, BenNorton.com.