Editing CounterPunch (section)

==History==
''CounterPunch'' began as a newsletter, established in 1994 by the [[Washington, D.C.]]–based investigative reporter [[Ken Silverstein]].<ref>"Counterpunch is the brainchild of Ken Silverstein, a former AP reporter in Rio de Janeiro." ''[[Lies of Our Times]]'', vols 4–5 (1993), p. 26.</ref> 

Silverstein was soon joined by [[Alexander Cockburn]] (b. 1941 – d. 2012) and then [[Jeffrey St. Clair]], who became the publication's editors in 1996 when Silverstein left.<ref>Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, ''Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond'' (London and New York: Verso, 2000), p. 151; Alexander Cockburn, Ken Silverstein, ''Washington Babylon'' (London and New York: Verso, 1996), p. 302.</ref><ref>Cockburn, Alexander, and Jeffrey St. Clair, ''End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate'' (Petrolia, California, and Oakland, California: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2007), pp. 2, 44.</ref> 

In 2007, Cockburn and St. Clair wrote that in founding ''CounterPunch'' they had "wanted it to be the best muckraking newsletter in the country", and cited as inspiration such pamphleteers as [[Edward Abbey]], [[Peter Maurin]], and [[Ammon Hennacy]], as well as the socialist/populist newspaper ''[[Appeal to Reason (newspaper)|Appeal to Reason]]'' (1895–1922).<ref>Cockburn and St. Clair (2007), ''End Times'', p. 383.</ref> When Alexander Cockburn died in 2012 at the age of 71, environmental journalist [[Joshua Frank]] became managing editor and Jeffrey St. Clair became editor-in-chief of ''CounterPunch''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nichols|first= John|url=http://www.thenation.com/blog/168996/alexander-cockburn-and-radical-power-word |title=Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word |website=thenation.com|date= July 21, 2012| access-date= July 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1645/an_award-winning_year/ An Award-Winning Year, The Investigative Fund]. Retrieved July 24, 2016 {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20161130183717/http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1645/an_award%2Dwinning_year/ |date=November 30, 2016 }}</ref>