Truthout is an American non-profit progressive news organization which describes itself as "dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues".

[citation needed] Truthout's senior leadership team is composed of Executive Director Ziggy West Jeffery and Editor-in-Chief Negin Owliaei.

[18] On July 14, 2010, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing in the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials.

[22] Coastal conservationists were alarmed, and environmental groups sprang into action, generating protests and broad public discussion[23] about offshore fracking.

At one point, lawsuits filed by environmental groups forced federal officials to place a moratorium[24] on offshore fracking in the channel while regulators reviewed the practice and their rules for making it safe.

[25] In 2016, Dahr Jamail and Truthout released[26] Navy documents outlining plans for combat training exercises along vast non-military areas of Washington state coastline.

[28] Freelancer and Truthout writer Aaron Miguel Cantú was one of the six journalists faced with felony rioting charges after covering the inauguration of Donald Trump.

We want to have this vibrant ecosystem of different publications that are helping enrich people’s understanding of the world, and propel them toward action on all these different fronts.”[33] Through the center, Truthout also collaborates on editorial projects with other progressive news organizations, including Zealous, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Deceleration.

[34] In 2022, the Crossroads Fund presented The Donald F. Erickson Synapses Award to Truthout, for independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.

In 2012, Truthout journalist Gareth Porter was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism[47] for his work uncovering the Obama administration's military strategy in Afghanistan.

"In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away the facades of the Obama administration and disclosed a military strategy that amounts to a war against civilians."

Amongst Porter's award-winning stories were 'How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate "Killing Machine,[48]"' and 'The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan.

[3] Truthout's Board of Directors includes Maya Schenwar, McMaster University professor and educational theorist Henry A. Giroux and Lewis R.