Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Claud Cockburn was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch.

Alexander Cockburn’s Guillotined!,A Colossal Wreck and An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontentsare available from CounterPunch.

Recent articles by Alexander Cockburn

Why Rupert Murdoch came to New York

Why Rupert Murdoch came to New York

With the announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from the board of FoxNews and Newscorp, I thought was it an apt moment to reprint one of the most detailed portraits ever written of the press mogul: Alexander Cockburn’s 1976 profile and interview with Murdoch published in the Village Voice in 1976, shortly after Murdoch had acquired the New York Post. Alex’s interview with Murdoch was liberally mined by William Shawcross for his otherwise demur biography of the carnivorous tycoon.–JSC