Kevin Gosztola — the courtroom books

BORN IN MISHAWAKA, 10 MARCH 1988 · THE CAREER IS THE WORLD'S COURTROOMS'

The tie. Kevin Gosztola was born in Mishawaka on 10 March 1988 and is, in his standard biography's plain form, from Mishawaka; Columbia College Chicago formed him, and the beat that made his name — the whistleblower and national-security cases — is Chicago's and the world's. People carries the career; this entry is the two books', at bibliography size, and his present standing is printed at the close, as the public record gives it.

The books. With Greg Mitchell he co-authored Truth and Consequences: The US vs. Bradley Manning (Sinclair Books, 2012), the first book-length account of the Manning case, updated in a new edition up to the start of the trial in June 2013; Gosztola was one of the few journalists to report the court-martial entire, and the book is that coverage made permanent. His second book stands alone: Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange (The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press), released 28 February 2023 with a foreword by Abby Martin — a documented guide to the government's case against the WikiLeaks publisher and its press-freedom stakes, built on a decade of covering Assange and on dozens of witnesses' testimony; Publishers Weekly reviewed it as "a stout defense" and "a searing polemic," and its author brought it to the stage in conversation with Daniel Ellsberg in March 2023. He is cofounder and managing editor of Shadowproof and curator of its Dissenter newsletter — a Mishawaka-born journalist whose two books stand on the national shelf of the Manning and Assange record.

Sources:

1. Seven Stories Press and The Censored Press, via Penguin Random House and Publishers Weekly — Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange (released 28 February 2023; ISBN 9781644212721; foreword by Abby Martin) and the review of 13 February 2023.
2. Sinclair Books, via Google Books — Truth and Consequences: The US vs. Bradley Manning (2012; ISBN 9780615621975), with Greg Mitchell, its updated edition carried to the trial's start.
3. People (this record) — the birth, the "from Mishawaka" biography line, the court-martial coverage and the Shadowproof course.