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Lara Bitar is founding editor of The Public Source, an independent and investigative journalism platform in Beirut. She contributes reports on social movements and civil unrest to grassroots media projects in the US and Lebanon, and writes for regional and feminist publications. Committed to labor struggles and radicalizing the local press, Bitar is organizer of a Beirut-based collective for independent media workers. Her former professional engagements include producing the Peabody Award-winning Middle East news show Mosaic News at Link TV in San Francisco, and leading editorial teams at the digital freedoms organization SMEX and the online publication Al-Akhbar English.