Who the hell is 'Bill Shein'?
I’m a writer and investigative journalist interested in democracy issues, corporate power, and the environment.
For many years I wrote a twice-weekly column for The Berkshire Eagle, also called Reason Gone Mad, that was a three-time winner of the National Press Club Award for Humor.
This website is the successor to my work in recent years for The Berkshire Argus and will be home to long-form investigations, assorted field notes, and creative projects that will, I hope and suspect, defy categorization.
Ways to support my work
- Subscribe to my free newsletter, The RGM Dispatch
- Paid memberships of $6, $10, or $25 per month (or $60, $100, or $250 per year)
- One-time contributions ideally made, by you and others, every hour on the hour and hopefully in truly eye-popping amounts
- Tax-deductible contributions to the RGM Investigations Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation (ANF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports in-depth reporting projects that can take months of work. Details of the RGM Fund are coming soon; in the meantime, get in touch with any questions.
(Note that paid memberships are not tax-deductible.)
Editorial independence & transparency
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