Biographical Overview & Key Facts

Subject:

Glenn Greenwald

Role / Field:

American journalist known for civil liberties criticism and global surveillance reporting.

Born:

1967-03-06

Century / Era:

1967s Historical Era

Database Source:

2Day Chrono-Wiki & Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Origins & Early Life

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer. In 1996, Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on First Amendment litigation. He began blogging on national security issues in October 2005, when he became increasingly concerned with what he viewed as attacks on civil liberties by the George W. Bush administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

He became a vocal critic of the Iraq War and has maintained a critical position on American foreign policy. Greenwald started contributing to Salon in 2007, and to The Guardian in 2012. In June 2013, while at The Guardian, he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden. His work contributed to The Guardian's 2014 Pulitzer Prize win and he was among a group of three reporters who won the 2013 George Polk Award. In 2014, he cofounded The Intercept, of which he was an editor until he resigned in October 2020.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

Greenwald subsequently started publishing his own newsletter. Through The Intercept Brasil in June 2019, Greenwald published leaked...

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