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Glenn Greenwald

Disciplines:
journalism
law

Summary

American journalist and former constitutional lawyer who reported Edward Snowden's NSA surveillance revelations and has become a prominent critic of both the Democratic establishment and mainstream media.

Core Contribution

NSA surveillance revelations (with Snowden, 2013): documented PRISM and other mass surveillance programs — one of the most consequential journalism scoops in modern history. The Intercept: investigative outlet he co-founded. Broke with the left and mainstream media over perceived bias.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Left Brazil for good in 2020 after Brazilian authorities tried to charge him with cybercrime for reporting on government corruption — a democratic government attempted to prosecute the journalist who exposed its own crimes.

Notable Works & Achievements

How Would a Patriot Act?

With Liberty and Justice for Some

No Place to Hide

Historical Influences

I.F. Stone

Intellectual Lineage

Constitutional Law Investigative Journalism

Contemporaries & Peers

Matt Taibbi Jeremy Scahill

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Surveillance Journalism

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