14 DAY TRIAL // Glenn Greenwald, the man behind the NSA reports, has decided to leave The Guardian for a brand new media outlet.
Greenwald has been publishing stories about the National Security Agency based on documents received from Edward Snowden. He’s done so in The Guardian, but also in publications in India and Brazil, BuzzFeed reports.
He is now departing from the London-based publication for a new venture on which he can’t share too much, but which he calls a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” that already has major financial backing.
“My partnership with The Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved. The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline,” Greenwald states.
Not only is Greenwald leaving The Guardian, but he’s also taking the NSA reporting with him. He has already admitted to not sharing all the documents with The Guardian and that only he and Laura Poitras have access to the full set of documents from Snowden.
Greenwald is set to have an active role at the new organization. “My role, aside from reporting and writing for it, is to create the entire journalism unit from the ground up by recruiting the journalists and editors who share the same journalistic ethos and shaping the whole thing – but especially the political journalism part – in the image of the journalism I respect more,” he said.
The brand new news organization is set to have main hubs in New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco, but some of the staff will join him in Rio de Janeiro, where Greenwald lives.
“When people hear what it is, there is almost no journalist who would say no to it,” he boasts.