Nov 25, 2014: TPM: Following Taibbi's Departure, eBay Founder Shutters Planned Site
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who launched First Look last year, announced Taibbi's decision to leave the organization in a blog post.
Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who launched First Look last year, announced Taibbi's decision to leave the organization in a blog post.
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July 30, 2014: Pando Daily: Keith Alexander and Pierre Omidyar have both realized that security sells
…Pierre Omidyar — the founder of First Look Media. Late last year, Omidyar hired journalist Glenn Greenwald, and with him a trove of secrets stolen from General Alexander’s NSA by whistleblower-turned-Moscovite Edward Snowden. As Rolling Stone reported, Omidyar “came to Greenwald specifically because of the Snowden leaks.” Mar 11, 2014: New York Observer: John Cook Leaves Gawker for Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept
Gawker editor in chief John Cook is going to the Pierre Omidyar-backed First Look Media, where he will become editor in chief of The Intercept. Feb 10, 2014: The Rancid Honeytrap: Omidyar’s First Look Introduces The Intercept
The Intercept, the first of First Look’s many intended specialty magazines debuted today. It mostly sucks, but not in such an interesting way that one need belabor the details. However, since this is the debut issue, I’m going to pass along a few quick thoughts, on my way to encouraging people to start ignoring First Look and all media like it completely 
ON THE RECORD: Feb 10, 2014: Tim McCarthy (The Guardian) announces that "Glenn Greenwald's new website launches with fresh NSA revelations." He says "A new website featuring journalist Glenn Greenwald and funded by the billionaire founder of eBay was unveiled early Monday, with two stories about US government surveillance." The Intercept is part of a suite of planned sites to be published by First Look media, founded by eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar. Its editors are Greenwald and fellow journalists Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill. The site reported Monday that the National Security Agency has used cell phone geolocation to help pinpoint targets for US drone strikes overseas, and published previously unseen photographs of major US intelligence facilities." The Intercept will focus on reporting based on documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the site’s editors said in an introductory statement. “Our focus in this very initial stage will be overwhelmingly on the NSA story,” the statement said.
CNN: Greenwald's 'Intercept' to go beyond NSA Democracy Now: Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept Poynter: Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept debuts with NSA stories The Wire: Meet 'The Intercept': Glenn Greenwald's News Site Has Arrived The Wrap: Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept Launches with More Edward Snowden Leaks (Video) |
ON THE RECORD: Jan 21, 2014: Jonathan Cohn has announced in his New Republic article that "Policy Journalism Is Having Its Moment." The article is primarily dedicated to the the decision by Ezra Klein to quit the Washington Post in order to start a new journalism project. Melissa Bell and Dylan Matthews
will also be leaving WaPo with him. Cohn sees something bigger in this
move and summarizes that "the unsettling part of Klein’s departure is
the shift in power, away from large media organizations, it would seem
to reinforce. All but the largest newspapers are dying and we don’t
know, yet, exactly what will take their places. But, overall,
journalism is richer and more informative because people like Josh Marshall, Nate Silver, and now Ezra Klein are reinventing it." Andrew Beaujon (Poynter) listed several people who have left the established media and are looking at new ventures ("Washington Post announces Ezra Klein is leaving"): "Nate Silver decided last year to leave The New York Times for ESPN, which plans to relaunch his FiveThirtyEight.com under its auspices soon. Glenn Greenwald left the Guardian last year to join a “a new mass media organization” funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Dan Froomkin and Jay Rosen also joined the new organization in varying capacities. Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman will be the editor-in-chief of a starting shareup called Whisper. Gabriel Snyder, formerly the editor-in-chief of The Wire, will be chief content officer of a mobile news startup called Inside.com. Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg’s site AllThingsD announced last year they would part ways with Dow Jones & Co. and relaunched as Re/Code this year. The Wall Street Journal launched a replacement site, WSJD. Both promised live events. Another spinoff from the Journal: The Information, a subscription tech-news site edited by former WSJ reporter Jessica Lessin. Proto-blogger Andrew Sullivan left The Daily Beast in early 2013 to relaunch his Daily Dish as an independent, subscription-based publication. Sullivan wrote on Dec. 31that in its first year, the publication had raised more than $800,000 in subscription revenue and has “almost 34,000 subscribers.” One thing that is clear through all this is that the internet is not done changing the face of journalism.
Oct 29, 2013: Washington Post: Omidyar venture adds Froomkin, Segura
News from the much-anticipated media venture to be bankrolled by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and piloted by Glenn Greenwald: Dan Froomkin and Liliana Segura are joining a crew that consists of Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.
News from the much-anticipated media venture to be bankrolled by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and piloted by Glenn Greenwald: Dan Froomkin and Liliana Segura are joining a crew that consists of Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras.
