Thursday 31 October 2013

Omidyar, Journalism, and Activism



Omidyar, Journalism, and Activism

Glenn Greenwald was a controversial but largely solo investigative reporter and columnist for the Guardian before the recent announcement that Pierre Omidyar was planning on partnering with him in launching a whole new news operation from scratch. This would be just one more nonprofit news startup, but for the fact that 1) it will not be nonprofit, and 2) it will be started with a quarter of a billion dollars in venture capital via Omidyar. His choice was, apparently, to eschew the purchase of theWashington Post in favor of starting something with none of that institution's legacy structures.

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