GLENN GREENWALD
is an American lawyer, journalist and author born on this date. He was a
columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a
columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor
to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights
litigator.
At Salon he
contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal
topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news
magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. In 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitrasand and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
Greenwald was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013" and The Advocate named him as one of the "50 Most Influential LGBT Persons in 2014".
Four of the five
books he has written have been on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Greenwald is a frequent speaker on college campuses, including Harvard
Law, Yale Law, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UCLA
School of Law and the University of Wisconsin. He frequently appears on
various radio and television programs.
In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published
the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British
global surveillance programs, based on classified documents disclosed by
Edward Snowden. The series on which Greenwald worked, along with
others, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
His reporting on
the National Security Agency (NSA) won numerous other awards around the
world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the George
Polk Award for National Security Reporting, the 2013 Online Journalism
Awards, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his
articles in O Globo on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the
first foreigner to win the award), the 2013 Libertad de Expresion
Internacional award from Argentinian magazine Perfil, and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Greenwald lives
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the hometown of his partner, David Michael
Miranda. Greenwald has said his residence in Brazil was the result of an
American law, the Defense of Marriage Act, barring federal recognition
of same-sex marriages, which prevented his partner from receiving a visa
to reside in the United States with him.
In 2023
Greenwald's husband, David Miranda, a former Brazilian congressman,
passed away at the age of 37 after a nine-month-long battle in the ICU
with a gastrointestinal infection.
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