As I said from day one of class, the good news in independent media is that some
of these outlets and startups are actually doing some hiring on occasion. Right
after indy media class yesterday, news broke on BuzzFeed that blogger and Izzy Award-winner Glenn Greenwald is leaving the
Guardian (on friendly terms) in order to start “a very well-funded … very
substantial new media outlet.” The funder is reportedly eBay founder and
billionaire Pierre Omidyar.
Greenwald said in a preliminary statement: “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 most.” (My emphasis.) He was quoted in BuzzFeed as saying that it would not just be about politics: "it’s going to have sports and entertainment and features."
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