What is Glenn Greenwald known for?

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper and cofounding The Intercept, of which he was an editor until his resignation in October 2020. Following his resignation from The Intercept, he started self-publishing on Substack.

Born on March 6, 1967 to parents Arlene and Daniel Greenwald, Glenn attended Nova Middle School and Nova High School in Davie, Florida. He was born in New York City but was raised in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.

Greenwald practiced law in the litigation department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 1994 to 1995.

In 1996, he co-founded his own litigation firm, Greenwald Christoph & Holland (later renamed Greenwald Christoph PC), where he litigated cases concerning issues of U.S. constitutional law and civil rights.

Greenwald began blogging on national security issues in October 2005, when he was becoming increasingly concerned with what he viewed as attacks on civil liberties by the George W. Bush Administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

He has also contributed to The Salon and The Guardian.

In June 2013, while at The Guardian, he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden.

His work contributed to The Guardian’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize win. He also won the 2013 George Polk Award.