Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian newspaper. Greenwald is the reporter who has been releasing formerly unknown information thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. He wasn’t ready to announce this news, but the info leaked. Greenwald said: quote,
“My partnership with The Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved. The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline. 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.”
A philanthropist has put up the money for the new venture, and Greenwald said he looked forward to creating a new organization with quote, “no pre-existing institutional strictures on what you can do.”
h/t http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/exclusive-glenn-greenwald-will-leave-guardian-to-create-new