Glenn  Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald


Glenn Greenwald is an American lawyer and journalist best known for his role in releasing classified information made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden. His series in The Guardian won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Greenwald has won numerous other awards including the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting, the Gannett Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism, and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award. In 2013, Foreign Policy magazine named him ‘one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013.’ He is one of three founding editors of The Intercept and has authored four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law. His most recent book, 'No Place to Hide,' recounts his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents.