First Look Media

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First Look Media
Non Profit
Industry Mass Media
Founded 2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Founders Pierre Omidyar
Glenn Greenwald
Headquarters New York City, United States
Products investigative Journalism, New media
Parent First Look
Subsidiaries The Intercept, Reported.ly
Website First Look Media

First Look Media is a news organization founded by Pierre Omidyar that was first announced in October 2013 as a venue for "original, independent journalism." The organization is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable entity.[1][2]

The project is a collaboration with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras with a promised $250 million in funding from Omidyar.[3][4][2] The organization has announced plans to support multiple publications, the first of which is The Intercept, which launched in February 2014. On March 10, 2014, the company announced the addition of Gawker editor John Cook as editor-in-chief of The Intercept[5] as well as Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Andrew Jerrell Jones as writers for the site.[6] In June 2014, it was announced that Morgan Marquis-Boire was joining First Look Media as the Director of Security.[7]

A second publication was announced in February 2014 that would focus on financial and political corruption, headed by Matt Taibbi. Although the name of the publication has not been publicly announced, the name Racket has been reportedly chosen.[8] The publication was to be launched autumn 2014[9][10] but in October, it was reported that Taibbi was on leave after “disagreements with higher-ups”.[11] On October 28, Omidyar stated in a press release that Taibbi had left First Look.[12]

In December of 2014, First Look Media announced the launch of Reported.ly, a social media news service led by Andy Carvin.[13]

In February 2015, senior investigative reporter Ken Silverstein, who'd been hired in December 2013, announced his resignation. Writing in Politico, Silverstein described First Look as "a slowly unfolding disaster, not because of editorial meddling from the top, but because of what I came to believe was epic managerial incompetence. … For all of the bean counting and expense account-approving that Omidyar's organizational structure imposed on us, they were shockingly disinterested in the actual journalism. … Top management was so aloof that it was hard to figure out who was in charge."[14]

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  11. ↑ Somaiya, Ravi, "Matt Taibbi Is on Leave Only Months After Joining First Look Media", The New York Times, October 28, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
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  14. ↑ Silverstein, Ken, "Where Journalism Goes to Die: Glenn Greenwald, Pierre Omidyar, Adnan Syed and my battles with First Look Media", Politico, February 27, 2015. Retrieved 2015-2-27.

External links

  • First Look Media
  • FirstLook.org
  • My Next Adventure in Journalism, Pierre Omidyar. 16. Oktober 2013. Archiviert vom Original am 9. Februar 2014. Abgerufen am 10. Februar 2014. Quote: "As many of you know, I’ve had an interest in journalism for some time now. I’ve been working on Civil Beat for three years and through my philanthropic work at Omidyar Network and Democracy Fund, we’ve supported many efforts around the world related to media, citizen engagement, and government transparency and accountability."

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