Pierre Omidyar commits $250m to new media venture with Glenn Greenwald
Omidyar says decision to set up news organisation fueled by ‘concern about press freedoms in the US and around the world’
In an interview with Jay Rosen, media critic and NYU professor of journalism, Omidyar said he was committing an initial $250m to the as-yet-unnamed venture. Omidyar told Rosen the decision was fuelled by his “rising concern about press freedoms in the United States and around the world”.
Omidyar said he hopes the project will promote “independent journalists with expertise, and a voice and a following” while using Silicon Valley knowhow to build an audience. “Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement,” Omidyar said. The company will be online only and all proceeds will be reinvested in journalism.
Pierre Omidyar commits $250m to new media venture with Glenn Greenwald | Media | The Guardian
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- Grok 3 Trusts The Government
- NPR Climate Experts
- Defending Democracy In Ukraine
- “Siberia might stay livable”
- Deep Thinking From The Atlantic
- Making Up Fake Numbers At CBS News
- Your Tax Dollars At Work
- “experts warn”
- End Of Snow Update
- CBS News Defines Free Speech
- “Experts Warn”
- Consensus Science With Remarkable Precision
- Is New York About To Drown?
- “Anti-science conservatives must be stopped”
- Disappearing New York
- New York To Drown Soon
- “halt steadily increasing climate extremism”
- “LARGE PART OF NORTHERN CALIF ABLAZE”
- Climate Trends In The Congo
- “100% noncarbon energy mix by 2030”
- Understanding The US Government
- Cooling Australia’s Past
- Saving The World From Fossil Fuels
- Propaganda Based Forecasting
- “He Who Must Not Be Named”
Recent Comments
- Bob G on Grok 3 Trusts The Government
- arn on Defending Democracy In Ukraine
- William on Defending Democracy In Ukraine
- gordon vigurs on “Siberia might stay livable”
- conrad ziefle on NPR Climate Experts
- conrad ziefle on NPR Climate Experts
- conrad ziefle on Defending Democracy In Ukraine
- conrad ziefle on “Siberia might stay livable”
- Timo, not that one! on “Siberia might stay livable”
- arn on Defending Democracy In Ukraine
Reblogged this on U.S. Constitutional Free Press.
Reblogged this on The Firewall.
“News is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising.” — W R Hearst
Most of the US press has lost the picture. There’s very little investigative journalism. It is not an accident that Greenwald worked for a non-US paper.
Three cheers for Pierre Omidyar. Not everyone sees making money as simply an end in itself.
Ten to one it will be incompetent too. “…invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement” means being led by polls, which are the political equivalent of climate models–because the “users” are divided and irrational in their beliefs.
Amen to that, harrydhuffman! That’s why we need the LaRouche Movement. Pierre Omidyar and Glen Greenwald should investigate what are the requirements for the survival of the human species indefinitely far into the future. Find out what it takes to make us safe from global thermonuclear war, famine, pathogens and parasites, mega-volcanoes, asteroids, comets, and the misbehavior of the sun. Visit LaRouchePAC.com