First look media

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First look media
legal form Non-profit organization
founding October 2013
Seat New York City , USA
Number of employees 90
Branch Media production
Website firstlook.media

First Look Media is a media group financed and founded by the entrepreneur , philanthropist and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar . The group is based on a collaboration between Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald , Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras .

Omidyar initially financed First Look Media with a budget of 250 million US dollars after rejecting the takeover of the Washington Post in late 2013 , but remaining interested in media work. The New York-based company is now funded by member donations and a for-profit media production company, Topic Studios , which produces and distributes streaming media programming . The resulting surplus is used to finance charitable spin - offs. These are the journalistic website The Intercept , founded in 2014 ; a documentary platform, Field of Vision ; and an advisory organization for persecuted journalists and whistleblowers , The Press Freedom Defense Fund . First Look publishes its annual report with financial statements.

In 2018, First Look Media received donations from 19,000 supporting members and employed 90 people. CEO is Michael Bloom, COO is Drew Wilson, and CCO is Jeannie Kedas. Co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill continue to hold senior positions at The Intercept, and Laura Poitras is Executive Producer at Field of Vision . The collaboration with Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi on a digital magazine ended after a few months in 2014 and Taibbi went back to Rolling Stone .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First Look Media Works Annual Report 2018
  2. ↑ Pierre Omidyar: My Next Adventure in Journalism ( en ) In: OmidyarGroup.com . Pierre Omidyar. October 16, 2013. Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved on February 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b About. In: FirstLook.org. First Look Media, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture (UPDATED). In: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Here's Who's Backing Glenn Greenwald's New Website. Reuters via HuffPo, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Jay Rosen : A First Look at NewCo's structure. In: Pressthink.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Detlef Borchers, Martin Holland: NSA scandal: First Look brings issue about Snowden documents . In: Heise Online . February 7, 2014. Archived from the original on February 17, 2014. Retrieved on February 7, 2014.
  8. ↑ Ravi Somaiya: Start-Up Site Hires Critic of Wall St. . February 19, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  9. ↑ Matt Taibbi moves to Omidyar's First Look Media. In: FAZ . February 21, 2014, accessed May 26, 2020 .