"First Look Media"--New Additions: Peter Maass, Marcy Wheeler, Ryan Gallagher

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(They've got some really good people...and they are going to focus on continuing NSA Revelations in First Launch..according to this news release)
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FIRST LOOK LAUNCHES ITS FIRST DIGITAL MAGAZINE
By Pierre Omidyar and Eric Bates February 6, 2014


First Look is still in the midst of building our team and refining our larger editorial vision and strategy. Later this year, we will launch more digital magazines, along with a flagship site. But in recent weeks, there has been a dramatic escalation in the threats against journalists reporting on the NSA story. First Look will uphold the rights of journalists everywhere to report on the sensitive and often controversial information that they learn from sources. We are launching the new site as a public service, committed to reporting on one of the most pressing issues of our time in a transparent and responsible manner.

Working together, the site's staff has already uncovered a host of new and disturbing revelations in the NSA documents. The site will be published on mobile devices, as well as online. Its launch date will be announced in the next few days on @GGreenwald and @JeremyScahill.

Many of the veteran investigative journalists who form the core of the publication's staff have already been announced. As it prepares to launch, the site has added three more journalists to its team, all of whom have an impressive track record of groundbreaking and independent reporting in the public interest.

Peter Maass, an experienced and respected investigative journalist, joins the team as a senior writer. Peter has written about war, media and national security for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. He is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Peter has reported on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is working on a book about surveillance.

Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist best known for her deep analysis of legal documents on counterterrorism programs, will serve as senior policy analyst. She will work with the staff as a consultant on an article-by-article basis while she continues her renowned blogging on national security and civil liberties at Emptywheel.net. Marcy has written for The Guardian and Salon, among other publications, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame.

Ryan Gallagher,a Scottish journalist, has broken a series of stories about controversial government surveillance technologies, shining a light on spy agencies and uncovering links between Western technology firms and governments in repressive countries. As a reporter on the team, Ryan will contribute in-depth coverage and investigative reports on issues related to national security, technology, and civil liberties. Ryan's work has appeared in leading publications around the world including Slate, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Financial Times.

MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE LINK:

https://www.firstlook.org/#/blog/LynnOberlander

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1. Here's the embedded video that doesn't come up on the blog post, but is informative.

http://vimeo.com/85162918