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pnwmom

(108,980 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:23 PM Feb 2019

Guess how much libertarian Pierre Omidyar pays Glenn Greenwald for his work on the Intercept?

About half a million dollars a year.

In case you're wondering, the reporters and editors at the NYTimes and WAPost aren't doing nearly as well.

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Idrees Ahmad
?Verified account@im_PULSE

Is it true that @GGreenwald earns roughly the same salary as Andrew Marr? Does this mean the standard salary at @theintercept is $500,000 per annum? Of is the pay gap at the Intercept as extreme and gendered as at the BBC?

Charles Я. Davis
Verified account@charliearchy

Replying to @im_PULSE @ggreenwald @theintercept
According to First Look's 2016 IRS filing, Greenwald (Enzuli Management) made 3X what Laura Poitras did.

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Guess how much libertarian Pierre Omidyar pays Glenn Greenwald for his work on the Intercept? (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2019 OP

Wow $500 thousand. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #1

$500k for running the 6000th-most-popular site on the Internet? jmowreader Feb 2019 #2

Strictly for money Glenn? - for shame lame54 Feb 2019 #3

That's nothing new; he's been raking it in Blue_Tires Feb 2019 #4

He also founded Civil Beat here on Honolulu mahina Feb 2019 #5

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)

1. Wow $500 thousand.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 05:36 PM

Feb 2019

That’s all he (his management company) gets a year for being the founding editor of a successful business? He should go in to the speechifying business and earn that in a half hour.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)

2. $500k for running the 6000th-most-popular site on the Internet?

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:32 PM

Feb 2019

The man who is funding Greenwald, Pierre Omidyar, is an "instant billionaire" - he created eBay, and when it went public the value of the stock he held pushed his net worth into triple-comma territory. It appears to me that Omidyar is running this as the "tax loss" part of his wealth-accumulation strategy.

lame54

(35,293 posts)

3. Strictly for money Glenn? - for shame

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:35 PM

Feb 2019

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. That's nothing new; he's been raking it in

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:38 PM

Feb 2019

ever since Snowden fell in his lap...

You will note that since becoming a multimillionaire, Ol' Glenn doesn't play the "who signs your paychecks?!?" smear game anymore when he's butting heads with legit journalists

mahina

(17,664 posts)

5. He also founded Civil Beat here on Honolulu

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 07:08 PM

Feb 2019

It doesn’t pay like that.

https://www.civilbeat.org

If definitely fills a journalistic need here.

He also funds the Ulupono foundation and was the major backer of Hokule’a’s around the world trip.

Still dont like what he did on Kaua’i.

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