Jay Rosen Gets More Details About Glenn Greenwald Venture
For Glenn Greenwald’s quickly revealed billionaire backer Pierre Omidyar, it started in Honolulu and continued in Washington D.C.
In a telephone conversation with NYU prof and journalism seer Jay Rosen, Omidyar explained how his experiences with the website Honolulu Civil Beat led to a failed attempt to buy WaPo and a successful attempt to commit to the next (other) big thing:
Omidyar said that his involvement in Civil Beat whetted his appetite to do something larger in news.
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