First Look Media — the company from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar — has won an Oscar. Kind of. Citzenfour, a film based largely on the Edward Snowden reporting from The Intercept (the news site under First Look), won the Oscar.
The film’s director and Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras accepted the award for Best Documentary Feature. Joining Poitras on stage was another Intercept co-founder, Glenn Greenwald.
Since it launched, First Look and The Intercept have been mostly known for attracting — and subsequently repelling — talented people like John Cook, Matt Taibbi and more recently, Ken Silverstein.
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