Glenn Greenwald

I see Glenn Greenwald as a lone wolf of journalism, and I mean that as praise and warning both. A First Amendment lawyer turned national-security blogger, he became the conduit for the Snowden disclosures, a feat that reshaped how the world thinks about surveillance and earned him a wall of international prizes. What compels me is his refusal to flatter power, even when it means alienating onetime allies. He is divisive, deliberately so, and reasonable people argue about his later turns. But the core instinct, dig, verify, publish, and let the chips fall, is the genuine article, and that purity is increasingly rare.

Name (English)

Glenn Greenwald

Name (Japanese)

グレン・グリーンウォルド

Reading

ぐれん・ぐりーんうぉるど

Born

March 6, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

lawyer / journalist / writer / pundit / blogger

High school

Nova High School

University

George Washington University

Awards & achievements

• 2013 EFF Award
• 2014 George Polk Award
• 2014 Carl von Ossietzky Medal
• 2009 Izzy Award
• 2014 I. F. Stone Hall of Fame
• 2014 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
• 2013 Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien
• Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award

• Official sitehttp://glenngreenwald.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/glenn.11.greenwald/
• Xhttps://x.com/ggreenwald
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20Greenwald
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5568842

Tags

• New York
• lawyer
• journalist
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.