Co-founding editor of The Intercept. Former columnist for The Guardian and contributing writer for Salon.
Trained as a constitutional litigator. As mentioned in a 2013 article in Rolling Stone, Greenwald worked for a corporate law firm in the 1990s, a job that he called "soul-sucking".
Lives in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, the hometown of his partner David Miranda.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for public service with colleagues from The Guardian and the Washington Post for their revelations of NSA surveillance based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.