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23 Feb 2015, 1:21 pm by Benjamin Wittes
You might not notice it in the elegant zoomed-out photo of Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras (top left). [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 10:08 am
We’re excited to announce that Canarywatch has added its 50th canary: First Look Media, the parent company for The Intercept—the news site created by journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 2:42 pm by Nadia Kayyali
Laura Poitras, documentary filmmaker and staff at The Intercept, has been stopped at the border nearly 40 times. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 3:49 pm by Mark Jaycox and Nadia Kayyali
After all, digital security was essential to the making of Laura Poitras's Academy award winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. [read post]
2 Jun 2018, 7:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
After much persistence and after roping in another journalist, Laura Poitras, eventually Snowden did get through—the rest is history. [read post]
10 Nov 2013, 11:15 am by Cyrus Farivar
The lead author of the story in the German magazine is Laura Poitras, one of the journalists known to have access to the entire trove of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 3:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
One of the first programs people might turn to is Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, a version of which was thrust further into the public consciousness when it was explicitly credited in Citizen Four, Laura Poitras’ documentary on the National Security Agency and her meeting with Snowden. [read post]
22 Aug 2013, 10:54 am by Cyrus Farivar
On Sunday, the Brazilian national was acting as a courier from Berlin, where he was visiting Greenwald’s colleague, Laura Poitras. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 10:05 am by Cyrus Farivar
The British newspaper’s revelation comes once again from the documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to American journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 6:35 am by rainey Reitman
Greenwald’s new book (buy a copy here and a portion of the proceeds go to EFF) details how he and journalist Laura Poitras met NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and then published a series of articles that would change Americans’ perception of their government, ignite a worldwide debate around surveillance, and challenge notions about investigative journalism. [read post]
14 May 2014, 1:59 pm by Joe Silver
After this trip, Greenwald and filmmaker/investigative journalist Laura Poitras facilitated the publication of a series of disclosures related to a treasure trove of secret government documents leaked by Snowden, exposing the massive extent of covert US surveillance. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 12:10 pm by Dan Goodin
Greenwald then brought the same request to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 2:10 pm by Nathan Mattise
The paper reports Miranda was returning from a trip to Berlin with US filmmaker Laura Poitras when officers stopped him at 8:30am. [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 1:35 pm by Megan Geuss
"[T]he decision to revise the limits concerning Americans was made in secret, without review by the nation’s intelligence court or any public debate,” wrote NYT reporters James Risen and Laura Poitras. [read post]
22 Dec 2014, 3:06 pm by Parker Higgins
–Dave Maass "CITIZENFOUR" directed by Laura Poitras Laura Poitras’ riveting new documentary about mass surveillance gives an intimate look into the motivations that guided Edward Snowden, who sacrificed his career and risked his freedom to expose mass surveillance by the NSA. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 8:13 am by admin
By Kevin Garnett Laura Poitras’ recent documentary, The Oath, tells a tale of two men believed to have been members of al-Qaeda. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 4:09 pm by William Theaker
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras recently urged people to support free software, emphasizing that the work she's done revealing bulk surveillance wouldn't be possible without it. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 1:30 pm
The journalism produced from Snowden’s disclosures has been awarded almost every prize imaginable, including the Pulitzer Prize for the reporters at the Washington Post and the Guardian, and an Academy Award for Laura Poitras’ documentary “Citizenfour. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Glyn Moody
(credit: Gage Skidmore) A "Snowden Treaty" designed to counter mass surveillance and protect whistleblowers around the world has been proposed by Edward Snowden, and three of the people most closely associated with his leaks: the documentary film-maker Laura Poitras; David Miranda, who was detained at Heathrow airport, and is the Brazilian coordinator of the campaign to give asylum to Snowden in Brazil; and his partner, the journalist Glenn Greenwald. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 7:50 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Copies are now in the hands of three groups: First Look Media, set up by journalist Glenn Greenwald and American documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, the two original recipients of the documents; The Guardian newspaper, which also received copies before the British government pressured it into transferring physical custody (but not ownership) to The New York Times; and Barton Gellman, a writer for The Washington Post. [read post]