Journalist involved in Edward Snowden leaks to be awarded UGA journalism honor
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist most-associated with coverage of U.S. government surveillance records leaked by Edward Snowden, will receive the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the University of Georgia.
Greenwald was the first journalist to report that the National Security Agency was collecting phone records from millions of Verizon’s U.S. customers. He is founder of First Look Media’s “The Intercept,” and a former columnist for The Guardian.
Greenwald was nominated for the award by Dorothy Parvaz, an editor at Al Jazeera English and last year’s recipient of the McGill Medal. He will receive the award during a ceremony next fall.
The McGill Medal is named for Ralph McGill, the late editor and publisher of the Atlanta
Constitution.
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