Mark Ames — Meet Pierre Omidyar! A handy primer for new First Look hires

Mark Ames investigates Pierre Omidyar and the investigative reporters he hired. Ouch. Serious smackdown.

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Meet Pierre Omidyar! A handy primer for new First Look hires
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John Byrne — Matt Taibbi quits Rolling Stone, joins Glenn Greenwald

First Look, the news company created by former PayPal employee Pierre Omidyar, announced Wednesday that they had added irreverent journalist Matt Taibbi to their stable of prominent reporters.

Taibbi will lead a second newsmagazine for First Look. The First, Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept, launched earlier this month....

First Look’s release adds:

"While at Rolling Stone, Taibbi won a National Magazine Award for his reporting on the 2008 presidential election, and was a finalist for his coverage of Occupy Wall Street. The author of two New York Times bestsellers, he earlier worked as reporter for the Moscow Times, an English-language expatriate newspaper, and co-founded The eXile, a bi-weekly newspaper based in Moscow. The paper became infamous for its satirical wit, as well as for hard-nosed reporting of corruption in both the Russian government and the American aid community. The paper was the only publication to correctly predict the 1998 Russian financial crisis…

"Taibbi will be based in New York City. The name and launch date of his digital magazine will be announced in the coming months. First Look Media’s first online publication, The Intercept, led by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, launched on February 10."

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Matt Taibbi quits Rolling Stone, joins Glenn Greenwald
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It's on. Hunter Thompson must be pleased, wherever he is. Paul Krassner too.

Is Greg Palast next?