Betsy Reed

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Betsy Reed
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Betsy Reed at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born1968

Betsy Reed is an American journalist and editor. Since January 2015, she has been editor-in-chief of The Intercept.[1]

Reed earned a bachelor's degree in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1990. She worked for sixteen years as editor at the weekly magazine The Nation, starting as senior editor in 1998, and promoted to executive editor in 2006. She left The Nation in late 2014 in order to join The Intercept as its editor-in-chief, starting January 2015.[2][3][4]

She has also edited several books of investigative journalism, including Blackwater and Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, and the essay collection Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare.[2]

In October 2020, Reed became embroiled in a public dispute with Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept. Greenwald resigned in protest, claiming that the publication refused to publish an article he wrote on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden unless he removed sections critical of Biden.[5] Reed strongly disputed Greenwald's charge, saying it was "absolutely not true." She said that she had merely asked Greenwald to substantiate his unsupported claims that Biden was corrupt as part of the normal editing process but that Greenwald had refused.[6] Reed created a stir online when she wrote that Greenwald was not a victim but rather "a grown person throwing a tantrum."[7] The following week, Laura Poitras, who, like Greenwald, co-founded The Intercept, claimed she was fired "without cause" from First Look Media, the parent company of The Intercept, for criticizing The Intercept's handling of whistleblower Reality Winner (Poitras had exited The Intercept in 2016). In an open letter dated January 14, 2021, Poitras singled out Reed and First Look Media's CEO Michael Bloom for her firing.[8] First Look said that it had simply not renewed Poitras's employment contract because she had not been very active with the company in recent years. Reed called Poitras' claims "baseless and frankly ridiculous".[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill (December 5, 2014). "The Intercept Welcomes Our New Editor-in-Chief, Betsy Reed". The Intercept.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Betsy Reed". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  3. ^ The Editors (January 7, 2015). "Farewell, Betsy & Judy". The Nation.
  4. ^ Williams, Maxwell (March 15, 2016). "Betsy Reed: The editor putting big business and government under the microscope". Good (36).
  5. ^ Robertson, Katie (October 29, 2020). "Glenn Greenwald Leaves The Intercept, Claiming He Was Censored". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
  6. ^ Barr, Jeremy; Izadi, Elahe (29 October 2020). "Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept following dispute over Biden story". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  7. ^ "'A Grown Person Throwing a Tantrum': Intercept Responds to Glenn Greenwald 'Smear'". Mediaite. 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  8. ^ Poitras, Laura (January 14, 2021; updated 23 March 2021). "Open Letter (updated)". Praxis Films. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Jones, Sarah; Sterne, Peter (February 24, 2021). "Why Did First Look Let Go of Laura Poitras?". New York Magazine. Retrieved February 24, 2021.


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