Jeremy Scahill Biography
Jeremy Scahill is a writer and investigative journalist from the United States. He is the founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept and the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award.
How old is Jeremy Scahill? – Age
He is 48 years old as of 18 October 2022. He was born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jeremy Scahill Family – Education
Scahill was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb, by his “social activist” parents, nurses Lisa and Michael Scahill. In 1992, he graduated from Wauwatosa East High School. Jeremy attended a few regional campuses of the University of Wisconsin and a local technical college before deciding that his “time would be better spent by entering the struggle for justice in this country.” Scahill spent several years on the East Coast working in homeless shelters after dropping out of college.
Jeremy Scahill Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jeremy Scahill Blackwater
Scahill’s first book, The New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, was released in paperback in 2008, thoroughly revised and updated to include the Nisour Square massacre. The film Blackwater depicts the rise of the contentious military contracting firm Blackwater, now known as Academi.
Scahill’s reporting on the presence of Blackwater contractors in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina prompted a Congressional inquiry as well as an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation.
Jeremy Scahill Intercepted – podcast
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and hosts the Intercepted podcast. The people behind The Intercept’s fearless reporting and incisive commentary debate today’s most pressing issues: national security, civil liberties, foreign policy, and criminal justice.
Jeremy Scahill Democracy Now!
Scahill joined Democracy Now! as a senior producer and correspondent and is still a regular contributor. Scahill and his Democracy Now! colleague Amy Goodman shared the 1998 George Polk Award for their radio documentary “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship,” which looked into the Chevron Corporation’s role in the deaths of two Nigerian environmental activists.
Scahill traveled to Iraq for Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio in 1998, reporting on the effects of economic sanctions and “No-Fly Zone” bombings in Northern and Southern Iraq. Jeremy Scahill was described as a “progressive journalist” in an article on AlterNet. Scahill collaborated with reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in October 2013 to launch an online investigative journalism publishing venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar’s “concern about press freedoms in the United States and around the world” inspired the creation of the new media outlet. The Intercept, a First Look Media publication, went live on February 10, 2014. The digital magazine’s short-term goal is to publish reports on information contained in documents disclosed by Edward Snowden about the NSA.
Their “longer-term mission is to provide aggressive and independent adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues, from secrecy, criminal and civil justice abuses, and civil liberties violations to media conduct, societal inequality, and all forms of financial and political corruption,” according to editors Greenwald, Poitras, and Scahill.
Scahill refused to attend a Stop the War Conference in London on November 30, 2013, unless Syrian nun Mother Agnes was removed from the program. Mother Agnes eventually drew back. Scahill canceled his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher in February 2017 after learning that Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear on the same day. Scahill blasted the US government for charging Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with espionage under the 1917 Espionage Act for his role in the 2010 publication of a trove of Iraq War documents and diplomatic cables. Scahill posted on Twitter: “This is about retaliation for the publication of evidence of US war crimes and other crimes by the world’s most powerful nation. It endangers press freedom.”
Daniel Everette Hale, an intelligence analyst, was arrested on May 9, 2019, for leaking classified information to a reporter. The reporter to whom Hale leaked was not explicitly named, but they met at a book signing, and reporters concluded that Hale leaked to Scahill. Scahill frequently reported from Baghdad for Democracy Now! and other media outlets between 2001 and 2003. Scahill appeared frequently on Democracy Now! during the Iraq invasion, often co-hosting with Amy Goodman.