Intercepted

Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill

This is not your parents liberal journalism.

The Intercept_ was founded in 2014 by First Look Media. A non-profit company funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and “…built on the belief that freedom of expression and of the press, and fiercely independent perspectives, are vital to a healthy democracy and a vibrant culture”.

Its current editors are Betsy Reed, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill. While The Intercept_ initially published the documents released by Edward Snowden it has gone on to publish stories involving the U.S. military’s assassination program and how the Navy SEAL Team Six had committed potential war crimes, including mutilating corpses and attempted beheadings.

So, The Intercept_ hits a lot harder than NPR. In fact, they describe themselves as “adversarial journalism”.

In keeping with the adversarial motif, they launched their first podcast, Intercepted, on January 25, 2017 titled “The Clock Strikes Thirteen and Donald Trump is President”.

The podcast is hosted by The Intercept_ editor and award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Scahill’s path to journalism is nontraditional by today’s standards. Dropping out of college, he became heavily involved with the Catholic Worker movement. During this time he began to study…