Glenn Greenwald on secrets, transparency and digital future
Prize-winning journalist appeared at Canadian Journalism Foundation event
Journalist and lawyer Glenn Greenwald spoke Tuesday with Globe and Mail editor in chief David Walmsley about his work and journalism's place in a changing digital world.
Greenwald, who recently helped launch a new online publication called The Intercept, has worked closely with Edward Snowden to publish secret U.S. National Security Agency documents.
The work has drawn the ire of some and praise from others, but Greenwald has continued to publish and talk about the challenges journalists and their sources face as they try to hold governments to account.
Greenwald has previously worked with CBC News as a freelance journalist, where he helped to cover revelations about how U.S. agencies spied during the G20 in Toronto with Canada's knowledge. Greenwald reported and wrote stories and helped to provide context on the documents. Walmsley, currently the editor in chief of the Globe and Mail, was director of news content at CBC at the time.