Greenwald/Scahill/Omidyar/Poitras First Look First project-- The Intercept-- Is live

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Glenn Greenwald has a Welcome introduction to the site, where he describes the short term mission: " Our short-term mission is limited but critically important: to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures provided to us by our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."

And the long term mission:

"...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. The editorial independence of our journalists will be guaranteed, and they will be encouraged to pursue their journalistic passion, areas of interest, and unique voices.

"We believe the prime value of journalism is that it imposes transparency, and thus accountability, on those who wield the greatest governmental and corporate power. Our journalists will be not only permitted, but encouraged, to pursue stories without regard to whom they might alienate."

The site's about pag e tells more about First Look Publications.

The STAFF  page includes a masthead with a stellar crew. 

Check it out. Bookmark it. 

You can follow the Intercept on twitter at @the_intercept

When I first checked, it already had about 8500 followers. 90 minutes later, at 11:05 AM, it was up to 11.1 K. 

Once you get to their twitter page, you can follow the staffers by clicking on their FOLLOWING button. Oops. No. That doesn't work. When I first clicked on it, they were only following their staffers. Now they're following several hundred people. A lot of them are worth following if you're not following them already.