Awards & Recognition
★2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (for NSA reporting)
★2013 George Polk Award for National Security Reporting
★2013 Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism
★Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award
★Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting (Brazilian equivalent of Pulitzer)
★I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism
★2014 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (German literary award)
★McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage (University of Georgia)
★Vladimir Herzog Institute Special Prize (2019)
Notable Facts
→Co-founder of The Intercept, funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar with $250 million
→Constitutional lawyer turned journalist who broke the Edward Snowden NSA surveillance story
→Author of multiple New York Times bestselling books including 'No Place to Hide'
→Lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2005 with husband David Miranda (deceased 2023)
→Left The Intercept in 2020 over editorial disagreements, now publishes on Substack
→Hosts 'System Update' show on Rumble with hundreds of thousands of subscribers
→Speaking fees range from $50,000-$100,000 for live events
→Has over 2.4 million Twitter followers and 325,000+ Substack subscribers
→Founded animal shelter in Brazil and adopted two children