1. Jeremy Scahill was born on 1974 and is an American activist, author, and investigative journalist.
22 Facts About Jeremy Scahill
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Jeremy Scahill is a founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award.
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Jeremy Scahill's book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield was adapted into a documentary film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Jeremy Scahill was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, by "social activist" parents, Lisa and Michael Jeremy Scahill, both nurses.
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Jeremy Scahill graduated from Wauwatosa East High School in 1992.
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Jeremy Scahill's father grew up on the South Side of Chicago, son of Irish immigrants in a very Catholic family.
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Jeremy Scahill said she lived as though the truth were true.
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Jeremy Scahill worked in 2000 as a producer for Michael Moore's TV series The Awful Truth on Bravo.
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In October 2013 Jeremy Scahill joined with reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to establish an on-line investigative journalism publishing venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar.
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On November 30,2013, Jeremy Scahill refused to participate in a Stop the War Conference in London unless Syrian nun Mother Agnes was dropped from the symposium.
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In February 2017, Jeremy Scahill canceled his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher after finding out that Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear on the same day.
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Jeremy Scahill criticized the US government's decision to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917 for his role in the 2010 publication of a trove of Iraq War documents and diplomatic cables.
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In July 2024, Jeremy Scahill left The Intercept, along with Ryan Grim, to co-found Drop Site News.
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In 2019 Jeremy Scahill apologized to the victims' family members in the name of the US government, calling the bombing a war crime.
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Jeremy Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia, post-Katrina Louisiana, and elsewhere across the globe.
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Jeremy Scahill has been a vocal critic of private military contractors, particularly Blackwater Worldwide, which is the subject of his book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
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In 2010, Jeremy Scahill testified before the US House Judiciary Committee on the United States' shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere:.
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Jeremy Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater contractors in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation.
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Jeremy Scahill's book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield was published by Nation Books on April 23,2013.
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Jeremy Scahill has been an advocate for imprisoned Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye.
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On October 19,2024, in a guest appearance on MSNBC with anchor Ayman Mohyeldin, Jeremy Scahill accused that MSNBC had people on their network who promoted Israeli propaganda.
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Jeremy Scahill was among the few Western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power and his story on the emptying of that prison won a 2003 Golden Reel Award from The National Federation of Community Broadcasters.