Drop Site News
| Formation | July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim |
Drop Site News is a nonprofit, investigative news outlet founded by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill in July 2024 that is based in Washington, D.C.[1][2]
History
In July 2024, Drop Site News was founded by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill,[3][4][5][6][1] with Nausicaa Renner as a founding editor.[2] All three formerly worked at The Intercept,[2] which had seen significant staff turmoil and departures in the preceding months.[7][8] The board of The Intercept previously rejected an offer from Grim and Scahill to take over the company.[8] The New York Times described the establishment of Drop Site News—comparing it to Taylor Lorenz's User Mag, Oliver Darcy's Status, and 404 Media founded by former staff of Vice Motherboard—as an instance in "a series of journalists leaving legacy media institutions in recent years to strike out on their own."[1] The Intercept provided startup funding for Drop Site News.[7][9]
On July 8, 2024, a sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms that hosts videos and photographs, Instagram, took down several interviews about the war in Gaza that were posted by Democracy Now!. The takedown notice by Instagram stated that the interviews that were removed included "symbols, praise, or support of people and organizations we define as dangerous".[9] An interview by Amy Goodman of Scahill was among those interviews that were taken down by Instagram. The subject of her interview of Scahill was his interviews of Hamas officials for Drop Site News.
Grim described it as focusing broadly on "power and greed."[10] He has expressed his belief in the importance of alternative media in "debunking disinformation that often goes unchallenged by corporate journalism," citing his observation that "many Israeli propaganda narratives fell apart under pressure from alternative media" such as the claims of 40 beheaded babies or systemic rape.[11]
Journalists
Drop Site's journalists include Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, Nausicaa Renner, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Murtaza Hussain, and others.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robertson, Katie; Mullin, Benjamin (2024-10-01). "Taylor Lorenz, Chronicler of Digital Culture, Will Start Own Newsletter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bose, Meghnad. "The Adversarial Ethos". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ↑ "Drop Site News: Jeremy Scahill on Launching Investigative News Outlet with Ryan Grim". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ↑ "Scahill and Grim Launch New Media Outlet With The Intercept's Support". The Intercept. 2024-07-08. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ↑ "Ryan Grim dishes on why he's leaving The Intercept". The Hill. 2024-07-09.
- ↑ Tucker, Pete (2024-07-10). "[Ryan] Grim News". CounterPunch.org. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Allsop, Jon. "Britain's government has changed. Will its relationship with the press?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
Yesterday was a busy one for media-jobs news. Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim announced that they are leaving The Intercept and founding a new investigative outlet called Drop Site News; The Intercept said that it is providing 'startup funding' and will continue to host the pair's podcasts.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tani, Max (2024-06-02). "Money woes, staff issues strain the Intercept". Semafor. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Tani, Max (2024-07-09). "Instagram removes Gaza posts from lefty news org Democracy Now". Semafor.
- ↑ "The Adversarial Ethos".
- ↑ "Alternative Media and Debunking Israeli Lies". WRMEA. 2024-10-19. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
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