Betsy Reed

Betsy Reed is an American journalist and editor. Since January 2015, she has been editor-in-chief of The Intercept.[1]

Betsy Reed
Betsy Reed at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born1968

Reed earned a bachelor's degree in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1990. She worked for sixteen years as editor at the weekly magazine The Nation, starting as senior editor in 1998, and promoted to executive editor in 2006. She left The Nation in late 2014 in order to join The Intercept as its editor-in-chief, starting January 2015.[2][3][4]

She has also edited several books of investigative journalism, including Blackwater and Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, and the essay collection Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare.[2]

In October 2020, Reed became embroiled in a public dispute with Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of The Intercept. After the publication refused to publish an article he wrote on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden unless he removed sections critical of Biden, Greenwald resigned in protest.[5] On November 30, 2020, Laura Poitras, who, like Greenwald, co-founded The Intercept, was fired "without cause" from the publication. In an open letter dated January 14, 2021, Poitras singled out Betsy Reed and First Look Media’s CEO Michael Bloom for being responsible for her firing.[6]

References
  1. Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill (December 5, 2014). "The Intercept Welcomes Our New Editor-in-Chief, Betsy Reed". The Intercept.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. "Betsy Reed". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  3. The Editors (January 7, 2015). "Farewell, Betsy & Judy". The Nation.
  4. Williams, Maxwell (March 15, 2016). "Betsy Reed: The editor putting big business and government under the microscope". Good (36).
  5. Robertson, Katie (October 29, 2020). "Glenn Greenwald Leaves The Intercept, Claiming He Was Censored". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
  6. https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/
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