Glenn Greenwald Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Glenn Greenwald, Joins Tom Needham on THE SOUNDS OF FILM.

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer, journalist, author and media personality. An exclusive first excerpt of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, appears in the April 19/26 edition of The Nation magazine—out now.

For his 2013 NSA reporting, working with his source Edward Snowden, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was also awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

A film about the work Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras did with Snowden to report the NSA archive, “CitizenFour,” directed by Poitras, was awarded the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

The Sounds of Film is the nation’s longest running film, music and ideas themed radio show. For the past 30 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut, and streaming live worldwide on the internet. Past people interviewed for the show include Katrina vanden Heuvel, Astra Taylor, Chris Hedges, Mr. Fish, Brett Weinstein, Alan Dershowitz, Jordan Peterson, Laurie Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Chuck D, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barbara Kopple, DA Pennebaker, and William H. Macy.

Worldwide listeners can tune into SOUNDS OF FILM internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.