First Look Snags Matt Taibbi

First Look Media, the news organization created by Pierre Omidyar, today announced that acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author Matt Taibbi will launch First Look’s second digital magazine. Taibbi will help assemble a top-notch team of journalists and bring his trademark combination of reporting, analysis, humor and outrage to the ongoing financial crisis – and to the political machinery that makes it possible. The magazine will launch later this year. Taibbi comes to First Look from Rolling Stone.

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First Look is the organization that just launched The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, and others.  This second publication, headed up by Matt Taibbi, will focus on financial and political corruption.  Should have plenty of material.

Whether busting Goldman Sachs for market manipulation or revealing the hidden roots of the student loan crisis, Taibbi has exposed and explained the most complicated financial scandals of the day.

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The name and launch date of his digital magazine will be announced in the coming months.

Taibbi's farewell to Rolling Stone.