# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeremy-scahill
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:22:27.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeremy-scahill"
name: "Jeremy Scahill"
slug: "jeremy-scahill"
description: "Jeremy Scahill is an American activist, author, and investigative journalist. He 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 (2007), which won the George Polk Book Award. His book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (2013) 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. In July 2024, he left The Intercept and, together with Ryan Grim and Nausicaa Renner, founded Drop Site News."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeremyscahilllecture.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1974-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 46
platforms:
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    handle:    "jeremyscahill"
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    handle:    "nm1568139"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jeremyscahill.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Jeremy Scahill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump