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''Drop Site News'' is a nonprofit investigative news outlet founded by
Ryan Grim Ryan W. Grim (born March 23, 1978) is an American author and journalist. Grim was Washington, D.C., bureau chief for ''HuffPost'' and formerly the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for '' The Intercept''. In July 2024, Grim and ''The Intercept''s co ...
and
Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill (born 1974) 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' ...
in July 2024. It is based in
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, United States.


History

In July 2024,
Ryan Grim Ryan W. Grim (born March 23, 1978) is an American author and journalist. Grim was Washington, D.C., bureau chief for ''HuffPost'' and formerly the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for '' The Intercept''. In July 2024, Grim and ''The Intercept''s co ...
and
Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill (born 1974) 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' ...
founded ''Drop Site News'', with Nausicaa Renner as a founding editor. All three formerly worked at ''
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'', which had seen significant staff turmoil and departures in the preceding months. The board of ''The Intercept'' rejected an offer from Grim and Scahill to take over the company. ''
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'' described the establishment of ''Drop Site News''—comparing it to Taylor Lorenz's ''User Mag'',
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's ''Status'', and ''
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'' founded by former staff of ''Vice Motherboard''—as an instance of "a series of journalists leaving legacy media institutions in recent years to strike out on their own". ''The Intercept'' provided
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for ''Drop Site News''. Grim described ''Drop Site News'' as focusing broadly on "power and greed". He has expressed a belief in the importance of
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in "debunking disinformation that often goes unchallenged by corporate journalism", citing his observation that "many Israeli propaganda narratives fell apart under pressure from
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", such as claims that Hamas beheaded 40 babies or committed systemic rape during the
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. On July 8, 2024, the
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took down several interviews about the
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posted by ''
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''. An interview of Scahill by
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on his interviews with
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officials for ''Drop Site News'' was among those taken down. Instagram's takedown notice said that the removed interviews included "symbols, praise, or support of people and organizations we define as dangerous". In 2025, The Palestine Laboratory Podcast of ''Drop Site News'' was named a finalist of the Quill Award for best podcast by the
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.


Journalists

Drop Site's journalists include Grim, Scahill, Renner, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Murtaza Hussain. During the Gaza war, Palestinian journalist
Hossam Shabat Hossam Shabat (; 10 October 2001 – 24 March 2025) was a Palestinian journalist who reported on the Gaza war as a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, ''Al Jazeera Mubasher'' and also contributed to Drop Site News, ''Drop Site News''. Shab ...
worked for Drop Site News, reporting from the northern
Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...
, before he was killed in March 2025.


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Official website
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