The Intercept
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Type of site | News website |
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| URL | theintercept |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | February 10, 2014 |
The Intercept is an American progressive[1][2][3] or leftwing[4][5] nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online. The Intercept has published in English since its founding in 2014, and in Portuguese since the 2016 launch of the Brazilian edition staffed by a local team of Brazilian journalists.
- ^ Fischer, Sara (January 9, 2023). "Exclusive: The Intercept spinning off as an independent nonprofit". Axios. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
- ^ Perloff, Richard M. (July 27, 2021). "Introduction to Political Communication". The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 57. doi:10.4324/9780429298851-3. ISBN 9781000414677. Retrieved September 16, 2024 – via Google Books.
The advent of a host of online news platforms—Breitbart News on the right and The Intercept on the left—have cut into mainstream news's audience, with their predictable right- and left-wing takes on politics.
- ^ Lapper, Richard (June 3, 2021). "The outsider". Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro. Manchester University Press. p. 28. doi:10.7765/9781526154019.00005. ISBN 978-1-5261-4900-8. Retrieved September 16, 2024 – via Google Books.
Three years earlier, in an angry exchange with PT congresswoman Maria de Rosário, he told her that 'she was too ugly to rape', prompting Rosário to press criminal charges, and the left-wing publication The Intercept to describe Bolsonaro as 'the most misogynistic, hateful elected official in the democratic world'.
- ^ WJW Editorial Board (May 1, 2024). "The Intercept Is Stumbling".
- ^ Tani, Max (April 15, 2024). "The Intercept is running out of cash". Semafor. Retrieved September 2, 2025.