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Glenn Greenwald to move to The Guardian

Glenn Greenwald, the political columnist who joined Salon.com in 2007, is moving to The Guardian.

Greenwald, a former constitutional and civil rights lawyer based in Rio de Janeiro, will move his blog en masse to the Guardian's website on Aug. 20, and will also write a formal weekly column that will occasionally appear in the Guardian's print edition.

"Salon has been and remains an ideal place for me to write, but the Guardian offers the opportunity to reach a new audience, to further internationalize my readership, and to be re-invigorated by a different environment," Greenwald told POLITICO. "Salon has fully supported my work in every possible way, which makes it difficult to leave, but I'm an admirer of the Guardian's journalism and concluded that it was a great match."

At the Guardian, Greenwald will join other high-profile American columnists who have come on board over the last year — including Ana Marie Cox, Naomi Wolf, and Michael Wolff — as the progressive British paper has sought to broaden its reach in the United States.

"We're really, really happy with the people that we've signed; they're all good at attacking what they do in different ways," Janine Gibson, the Guardian's U.S. editor, told POLITICO. "Glenn has written for us before, and he is a really good fit. We love the way he talks to and with his readers."

Greenwald, the author of three New York Times bestsellers (two about the Bush administration's executive and foreign policy overreach), lives in Brazil with his husband, but makes frequent trips to the U.S.

"Brazil gives immigration rights to the same-sex spouses of its citizens, while the U.S. doesn't," Greenwald explains of his decision to live abroad. "So we can only live together in Brazil, not in the U.S."

UPDATE: Greenwald has published a post with more details about the move.