Drop Site News
independent investigative news website
Drop Site News is a nonprofit investigative news outlet founded by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill in July 2024. It is based in Washington, D.C., United States. It describes itself as non-aligned. Other media organizations have described Drop Site News as an independent outlet.
History
In July 2024, Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill founded Drop Site News, with Nausicaa Renner as a founding editor. All three formerly worked at The Intercept, 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. MENA editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous explained the position of the outlet, saying "Drop Site will cover the Democrats as critically as we will cover Republicans—we're not going to change depending on who's in power ... Our ethos is adversarial journalism."
The New York Times listed the establishment of Drop Site News along with Taylor Lorenz's User Mag, Oliver Darcy's Status, and 404 Media, founded by former staff of Vice Motherboard, as instances of "a series of journalists leaving legacy media institutions in recent years to strike out on their own".
In September 2025, Grim announced that Nika Soon-Shiong, daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, would serve as Drop Site News's publisher.
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