Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by "The Guardian" newspaper. The first of these reports were published in June 2013. The reports were about the United States and British global surveillance programs. They were based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for these reports. Greenwald has written several best-selling books, including, "No Place to Hide".