Jo Becker


Jo Becker is an American journalist and author and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. She works as an investigative reporter for The New York Times.

Work

Becker worked for the St. Petersburg Times, the Concord Monitor and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour before starting at the Washington Post in 2000 where she covered local and state politics before joining the investigative projects team. Since 2007, she has worked at The New York Times as an investigative reporter.
Becker and Washington Post colleague Barton Gellman won the 2008 Pulitzer prize in national reporting for a series of articles "documenting the power wielded in secrecy by Vice President Dick Cheney." She also shared the 2017 Pulitzer prize in international reporting awarded to the New York Times staff for a series or articles examining Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to "project power abroad and undermine the 2016 American presidential election," and the 2018 Pulitzer prize in national reporting awarded to the staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post for stories exposing the Trump administration's ties to Russia.
Becker is the author of Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality, published by Penguin Press, a book about the legal battle to bring the issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court. The book received positive reviews. It made the New York Times list of "100 notable books of 2014," the Washington Post list of "50 notable works of nonfiction," and the Kirkus Reviews list of "Best Nonfiction Books of 2014."

Early life and education

Raised in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Becker graduated from Mountain Lakes High School in 1985 and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2014.
Becker has a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado in political science.
For the academic year of 2012-2013, Becker was appointed as a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, teaching investigative reporting.

Awards