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Jo Becker
Journalist

Jo Becker

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Investigating political power and writing Forcing the Spring.

Cheney investigation · Forcing the Spring

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Jo Becker

Jo Becker is an American investigative journalist whose reporting has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Early life

Education

Studied political science at the University of Colorado.

Career

  1. 2000

    Washington Post

    Joined the newspaper, moving from political coverage to investigative work.

  2. 2007

    New York Times

    Joined as an investigative reporter.

Selected work

Cheney investigation

Reported with Barton Gellman on the vice-president’s power, sharing the 2008 national-reporting Pulitzer.

Forcing the Spring

Wrote about the legal campaign for marriage equality.

Beyond work

Teaching

Has taught investigative journalism as a visiting professor at Princeton University, sharing reporting methods alongside her work in newspapers.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Teaching — biographical source ↗

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Photo: Fuzheado. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.