Jo Becker is an award winning investigative reporter for
The New York Times. While writing for the
Washington Post, she won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles she co-authored on Vice President Dick Cheney.
With
The New York Times she has broken stories on everything from the United States’ lethal program to kill suspected terrorists to the British phone-hacking affair, the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal and corruption in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
She previously worked for The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire and “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.”
Ms. Becker is also the author of
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality, a book that the
New York Times Sunday book review called a "stunningly intimate story" and the
Washington Post labeled "a "spellbinder of a tale" that chronicles a "riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train."
After graduating from Mountain Lakes High School, Ms. Becker attended and graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a BA in political science.
Ms. Becker has taught investigative journalism as a visiting professor at Princeton University, and her work has earned her numerous awards.