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Ben Schreckinger (born c. 1990) is an American journalist and writer. He is a national political correspondent for Politico Magazine, author, and "long-form writer."[2] He is the author of The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power— a book on the life of U.S. President Joe Biden.[3][4]
Ben Schreckinger | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1989 or 1990 (age 34–35)[1] |
| Education | Brown University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, national political correspondent, "long-form writer" |
| Employer | Politico Magazine |
| Works | The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power (2021) |
Schreckinger is from Belmont, Massachusetts.[5] He attended Brown University, where he studied classics and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012. As a student, he was Editor-in-Chief of The Brown Daily Herald.[5] Later he freelanced as a ghostwriter for a consultancy's blog, for The Boston Globe, and for Boston Magazine.[1][6]
Politico was Schreckinger's first full-time job following his education at Brown University.[7][8] He has also written for has also written for Salon, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe and for GQ.[9][10][11][12][13]
Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said that a 2017 article on Trump and Putin by Schreckinger it "evokes age-old myths about Jews".[14] In March and June 2016, Schreckinger was denied entry to[15][16] or ejected from then-candidate and future U.S. President Trump events he was covering at the time.[17] In the latter case, Schreckinger had entered using a general admission ticket, not a press pass, so a security guard removed him.[18] In the summer of 2019, Schreckinger reported on bias at the Southern Poverty Law Center.[19]
In November 2020, Schreckinger signed a contract with Twelve to write his The Bidens book;[2] upon its 2021 publication, Bret Stephens characterized it in The New York Times as "scrupulously reported".[20] That same year, Brown Political Review reported Schreckinger was the first reporter by a "reputable news organization" to confirm some of the emails in the Hunter Biden laptop story.[21] A Biden campaign spokesman described one of Schreckinger's articles about a property transaction conducted by one of Biden's brothers as "an absolute joke."[22]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Fund for American Studies Award | Outstanding Reporting | Won | [6] |
| 2021 | National Headliner Award | Best Magazine Column | Won | [24] |
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