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 | |
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Born | 1989 or 1990 (age 33–34)[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. |
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2011 | The Fund for American Studies Award | Outstanding Reporting | Won | [6] |
2021 | National Headliner Award | Best Magazine Column | Won | [24] |
Ben Schreckinger, a long-form writer who works the "Biden Inc." beat at Politico, has signed a deal with prestige publisher Twelve
Ben Schreckinger of The Brown Daily Herald won a cash prize of $5,000 and the Robert Novak Collegiate Award for his story about Brown University's decision to handle rape cases internally without notifying law enforcement
I was the editor of Politico at the time, and we assigned perhaps our youngest political reporter, also one of our most talented, but basically a guy, he was on his first full-time job after Brown, and we sent him up to New York to cover this, Ben Schreckinger
last year a GQ piece by Ben Schreckinger
This summer Politico staff writer Ben Schreckinger wrote, "Has a Civil Rights Stalwart Lost Its Way?" Schreckinger leads Bob through the primary criticisms faced by the SPLC throughout its 40-year history--including accusations that they have engaged in left-wing partisanship and that they have favored marketing and fundraising over education and litigation
Politico slipped into a morning newsletter that one of its reporters, Ben Schreckinger, had corroborated some of the emails in the cache—including the email about the 2015 Burisma meeting. Politico hedged its bombshell report, acknowledging that in addition to the "genuine files, it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in." But even partial confirmation of the laptop story by a major, reputable news organization began to turn heads