Ben Schreckinger

Ben Schreckinger, aged 31–32,[1] 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]

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 ofThe 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 and both Susan Glasser —in 2019— and Matt Taibbi —in 2021— described him as "young."[7][8]. He has also written for has also written for Salon and for GQ.[9][10]

In March and June 2016, Schreckinger was denied entry to[11][12] or ejected from then-candidate and future U.S. President Trump events he was covering at the time.[13] In the latter case, Schreckinger had entered using a general admission ticket, not a press pass, so a security guard removed him.[14] A 2017 article on Trump and Putin by Schreckinger was panned by The Federalist and the Jewish publications Tablet, and The Forward; Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said it "evokes age-old myths about Jews".[15][16][17] In the summer of 2019, Schreckinger reported on bias at the Southern Poverty Law Center.[18] 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".[19] 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.[20]