Jo Becker is an award-winning journalist, currently an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Formerly with the Washington Post, she won, with Barton Gellman, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Ms. Becker and Mr. Gellman won the prize with a series of articles titled Angler, which explored the role of Vice President Dick Cheney. (Angler was a Cheney Secret Service codename.)
She worked for the St. Petersburg Times, the Concord Monitor and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, before starting at the Washington Post in 2000. She covered local and state politics then joined the investigative projects team. She now works at The New York Times as an investigative reporter, where she has written extensively about the backgrounds of the 2008 presidential candidates and the 2008 financial crisis.
Shared the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Journalism for "The Reckoning," a New York Times series on the 2008 financial meltdown. The series also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with Barton Gellman.
2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Barton Gellman. HONORS - washingtonpost.com
2007 George Polk Award for political reporting, with Barton Gellman. HONORS - washingtonpost.com
2005 Selden Ring Award for reporting on lead in water systems across the country
1998 Livingston Award for her coverage of corruption in local government