{{short description|American journalist and writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Ben Schreckinger | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|27|2017|June|27}}<ref name="journalism">{{cite news |first1=Kelly |last1=Kasulis |title=How to get into political journalism and do it really well |url=https://thegroundtruthproject.org/get-political-journalism-really-well/ |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=The Ground Truth Project |date=27 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref> | birth_place = Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. | education = Brown University (BA) | occupation = Journalist, author, national political correspondent | employer = ''Politico Magazine'' | works = ''The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power'' (2021) }}
'''Ben Schreckinger''' (born c. 1990) is an American journalist and writer. He is a national political correspondent for ''Politico Magazine'' and 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.<ref>{{Citation |title=New book explores the Bidens' rise to power and influence |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-book-explores-the-bidens-rise-to-power-and-influence/ |language=en-US |access-date=2022-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Biden family's secrets |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/01/the-biden-familys-secrets-514835 |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Politico |date=October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Schreckinger is from Belmont, Massachusetts.<ref name=BDH>{{Cite web |title=Herald says hello to 121st editorial board, other 2011 leaders |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2010/11/herald-says-hello-to-121st-editorial-board-other-2011-leaders |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=The Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US}}</ref> 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''.<ref name=BDH /> Later he freelanced as a ghostwriter for a consultancy's blog, for ''The Boston Globe'', and for ''Boston Magazine''.<ref name="journalism" /><ref name="The Fund for American Studies">{{cite news |title=IPJ Awards $18,500 In Cash Prizes For Outstanding Reporting |url=https://tfas.org/news/ipj-awards-18500-cash-prizes-outstanding-reporting/ |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=The Fund for American Studies |date=17 July 2011 |quote=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}}</ref>
== Career == ''Politico'' was Schreckinger's first full-time job following his education at Brown University.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Jim |last1=Gilmore |title=America's Great Divide |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/susan-glasser-2/ |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=Frontline (American TV program) |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |date=17 September 2019 |quote=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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-bidens-is-the-first-family-corrupt?s=r|title="The Bidens": Is the First Family Corrupt, or Merely Crazy?|date=19 October 2021}}</ref> He has also written for ''Salon, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe'' and for ''GQ.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/writer/ben_schreckinger|title=Ben Schreckinger's Articles at Salon.com|website=www.salon.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-01-10 |title=Five of the best: Dublin coffee bars |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/d35891dc-78c6-11e3-a148-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2022-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |title=Ben Schreckinger |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ben-schreckinger/ |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Ben |last=Schreckinger |date=November 25, 2012 |title=Virtue Inc.|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/11/25/virtue-inc/sMNhJRcOIgZ0rqjpLTALrN/story.html |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Ed |last1=Kilgore |title=Very Trumpy Florida Congressman May Move to Alabama to Run Against Doug Jones |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/matt-gaetz-may-move-to-alabama-to-run-against-doug-jones.html |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=New York |date=4 April 2019 |language=en |quote=last year a GQ piece by Ben Schreckinger}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{cite news |first1=Dave |last1=Goldiner |title=Politico Called Anti-Semitic For Accusing Chabad In Trump's Russia Scandal |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/368669/politico-called-anti-semitic-for-accusing-chabad-in-trumps-russia-scandal/ |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=The Forward |date=9 April 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In March and June 2016, Schreckinger was denied entry to<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/03/ben-schreckinger-denied-access-donald-trump-220836|title = Politico reporter denied access to Trump event|website = Politico| date=15 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/16/media/politico-reporter-trump/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317165358/http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/16/media/politico-reporter-trump/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 17, 2016|title = Trump campaign blocks Politico reporter from victory rally|date = 16 March 2016}}</ref> or ejected from then-candidate and future U.S. President Trump events he was covering at the time.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-politico-press_n_57516ab5e4b0ed593f140ef1|title=Trump Campaign Stops Reporter from Doing Journalism at Rally|newspaper=Huffpost |date=3 June 2016}}</ref> In the latter case, Schreckinger had entered using a general admission ticket, not a press pass, so a security guard removed him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-security-politico-reporter-223856#ixzz4AW37dZlv|title=Trump security removes Politico reporter from rally|website=Politico|date=3 June 2016 }}</ref> In the summer of 2019, Schreckinger reported on bias at the Southern Poverty Law Center.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Southern Poverty Law Center: Anti-Hate Activists, Slick Marketers or Both? |url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/southern-poverty-law-center-anti-hate-slick-marketers-both |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=WNYC |publisher=New York Public Radio |date=7 September 2017 |language=en |quote=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}}</ref>
In November 2020, Schreckinger signed a contract with Twelve to write his ''The Bidens'' book;<ref name="axios">{{cite news |first1=Mike |last1=Allen |title=Scoop: Battle of the Biden books |url=https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-book-deals-3b619b13-6c5c-4f44-b85f-8a724ce7fceb.html |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=Axios |date=18 November 2020 |language=en |quote=Ben Schreckinger, a long-form writer who works the "Biden Inc." beat at Politico, has signed a deal with prestige publisher Twelve}}</ref> upon its 2021 publication, Bret Stephens characterized it in ''The New York Times'' as "scrupulously reported".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/biden-ethics-son.html|title = Opinion | an Ethically Challenged Presidency|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 5 October 2021|last1 = Stephens|first1 = Bret}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Sacha |last1=Sloan |title=Hunter's Laptop, Deepfakes, and the Arbitration of Truth |url=https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/11/hunters-laptop-deepfakes-and-the-arbitration-of-truth/ |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=Brown Political Review |quote=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|date=18 November 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |title=Lobbyist bought tropical land from Biden's brother |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/james-biden-lobbyist-virgin-islands-099318 |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=Politico |date=28 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
== Books == * {{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2021 |title=The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power |url= |location= |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |page= |isbn=9781538738009}}<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Christian |last1=Lorentzen |title=The Family Biden |journal=London Review of Books |date=6 January 2022 |volume=44 |issue=1 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n01/christian-lorentzen/the-family-biden |access-date=28 March 2022 |publisher=Reneé Doegar |location=Bloomsbury, London |language=en |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>
==Awards== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |- ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Award ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Ref heading}} |- ! scope="row" | 2011 |The Fund for American Studies Award |Outstanding Reporting |{{won}} | style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="The Fund for American Studies"/> |- ! scope="row" | 2021 |National Headliner Award |Best Magazine Column |{{won}} | style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2021 |title=87th National Headliner Awards winners |url=https://www.headlinerawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-headliner-winners-print-photo-winners-1.pdf}}</ref> |}
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