Ben Schreckinger

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 35–36)[1] Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
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)

Early life and education

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]

Career

Politico was Schreckinger's first full-time job following his education at Brown University.^[7][8] He 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]

Reporting on Biden family

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]

Books

• The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power. Little, Brown and Company. 2021. ISBN 9781538738009.^[23]

Awards

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]