Jo Becker is an American journalist and author and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. She works as an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Formerly with the Washington Post, she and her colleague there Barton Gellman won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles titled Angler, which explored the role of Vice President Dick Cheney. (Angler was a Cheney Secret Service codename.) She also shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a New York Times series examining Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to project power abroad, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories exposing the Trump administration's ties to Russia. She is the author of Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality, published by Penguin Press and named one the best non-fiction books of 2014 by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and the Washington Post.
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