Name Michael Isikoff Role Journalist | Movies The Hacker Wars | |
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Alma mater Books Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story Education Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, Syosset High School, Washington University in St. Louis Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Similar People David Corn, Brian Williams, Pete Williams, Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt Profiles | ||
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Michael R. Isikoff (born June 16, 1952) is an American investigative journalist who is currently the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News.
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- Michael isikoff on the us government s uniquely nasty war on gays interview w cenk uygur
- Michael isikoff and cenk uygur on the state of the news media today edited interview
- Early life and career
- Personal life
- References
From July 2010 to April 2014, Isikoff was the national investigative correspondent for NBC News. He resigned from NBC, citing the network's move in a direction that left him with "fewer opportunities" for his work. He had previously worked for Newsweek, which he joined as an investigative correspondent in June 1994, and wrote extensively on the U.S. government's War on Terrorism, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, campaign finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues.
Isikoff had been prepared to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but several hours before going to print, the article was killed by top Newsweek executives. As a result, the story broke first on Matt Drudge's Drudge Report the following morning. Isikoff's book on the subject, Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Book of the Month Club.
Michael isikoff and cenk uygur on the state of the news media today edited interview
Early life and career
Isikoff was born to a Jewish family, the son of Gertrude "Trudy" (née Albert) and Morris Isikoff. He was raised in Syosset, New York. He has one sister.
Isikoff graduated from Syosset High School on Long Island in 1970. He received his A.B. from Washington University in 1974, with a junior-year-abroad at the University of Durham, England, and obtained a masters from the Medill School of Journalism from Northwestern University in 1976.
Isikoff is the co-author, with The Nation reporter David Corn, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, a 2006 book about the selling of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to the U.S. public and the ensuing Plame scandal. The book was a New York Times best-seller.
His online column with fellow journalist Mark Hosenball, "Terror Watch," won the 2005 award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best investigative reporting online. Isikoff was a part of the Newsweek team that won the Overseas Press Club’s most prestigious award, the 2001 Ed Cunningham Memorial Award for best magazine reporting from abroad for Newsweek's coverage of the war on terror.
In the May 9, 2005, issue of Newsweek, Isikoff co-wrote an article that stated that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay "in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Quran down a toilet." Detainees had earlier made similar complaints but this was the first time a government source had appeared to confirm the story. The article caused widespread rioting and massive anti-American protests throughout some parts of the Islamic world (causing at least 17 deaths in Afghanistan). The magazine later retracted the story after noting that the anonymous official who was their source subsequently could not remember important details. A subsequent June 4, 2005, report by the Pentagon, however, confirmed multiple instances of desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo, including one incident in which urine was splashed on a Quran. Isikoff has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
He has appeared on the Democracy Now! show.
Personal life
In January 2007, Isikoff married former Washington, D.C. political gossip columnist Mary Ann Akers, who wrote "The Sleuth" for The Washington Post. They have a son, Zachary Akers Isikoff, born in 2009. He was previously married to Lisa Stein, with whom he has a daughter, Willa Isikoff.