18 Facts About Jane Mayer

Jane Meredith Mayer was born on 1955 and is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995.

Jane Mayer worked as a metropolitan reporter for the now-defunct Washington Star, and in 1982 joined The Wall Street Journal, where she worked for 12 years.

In 2009, Jane Mayer covered the Obama administration's use of drones.

In 2010, Jane Mayer published an article about the political activities of the Koch brothers, describing their "war against Obama" and funding of the Tea Party and nonprofit organizations that sought to block liberal policy proposals and defeat Democratic candidates.

In 2011, Jane Mayer reported on retail sales millionaire Art Pope's dominant spending in North Carolina politics.

In 2012, Jane Mayer wrote an article about President Obama's efforts to raise money from liberal billionaires and his campaign's decision to flip-flop and encourage fundraising from super PACs.

On May 7,2018, within hours of publication of an article Jane Mayer co-wrote with Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned, effective May 8,2018.

Jane Mayer was a guest on the Bill Moyers Journal show on PBS in 2008, and appeared as a guest on PBS Tavis Smiley show on August 7,2008, to discuss her book The Dark Side, which had just made The New York Times Best Seller list.

Jane Mayer appeared as a guest on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report on August 12,2008.

On January 26,2009, Jane Mayer was interviewed at the Yale Law School Law and Media lecture series by Linda Greenhouse, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, and Emily Bazelon, Truman Capote Fellow in Creative Writing.

In October 2008, Jane Mayer participated in a panel discussion of journalists at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, devoted to the media's coverage of the Iraq War.

Jane Mayer was awarded the 2008 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism for her investigative report leading to her book The Dark Side.

Jane Mayer was a finalist in the National Magazine Awards for 2007 for her nonfiction piece in The New Yorker entitled The Black Sites, which was collected in The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, published by Columbia University Press, and edited by Jacob Weisberg.

In 2008, Jane Mayer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in connection with her work on her third book, The Dark Side.

In 2009, Mayer was awarded the Hillman Prize, the Shorenstein Center's Goldsmith Book Prize for trade book of the year, and the J Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Dark Side.

Jane Mayer received the Edward Weinthal Award from Georgetown University in 2009 and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2010.

Jane Mayer was awarded the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting in 2011 for her investigative reporting on the relentless United States Department of Justice prosecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Andrews Drake.

In 2012, Jane Mayer received the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting for her coverage of North Carolina state politics.