29 Facts About Jason Leopold

Jason Arthur Leopold was born on October 7,1969 and is an American investigative reporter who writes for Bloomberg News.

Jason Leopold was previously an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, Al Jazeera America, and Vice News.

Jason Leopold worked at Truthout as a senior editor and reporter, a position he left after three years on February 19,2008, to co-found the web-based political magazine The Public Record, Leopold's profile page on The Public Record now says he is Editor-at-Large.

Jason Leopold makes extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act to research stories.

Jason Leopold was the journalist who forced the release of all of Hillary Clinton's emails through the Freedom of Information Act.

Jason Leopold has written about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as The Guardian, Alternet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, The Huffington Post, Political Affairs Magazine, The Raw Story, Scoop, ZNet and others.

Jason Leopold began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for The Reporter Dispatch newspaper in White Plains, New York.

Jason Leopold became the crime and courts reporter for the Whittier Daily News in 1997 and then moved to the City News Service where he covered court trials.

Jason Leopold next worked as a city editor and reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Jason Leopold then worked for Dow Jones Newswires as its Los Angeles bureau chief.

Jason Leopold was later the US correspondent for 95bFM in Auckland, New Zealand.

In 2020, Natalie Edwards pled guilty to leaking FinCEN information to Jason Leopold, including internal FinCEN emails, investigative memos and intelligence assessments.

Jason Leopold was referred to as "one of the most aggressive reporters" on the California energy crisis by Jill Stewart, a columnist for the now-defunct New Times LA newspaper in Los Angeles.

Paul Krugman of The New York Times, who wrote a piece based in part on Jason Leopold's work, had to backpedal, acknowledging that he should not have cited the e-mail.

Salon removed the story from its website and said that Jason Leopold had plagiarized text from the FT, but the article remains in the Nexis archives.

Jason Leopold disclosed how he lied to employers about a criminal conviction for larceny that took place when Leopold was in his 20s and working in the record business.

On May 13,2006, Jason Leopold reported on Truthout that Karl Rove had been indicted by the grand jury investigating the Plame affair.

Rove writes that Jason Leopold is a "nut with Internet access" and that "thirty-five reporters called [Robert] Luskin or Corallo to ask about the Truthout report".

Jason Leopold's investigative reporting on safety issues at BP has been cited by CNN, 60 Minutes and the Los Angeles Times.

The hearing, titled "The Safety of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines : Integrity Management," cited an investigative report by Jason Leopold, published at Truthout as a document for the committee's investigation.

Jason Leopold is the journalist whose Freedom of Information Act lawsuit forced the State Department to release all of Hillary Clinton's emails on a monthly basis.

Jason Leopold has been widely noted in the media as responsible for sensitive information disclosures including abusive treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

On 18 January 2019, Leopold co-authored an explosive report that alleged Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer Michael D Cohen to lie to Congress about the Moscow tower project, a construction deal at the heart of an investigation by the special counsel Robert S Mueller III.

Jason Leopold is an Emmy nominated producer, the recipient of the FOI Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors and a member of the team awarded the Tom Renner Award in 2018 from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a member of the team named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

Jason Leopold was a Pulitzer finalist in 2021 as one of the lead reporters on the FinCEN Files investigation, a collaboration between BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Jason Leopold won a George Polk award and a Loeb award for health reporting and investigative reporting.

Jason Leopold's stories have appeared three times on Project Censored's top-25 under-reported stories of the year: once in 2004, for a story he wrote about an alleged secret meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger had with Ken Lay before the film star's being elected Governor of California, for a story he wrote on Halliburton in 2005, and again in 2011 for a story he wrote on a controversial "spiritual fitness test" the Army required all of its enlisted soldiers.

In 2008, Jason Leopold received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Jason Leopold shared the 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for investigative business journalism for "Profit, Pain, and Private Equity".