Jason Leopold
- January 4, 2024
- Journalist
Quick Facts
Full Name | Jason Leopold |
Occupation | Journalist |
Date Of Birth | Oct 7, 1969(1969-10-07) |
Age | 55 |
Country | United States |
Horoscope | Libra |
Jason Leopold Biography
Name | Jason Leopold |
Birthday | Oct 7 |
Birth Year | 1969 |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Libra |
Jason Leopold is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on October 7, 1969 in United States. American journalist that rose up his ranks and became an investigative reporter at the top of the line for BuzzFeed News. His articles have also been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.
He co-authored the report that was controversial in the year 2019 which claimed that the president He co-wrote a controversial report in 2019 that alleged President Donald Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress. The incident was denied by special counsel Robert Mueller. directed his lawyer to lie before Congress. The report was denied by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
Leopold began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for The Reporter Dispatch newspaper in White Plains, New York. He 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. Leopold next worked as a city editor and reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He then worked for Dow Jones Newswires as its Los Angeles bureau chief. According to a Washington Post report, the press release for Leopold’s book Off the Record (published later as News Junkie) stated that “He says he was fired by the Los Angeles Times ‘for threatening to rip a reporter’s head off'”. Leopold says he quit Dow Jones Newswires in a dispute over his beat, but later learned the news service was planning to fire him because of a correction to one of his Enron stories: “Seems I got all of the facts wrong”. Leopold was later the US correspondent for 95bFM in Auckland, New Zealand.
Leopold’s reporting on Enron was featured in a National Public Radio special broadcast, “Blind Trust.” According to Publishers Weekly, Leopold was “one of the few reporters who’d actually interviewed Enron President Jeff Skilling” following Enron’s bankruptcy in December 2001.
He’s been within Los Angeles, California.
Jason Leopold Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Journalist |
House | Living in own house. |
Jason Leopold is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jason Leopold 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He began his career by writing Obituaries in The Reporter Dispatch in White Plains, New York.
He received an News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination for Best Interview.
Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969) is an American senior investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. He was previously an investigative reporter for Al Jazeera America and Vice News. He 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. Leopold returned to Truthout as Deputy Managing Editor in October 2009 and was made lead investigative reporter in 2012 before leaving Truthout in May 2013. He makes extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act to research stories.
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Publishers Weekly wrote of News Junkie that “While there’s a lot of lying admitted to in this scrappy memoir, from Leopold’s hiding of his criminal past to his playing of sources to get his scoops, it’s (probably) not an untruthful memoir—indeed, it might become required reading for aspiring journalists.” The book was on the Los Angeles Times’ Bestsellers / Paperbacks list on June 11, 2006 and July 16, 2006.
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Jason Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jason Leopold celebrates birthday on October 7 of every year.
In 2010 Leopold and psychologist and human rights worker Jeffrey Kaye requested information on the use of psycho-active drugs on Guantanamo captives. Captives and former captives had been reporting medical staff collaborating with interrogators to drug captives with powerful psychoactive drugs prior to interrogation since the very first captives release. The report from the Pentagon Inspector General was declassified, and in which the Pentagon concludes that the injections were flu shots, IV hydration (sometimes post-hunger strike), and medical treatment with or without consent, and “were not mind-altering drugs for interrogation purposes”. The report does say that a detainee was given a routine flu shot, and was told that the shot was a truth serum or hallucinogen “as a ruse”.