Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff is an award-winning journalist and best- selling author who has worked as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, Newsweek, NBC News and Yahoo News. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books: Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia prosecutor, a Rogue President and the Plot to Steal an American Election (with Daniel Klaidman); Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (with David Corn); Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (also with David Corn) and Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story,” which chronicled his own reporting of the Monica Lewinsky story.

In 2015, Isikoff wrote and produced “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays,” a widely acclaimed documentary about the FBI’s sex deviates” program— a film that was screened at the National Archives and won an Edward R. Murrow award. He was the lead reporter on a Newsweek team that won the National Magazine Award for coverage of the events that lead to Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

In 2009, Isikoff was named on a list of the 50 “Best and Most Influential Journalists” in the nation’s capital by Washingtonian magazine. Isikoff graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in 1974 and received a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.