The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power (2021)
Ben Schreckinger (born c. 1990) is an American journalist and writer. He is a national political correspondent for Politico Magazine, author, and "long-form writer."[2] He is the author of The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power— a book on the life of U.S. President Joe Biden.[3][4]
Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said that a 2017 article on Trump and Putin by Schreckinger it "evokes age-old myths about Jews".[14] In March and June 2016, Schreckinger was denied entry to[15][16] or ejected from then-candidate and future U.S. President Trump events he was covering at the time.[17] In the latter case, Schreckinger had entered using a general admission ticket, not a press pass, so a security guard removed him.[18] In the summer of 2019, Schreckinger reported on bias at the Southern Poverty Law Center.[19]
Reporting on Biden family
In November 2020, Schreckinger signed a contract with Twelve to write his The Bidens book;[2] upon its 2021 publication, Bret Stephens characterized it in The New York Times as "scrupulously reported".[20] That same year, Brown Political Review reported Schreckinger was the first reporter by a "reputable news organization" to confirm some of the emails in the Hunter Biden laptop story.[21] A Biden campaign spokesman described one of Schreckinger's articles about a property transaction conducted by one of Biden's brothers as "an absolute joke."[22]
^ abAllen, Mike (18 November 2020). "Scoop: Battle of the Biden books". Axios. Retrieved 28 March 2022. Ben Schreckinger, a long-form writer who works the "Biden Inc." beat at Politico, has signed a deal with prestige publisher Twelve
^Gilmore, Jim (17 September 2019). "America's Great Divide". Frontline (American TV program). Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 28 March 2022. I was the editor of Politico at the time, and we assigned perhaps our youngest political reporter, also one of our most talented, but basically a guy, he was on his first full-time job after Brown, and we sent him up to New York to cover this, Ben Schreckinger
^"The Southern Poverty Law Center: Anti-Hate Activists, Slick Marketers or Both?". WNYC. New York Public Radio. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2022. This summer Politico staff writer Ben Schreckinger wrote, "Has a Civil Rights Stalwart Lost Its Way?" Schreckinger leads Bob through the primary criticisms faced by the SPLC throughout its 40-year history--including accusations that they have engaged in left-wing partisanship and that they have favored marketing and fundraising over education and litigation
^Sloan, Sacha (18 November 2021). "Hunter's Laptop, Deepfakes, and the Arbitration of Truth". Brown Political Review. Retrieved 28 March 2022. Politico slipped into a morning newsletter that one of its reporters, Ben Schreckinger, had corroborated some of the emails in the cache—including the email about the 2015 Burisma meeting. Politico hedged its bombshell report, acknowledging that in addition to the "genuine files, it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in." But even partial confirmation of the laptop story by a major, reputable news organization began to turn heads