Carol Leonnig
Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The Washington Post; Author, "A Very Stable Genius"
Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has worked at The Washington Post since 2000, currently focused on the White House and government accountability. Carol is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC
She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her work on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service, and was part of a Post team that was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for revealing the U.S. government’s secret, broad surveillance of Americans through the disclosures of Edward Snowden. She is also a three-time winner of the George Polk award for investigative reporting.
In January 2020, Carol released A Very Stable Genius (Penguin Books) with co-author Philip Rucker – an inside look at Trump’s presidency that the New York Times called “meticulous” and “terrifying”. It placed first on the New York Times Best Seller list in its first week, and first overall on the USA Today best seller list.
Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has worked at The Washington Post since 2000, currently focused on the White House and government accountability. Carol is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC
She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her work on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service, and was part of a Post team that was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for revealing the U.S. government’s secret, broad surveillance of Americans through the disclosures of Edward Snowden. She is also a three-time winner of the George Polk award for investigative reporting.
In January 2020, Carol released A Very Stable Genius (Penguin Books) with co-author Philip Rucker – an inside look at Trump’s presidency that the New York Times called “meticulous” and “terrifying”. It placed first on the New York Times Best Seller list in its first week, and first overall on the USA Today best seller list.
