Jason Leopold

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Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold on RT America in March 2012
Born	October 7, 1969
Nationality	American
Occupation	Journalist

Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969)^[1] is an American investigative reporter who writes for Bloomberg News.^[2] He was previously an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News,^[3] Al Jazeera America,^[4] and Vice News.^[5] 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.^[6] Leopold returned to Truthout as Deputy Managing Editor in October 2009 and was made lead investigative reporter in 2012^[7] before leaving Truthout in May 2013.^[8] He makes extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act to research stories.^[9]

Leopold was the journalist who forced the release of all of Hillary Clinton's emails through the Freedom of Information Act. He was identified by the Transactional Access Clearinghouse as "by far the most active individual FOIA litigator in the United States today."^[10] He has written stories on a many subjects including in the past decades on BP, Enron, the California Energy Crisis, the Bush administration's torture policies, and the Plame affair. His pieces have been published in The Guardian,^[11] Asia Times,^[12] the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS MarketWatch,^[13][14][15] The Nation, and Utne Reader. He has also written about foreign and domestic policy online for publications such as The Guardian,^[11] Alternet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, The Huffington Post, Political Affairs Magazine, The Raw Story, Scoop, ZNet and others.