

In 2009, Mayer was chosen as Princeton University’s Ferris Professor of Journalism. She is the co-author, with Jill Abramson, of “Strange Justice,” and, with Doyle McManus, of “Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988.” Carter Journalism Institute, and one of the ten best books of the year by the Times. She also wrote the 2008 Times best-seller “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals,” which was based on her New Yorker articles and was named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade by N.Y.U.’s Arthur L. She is the author of the 2016 Times best-seller “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” which the Times named as one of the ten best books of the year, and which began as a 2010 New Yorker piece about the Koch brothers’ deep influence on American politics. In 1984, she became the paper’s first female White House correspondent. Marine barracks in Beirut, the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Previously, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered the bombing of the U.S. The magazine’s chief Washington correspondent, she covers politics, culture, and national security.

Jane Mayer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995.
