Reporter, Washington Post; Class of '16 Former Editor-in-Chief, YDN
February 17, 2020 - 4:00pm
Reporting on Politics Amid Disinformation and Fake News
Jonathan Edwards College
70 High St.
February 17, 2020 - 7:00pm
A conversation with Isaac Stanley Becker on covering the presidential campaigns
LC 211
63 High St.
Co-sponsored by The Politic
About Isaac Stanley-Becker ‘16
Since graduating Yale (where he was Yale Daily News editor-in-chief) in 2016, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, Stanley-Becker has earned an DPhil (Balliol College; his dissertation: “Citizens’ Europe: Free Markets, Free Movement, and the Making of Schengen.” He has also done extensive reporting in seven countries, working first as an intern at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and, in Washington, for the Wall Street Journal. Since 2017 he has been a reporter for the Washington Post in Germany and other European countries. He has covered local American news, Congress in Washington, developments in Europe, and, now, the U.S. presidential campaign.