Carol D. Leonnig
Washington, D.C.
National investigative reporter focused on the White House and government accountability
Education: Bryn Mawr College
Carol Leonnig is an investigative reporter, four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of three best-selling books who has worked at The Washington Post since 2000.
Her reporting revealed broad misconduct and security failures within the Secret Service that put presidents’ lives in danger, winning Leonnig the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2015. She was part of Washington Post teams that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of the Russian interference in the presidential election and the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for documenting the NSA's secret and broad spying on innocent Ame
