Spencer Ackerman

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Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman in 2008.jpg
Ackerman at Netroots Nation in 2008[1]
Born (1980-06-01) June 1, 1980 (age 41)
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationRutgers University (BA)
OccupationJournalist, writer
Years active2002-present
Known forReporting on biased FBI training material, 2013 global surveillance disclosures, and Chicago Police detention practices
Notable work
Reign of Terror
Awards2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media, 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Websitewww.thedailybeast.com/author/spencer-ackerman

Spencer Ackerman is an American journalist and writer. Focusing primarily on national security, he began his career at The New Republic in 2002 before writing for Wired, The Guardian and The Daily Beast.[2][3][4][5]

He won a 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting on biased FBI training materials and a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures.[6][7]

During his career, Ackerman has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.[8][9][10]

Early life and education[]

Born to a Jewish family on June 1, 1980, Ackerman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1998 and Rutgers University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.[11][12][13][14]

During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he covered the Bush campaign for Rutgers' student newspaper, The Daily Targum.[15] He earned a 2002 Certificate of Merit from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in news writing for his coverage of the post election recount in Florida.[16] While attending Rutgers, Ackerman also worked for the New York Press, a now defunct free alternative weekly that covered New York City.[17] Initially hired to manage incoming mail for the listings section, he later became a fact checker and a writer.[18][19][20]

Career[]

Following his graduation from Rutgers, Ackerman moved to Washington, D.C. to join The New Republic where he covered national security. In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, Ackerman said witnessing the September 11 attacks influenced his decision to cover national security, which he viewed as the most important story facing the nation at the time.[21] He worked at The New Republic (TNR) until 2006, when he started a blog titled Too Hot for TNR[22] and was fired over what he described as irreconcilable ideological differences.[23] Franklin Foer, a then-editor at the magazine, said he fired Ackerman for insubordination and disparaging the magazine on his blog.[24][25]

Ackerman next began writing for The American Prospect[26] as well as Talking Points Memo.[27] In a column for The Wall Street Journal, Marie Beaudette named Ackerman as part of a "blogging elite" in Washington, D.C. that took up the practice as a hobby or to launch a career.[28]

While at The American Prospect and Talking Points Memo, Ackerman also contributed to the Washington Monthly on national security.[29]

The Washington Independent and Attackerman[]

In December 2007, Ackerman joined The Washington Independent as a senior fellow, where he covered national security and foreign policy.[30][31] He described the publication as taking a new approach in using the internet to continuously develop and update stories while also providing detailed and innovative coverage on select beats.[32]

Shortly after his arrival, he wrote a series on the Bush Administration's torture policy and use of enhanced interrogation tactics, including the detention of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.[33][34][35][36] In September 2008, he traveled to Afghanistan to embed with the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division.[37] During his embed, Ackerman interviewed several Afghan residents about their security concerns and uncovered corruption within the Afghan police units jointly patrolling with U.S. forces.[38][39]

Throughout 2008, Ackerman authored a blog series on the U.S. military's counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.[40][41][42] He explained the debate between Paul Yingling and Gian Gentile, two U.S. Army officers with differing perspectives on military policy in the Global War on Terrorism. Yingling argued the U.S. military must embrace principles of counterinsurgency while Gentile believed the military moved too far in the direction of counterinsurgency while ignoring the limits of U.S. military power.[43] The series also profiled General David Petraeus and then Major General Ray Odierno during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 as well as several women who attained positions related to counterinsurgency within the Pentagon including Janine Davidson, Sarah Sewall, Michèle Flournoy, and Montgomery McFate.[44][45][46]

Aside from his regular writing for The Washington Independent, Ackerman continued maintaining a personal blog. After ending publication of Too Hot for TNR in April 2008, he started the Attackerman blog at ThinkProgress, which he used to provide additional commentary on national security issues.[47] In June 2008, Ackerman moved the blog to Firedoglake.[48][49]

In August 2009, Politico reported Ackerman was one of numerous reporters profiled by the Rendon Group, a public relations firm hired by the Pentagon to vet journalists requesting embeds with U.S. forces in Iraq.[50] The requests were granted based on whether their coverage of the conflict portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.[51][52] While several journalists received copies of their vetting reports, Rendon did not provide Ackerman with their report on him.[53] The revelations prompted the military to end their contract with the firm.[54]

Towards the end of his tenure, he toured the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in April 2010, for the second time in his career.[55] His coverage also included the detention and pretrial proceedings of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.[56][57]

Wired[]

Ackerman joined Wired magazine's Danger Room in June 2010, a blog dedicated to covering national security.[58] Then editor, Noah Shachtman, described the blog as a "less political" and "more geeky" place compared to Ackerman's previous publications.[59] Within months of his arrival, Ackerman covered the numerous WikiLeaks disclosures on Afghanistan, Iraq, and the diplomatic cables.[60][61][62][63] Towards the end of August 2010, he traveled to Afghanistan, embedding with U.S. troops and interviewing David Petraeus.[64][65][66]

In July 2010, The Daily Caller reported on Ackerman's membership in JournoList, a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the news media created by Ezra Klein in February 2007.[67] Coverage of the revelations noted Ackerman's comments on conservative rhetoric surrounding the Jeremiah Wright controversy, which he made while writing for The Washington Independent.[68] In a column for The Wall Street Journal, James Taranto, criticized Ackerman for "privately strategizing about how to suppress the news."[69] Ackerman faced additional criticism from Ed Morrissey, Andrew Breitbart, Daniel Foster, Matt Welch, Andrew Sullivan, and Sydney Smith.[70][71][72][73][74][75] Others such as Steve Krakauer of Mediaite and Jonathan Chait of The New Republic questioned whether the forum represented a controversy.[76][77] Chait also published a specific response to Sullivan's claims, noting that conservative bloggers also participate in similar forums.[78] A spokesperson for Wired defended Ackerman, adding the publication was aware of his political views.[79]

Due to his blog's affiliation with Firedoglake, Ackerman experienced difficulties obtaining permanent press credentials from the Congressional Press Gallery.[80] He left Firedoglake in December 2010 to independently host the Attackerman blog on Typepad, before transitioning a custom built website, where he would continue posting until April 2013.[81][82][83]

Following a FOIA request in 2011, Ackerman wrote a series of stories that exposed Islamophobic material used to train recruits in counterterrorism at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.[84] His initial reporting revealed bias in the FBI's guides on Islam before exposing additional materials in the agency's library.[85][86] Following the revelations, the FBI launched an investigation and turned to the U.S. Army's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point before eventually purging the materials.[87][88][89] The series earned Ackerman a 2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media.[90]

Aside from covering national security, Ackerman wrote about developments in military technology. In 2012, he toured the Autonomous Systems Research Lab at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., covering the development of Octavia, a robot designed to carry out human tasks on naval vessels.[91] He also covered the experimentation of the U.S. Army's Active Denial System, a device that projects a heat ray for crowd control.[92][93] The following year, Ackerman traveled on the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush to cover the launch of the X-47B, the first UAV to take-off from an aircraft carrier.[94]

In a January 2012 column for Tablet magazine, Ackerman expressed disagreement with the use of the term "Israel Firster", writing, "if you can’t do it without sounding like Pat Buchanan, who has nothing but antipathy and contempt for Jews, then you’ve lost the debate."[95] Identifying himself as part of the Jewish left, Ackerman noted the term was first used by far-right activist Willis Carto and neo-Nazi David Duke.[96] The Jerusalem Post editorial board and Commentary's then assistant editor, Alana Goodman, came to Ackerman's defense.[97][98] He was criticized by Richard Silverstein in Eurasia Review and Philip Weiss in Mondoweiss.[99][100]

The Guardian[]

In June 2013, Ackerman joined The Guardian as a national security editor, initially at their Washington bureau before eventually relocating back to New York.[101] During his onboarding process, Ackerman's job orientation functioned as cover for a briefing on the 2013 Global surveillance disclosures, which the publication had just received from Edward Snowden.[102]

He contributed to several stories on the revelations that culminated in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[103][104] Alongside Glenn Greenwald, Ackerman's reporting showed the National Security Agency's bulk collection programs continued during the first two years of the Obama Administration after being initiated by George W. Bush.[105] In a piece coauthored with James Ball, Ackerman revealed how loopholes allowed the NSA to legally search for U.S. citizens' email and phone calls without a warrant.[106] As a sole author, he covered the NSA's use of contractors and their access to classified information.[107]

Aside from the Pulitzer, Ackerman, Greenwald, Ball, as well as Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Dominic Rushe, and Julian Borger, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors medal for investigative journalism.[108] Additionally, Greenwald, Poitras, MacAskill, Ball, and Ackerman also went on to win the 2014 Scripps Howard Foundation Roy W. Howard Award for Public Service Reporting.[109]

Starting in 2015, Ackerman attached a statement to his email signature, warning that unilateral declarations of anonymity from potential sources would not be honored.[110] In an interview with CNN's Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources, Ackerman explained that a reporter should only grant anonymity following a discussion with the source regarding the reasons for anonymity.[111]

The Daily Beast[]

Ackerman joined The Daily Beast as a senior national security correspondent in May 2017, reuniting with his former editor from Wired, Noah Shachtman.[112] In addition to his usual beat, Ackerman's coverage also included homeland security, counterterrorism, and intelligence.[113] Speaking with James Warren of the Poynter Institute, Ackerman explained that he and Shachtman aim to break news rather than rewrite stories published by other news sources.[114]

On April 30, 2021, he announced his departure and became a contributing editor for the publication.[115]

Awards[]

The Guardian

Wired

  • 2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media[119]

The Daily Targum

Podcasts[]

In 2019, Ackerman co-hosted, with Laura Hudson, the “Citadel Dropouts,” a Wired podcast about the final season of Game of Thrones.[121] Since 2018, he has appeared on the Graphic Policy podcast, discussing comics, films, and miniseries.[122][123][124][125][126]

Works[]

  • Ackerman, Spencer (August 10, 2021), Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Viking, ISBN 9781984879776
  • Nance, Malcolm; Ackerman, Spencer (foreword) (October 10, 2016), The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, Skyhorse Publishing, p. 216, ISBN 9781510723320

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