Work
Becker worked for the St. Petersburg Times, the Concord Monitor and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour before starting at the Washington Post in 2000. There she covered local and state politics before joining the investigative projects team. Since 2007, she has worked at The New York Times as an investigative reporter, where she has written about diverse topics ranging from the presidential elections to the 2008 financial meltdown, the British phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's media empire, American efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear program, Hezbollah's clandestine financing operations, the Penn State sex abuse scandal, and the Obama administration's policies on drone warfare with Times colleague Scott Shane.
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