John Shiffman is a Reuters investigative reporter and a New York Times best-selling author.  ​With colleagues, he is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and has won the Gerald Loeb Award, the Thurgood Marshall Award, the Hillman Prize, the Overseas Press Club Award and the Shadid Award for Ethics.  Previously, he was a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Tennessean and The News-Press. His stories have led to the elimination of government surveillance and corporate welfare programs, and have spurred reforms to aid the most vulnerable members of society, including new mothers addicted to opioids and people too poor to bury family members with dignity.

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He has written three books:​  Hold The Line, co-authored with former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, reached #6 on the NYT non-fiction best-seller list.   Operation Shakespeare, about an undercover U.S. Homeland Security sting against Iran, appeared on the NYT espionage best-seller list.  ​​Priceless, with FBI Art Crime Team founder Robert K. Wittman, was a NYT non-fiction best-seller and published in eleven languages.

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email: john.shiffman@reuters.com