Justin Scheck
Journalist, The New York Times
With a career spanning over two decades, Justin Scheck is a journalist at The New York Times, where he mainly works on stories involving the movement of money across borders.
His first reporting job was at the Calaveras Enterprise in the Sierra Nevada foothills, before working at small newspapers in California. He moved to The Wall Street Journal in 2007, where he worked for the next 15 years, covering areas including tech, animals, oil, mining, and Saudi Arabia. During his time at The Wall Street Journal he was based in San Francisco, London, and New York, spending most of his last decade there focused on deeply reported international stories.
Over the past 10 years Scheck has written about farming in Sudan, oil drilling in New Zealand, the drug trade between India and West Africa, and arms dealing in Eastern Europe. He shared a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for coverage of Gaza, and won another Polk – and was a Pulitzer finalist – for stories on Amazon.
He is the co-author of Blood and Oil, a book about the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
