Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C.
Watch the live taping of our event with author & New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer, moderated by UBC Journalism Professor Peter Klein:
Lind Initiative Fall 2016 - Jane Mayer on Dark Money
Watch an interview by the Liu Institute for Global Issues with Jane Mayer, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of “Dark Money.” Mayer provided UBC audiences with an acute analysis of how super PACs and big donor money has shaped the 2016 U.S. election, or in the case of the GOP, how this money failed to counter the rise of Trump:
Jane Mayer on Money in U.S. Politics - UBC's Lind Initiative
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