Michael Isikoff was born in 1952 in the USA. He is known for his work on War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013), Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation (2011) and Today (1952). He is married to Lisa Stein. They have one child.
In 1997, he had been prepared to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but several hours before going to print, the article was killed by top Newsweek executives. As a result, the story broke first on Matt Drudge 's website the following morning. Investigative journalist for Newsweek, June 1994 - present. When he brought the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case to his editors at the Washington Post, they refused to run the story. So he quit and joined Newsweek.
Ripped from international headlines, The Hacker Wars takes you to the front lines of the high-stakes battle over the fate of the Internet, freedom and privacy.