Jeff Horwitz joins Reuters in the new role of Tech Investigations Reporter

Jeff Horwitz, the award-winning journalist and winner of the OPC Foundation Fred Wiegold Scholarship in 2009, is joining Reuters in the new role of tech investigations reporter. Most recently he was with the Wall Street Journal where he led the reporting on the Facebook Files, a 2021 series that exposed how Meta was aware that its social-media platforms were harming teenage girls and other users but failed to take action. The series won a George Polk Award and a Gerald Loeb Award. Last year, Jeff shared a Loeb Award for “The Dark Side of Meta’s Algorithms,” a series that revealed how Instagram and Facebook connected networks of pedophiles and served them disturbing content. He will be based in San Francisco.  Before WSJ, Jeff was a financial and enterprise reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, where he broke stories about how former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had secretly worked to advance Russian interests.