Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff
Isikoff in October 2007
Born	1952 (age 64–65) Syosset, New York
Alma mater	Washington University (A.B., 1974) Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University (M.A., 1976)
Occupation	investigative journalist
Spouse(s)	Lisa Stein (?–?) Mary Ann Akers (m. 2007)

Michael Isikoff (pronounced Issickoff, born 1952) is an American investigative journalist, formerly with the United States magazine Newsweek. He joined Newsweek as an investigative correspondent in June 1994, and has written extensively on the U.S. government's War on Terrorism, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, campaign finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues.

On July 1, 2010, Isikoff became the national investigative correspondent for NBC News, a position which he resigned in April, 2014, citing the network's move in a direction that left him with "fewer opportunities" for his work.

Isikoff 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 Drudge Report the following morning. His book on the subject, Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Book of the Month Club.

In January 2007, Isikoff married former Washington, DC political gossip columnist Mary Ann Akers, who wrote "The Sleuth" for washingtonpost.com.

Isikoff received his A.B. from Washington University in 1974, with a junior-year-abroad at the University of Durham, England, and obtained a masters from the Medill School of Journalism from Northwestern University in 1976. He graduated from Syosset High School on Long Island in 1970. Isikoff is the co-author, with The Nation reporter David Corn, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, a 2006 book about the selling of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to the US public and the ensuing Plame scandal. The book was a New York Times best-seller.