Robert O’Harrow Jr. is an award-winning reporter on the investigative unit at The Washington Post. His work has focused on privacy, technology, national security, law enforcement, federal contracting and the presidential election.
O’Harrow is the author of “No Place to Hide,” “Zero Day: The Threat in Cyberspace,” and "The Quartermaster," a biography of Montgomery C. Meigs. He was a contributor to the 2016 biography, "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power."
O’Harrow is a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist and winner of the Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism and the IRE award for outstanding investigative work. He studied economics and history at Virginia Tech. He lives with wife and son in Arlington, Virginia.