An American investigative journalist with expertise on a number of global issues, reporting from post-invasion Iraq; the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing; and from post-Katrina Louisiana.

Scahill is the author of the international best-seller Blackwater:The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (winner of the George Polk Book Award). Serving as a correspondent for the U.S. radio and TV program Democracy Now! , he is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation. Scahill and colleague Amy Goodman were co-recipients of the 1998 Polk Award for their radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", which investigated the Chevron Corporation's role in the killing of two Nigerian environmental activists. Scahill's work appears frequently on Alternet, Commondreams, Counterpunch, Truthout, Antiwar.com, Huffington Post and many other independent news sites. Appearing on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS’s The NewsHour, Bill Moyers Journal, he is a frequent guest on other radio and TV programs nationwide.