Annie Jacobsen is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She writes a regular column called Back Story which can be read at LosAngelesTimes.com.
A widely published investigative journalist and book author, Jacobsen began her professional writing career as a business and finance journalist. In June 2004, she was unwittingly involved in an airplane incident which many federal agents believe was a dry run for a terrorist attack. Ms. Jacobsen wrote an investigative piece about this flight, Northwest Flight 327, shortly after the plane landed. The article became an Internet phenomenon. When Jacobsen was on CNN discussing the flight, she was told 15 million people had read her article, which has been reprinted around the world and as far away as China. Her book on the subject, Terror in The Skies, Why 9/11 Could Happen Again (Spence Publishing, 2005), continues to be debated on talk radio across the country.
The United States Government (Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General) spent twenty-two months investigating what happened on Northwest Flight 327. In May of 2006, the investigation was completed but the findings were immediately classified. In May of 2007, owing to an outpouring of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, a large portion of the report was finally released (parts remain redacted), wholly verifying Jacobsen's account of the flight. The report also revealed that the investigation was ordered by the White House Security Council after a senior White House official read Ms. Jacobsen's reporting.
Jacobsen has been a guest on 600+ radio shows –- from National Public Radio to The Savage Nation. Her TV appearances include ABC, CNN and MSNBC and FOX News where she has debated diplomats, federal agents and other journalists about terrorism in the aviation domain (her favorites: the Ambassador of Syria and Pat Buchanan). Articles about Ms. Jacobsen and her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The London Telegraph, Foreign Policy Magazine and others.
Jacobsen grew up in Connecticut, went to high school at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and graduated from Princeton University. At Princeton University, she wrote under the tutelage of Joyce Carol Oates and seved as captain of the Princeton Womens Ice Hockey Team. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their children.
She is currently writing a book for Little Brown & Company, "The Wizards of Groom Lake: The Uncensored History of Area 51."
Literary agent: Hornfischer Literary Management, Jim Hornfischer
Film & TV agent: Intellectual Property Group, Jerry Kalajian
Archive of Annie Jacobsen articles CLICK HERE
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