Lukas Alpert

About

I am a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with more than two decades experience in media. I have covered everything from crime and politics to business and war. I've been a metro street reporter, tabloid muckraker, Moscow correspondent and a media reporter. In 2019, I was part of a Wall Street Journal team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for uncovering President Trump’s secret hush-money payoffs to women who claimed to have had affairs with him. The series led to the first criminal prosecution of a former-U.S. president in history. I have previously worked for the New York Daily News, New York Post and The Associated Press. I have also written magazine pieces for Playboy and Maxim. I am proficient in both Russian and Mandarin. While working in Russia, I wrote a book on Kremlin propaganda techniques titled: "Kremlin Speak: Inside Putin's Propaganda Factory" (Tatra Press - 2014).