Dana Priest is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post and a contributor to PBS FRONTLINE where she was part of teams that won an Emmy for a two-part film about Pegasus Spyware, as well as a Peabody Award and duPont-Columbia Award for the two-part The Facebook Dilemma. She teaches courses on global censorship and disinformation, domestic and foreign extremism, national security and local news investigations. She co-founded PressUncuffed.org to promote investigations of imprisoned journalists overseas. 

Priest serves on the board of directors of The Fauquier Times and Prince Williams Times, through the non-profit Piedmont Journalism Foundation, which owns the news outlets.

She is the author of two best-selling books, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (2003) and Top Secret America (2011). Her goals are to teach students how to find things out that people don’t want them to know and to inspire the next generation of journalists to investigate the U.S. government and other powerful institutions.