
Joel Schectman
@joel_schectman
WSJ enterprise reporter - espionage, psyops, cyber and corruption. Ex-Reuters. Tell me your story. [email protected]/ DM me for signal.
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08-09-2008 22:41:54
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Congrats to three longtime journalism pals, Dustin Volz Aruna Viswanatha Drew FitzGerald on the SABEW Award for epic, history making coverage on Salt Typhoon. wsj.com/tech/cybersecu…

When I was young my dad took me to see JFK, a few years later, I read Gerald Posner masterful “Case Closed”. For decades after I puzzled over those dueling narratives, the fever dream, the nature of truth. Honored to write this for WSJ wsj.com/politics/polic…


Floored to be a finalist w Chris Bing in The Deadline Club Daniel Pearl Award for our project on the Pentagon's COVID psyop that used misinfo to stoke fear of China's vaccine during the pandemic. Feels amazing to be in the running with these heavyweights. reuters.com/investigates/s…


BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon helped spread UFO myths for a generation. When a new DoD investigation dug up the military’s role, the Air Force pushed for a coverup. With the mighty Aruna Viswanatha wsj.com/articles/WP-WS…

We started with a question: why are so many national security officials claiming the Pentagon had a secret program to reverse engineer UFOs, when the Pentagon is denying it? The answer was crazier than we thought. Part 1 of the epic saga, Joel Schectman : wsj.com/politics/natio…

Tremendous reporting from Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha on how Pentagon pranks, coverups and in some cases deliberate disinformation fed to American citizens fueled interest in UFOs. wsj.com/politics/natio…



How a band of alien believers turned the myth of reverse engineering UFOs at Lockheed into something like reality wsj.com/politics/natio… with Aruna Viswanatha



Really enjoyed this take on our UFO stories by Ross Douthat Aruna Viswanatha nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…

Very proud to win this award for our project exposing a secret Pentagon disinformation campaign that spread fear of Chinese vaccines at height of the Covid pandemic and endangered countless lives. Miss my ace partner Chris Bing reuters.com/investigates/s…


Absolutely riveted by Katie Kitamura Audition. In the best way possible - a mashup of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and mid-2000’s Murakami.