Andrea Bernstein is a Peabody and duPont-Columbia award-winning journalist, author, and co-host of the acclaimed podcasts Will Be Wild, Trump, Inc., We Don’t Talk About Leonard, and The Law According to Trump. Her book American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power was a New York Times bestseller and NPR book of the year.  Bernstein has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and ProPublica.

Bernstein’s work has led to multiple investigations, indictments, convictions, and government reforms. A 30-year veteran of public radio, she most recently covered five Trump trials in New York for NPR and has been a frequent guest on PBS NewsHour and CNN’s OutFront. 

Bernstein is a 2025 Ferris Professor in Journalism at Princeton University and was previously the 2024 Presidential Fellow at Bennington College, the Jack Newfield Professor of Investigative journalism at Hunter College, and a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She has also taught at City College in New York. 

Bernstein most recently hosted Slate’s The Law According to Trump and reported and co-hosted the duPont-Columbia award-winning ProPublica/OnThe Media podcast We Don’t Talk About Leonard, a three-part series and accompanying article about the most influential conservative activist of the last 30 years, Leonard Leo. She previously co-hosted the acclaimed podcast Will Be Wild with Ilya Marritz, an eight-part audio-documentary about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Will Be Wild reached the number one spot on Apple podcasts, was named a New Yorker top ten podcast of 2022, and was selected by Pushkin Industries for its collection of “Best Audio Storytelling of 2022.”

From 2018 to 2021, Bernstein and Marritz co-hosted Trump, Inc., a collaboration between ProPublica and WNYC Studios. The podcast was recognized with a duPont-Columbia Award and the Public Radio News Director Award for Best Collaboration. It was a finalist for the National Magazine and Loeb awards. 

Bernstein was previously a senior editor at WNYC/New York Public Radio, where she edited and reported stories about government, politics, transportation, crime, and the environment. She won over fifty awards for her work at WNYC.