High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jeremy Scahill (born October 18, 1974) is an American investigative advocacy journalist whose work focuses largely on the U.S. government`s use of private military companies. He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World`s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award. He also serves as a correspondent for the progressive U.S. radio and TV program Democracy Now!. Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation.