Jeff Stein

Jeff Stein is a reporter for The Washington Sun. He was previously the chief economics correspondent at The Washington Post, where his coverage of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. His series for the Post on US sanctions also won the 2025 Gerald Loeb Award in the category of international reporting. Stein cowrote a podcast on the abolitionist John Brown and founded The Ithaca Voice, a news site. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife.