Jake Halpern

Jake Halpern received a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for “Welcome to the New World,” a twenty-part series in the Times. He is adapting the series into a book.

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The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist

a reporter at large · January 14, 2019

Jake Halpern on the skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man and who has described robbery as an act of imagination.

The Underground Railroad for Refugees

letter from buffalo · March 13, 2017

Jake Halpern on a safe house in Buffalo where asylum seekers from around the world prepare to flee the U.S. for Canada.

The Secret of the Temple

a reporter at large · April 30, 2012

The discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars shakes southern India.