Tim Starks

Washington Post

Tim Starks is the author of the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter at The Washington Post. He previously served as senior editor at CyberScoop and ran Politico’s cybersecurity newsletter.

The Evansville, Indiana native has held reporting roles for CQ Roll Call, the New York Sun, and the Evansville Courier & Press. His work has also appeared in the Economist, the New Republic, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Deutsche Welle and Ring Magazine.

Tim’s writing and editing won or contributed to stories or news packages that won four journalism awards in 2022, and was a finalist in another. He won the 2009 National Press Club Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism.

Tim lives in Washington, D.C., and is a fan of boxing, the NBA, Dungeons & Dragons, sci-fi, cinema, comic books, TV, novels, fantasy basketball, his mother, his two nieces and his cat, Dr. Julius “Jules” Jonas Jonah Jameson.

Tim Starks
Tim Starks
Cybersecurity 202 Author
Washington Post