Ben Reiter is the author of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All, a New York Times bestseller, and the host and producer of The Edge, a documentary series that was named one of the top podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, Podcast Review, and Spotify. As a longtime senior writer for Sports Illustrated, he wrote 27 cover stories. Reiter's SI feature 'The Seeker: The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu' won the 2018 Deadline Award for Magazine Profile, and his pieces have four times been honored as notable selections in the annual The Best American Sportswriting series.
Before joining SI in 2004, Reiter worked as a research assistant for the legendary investigative journalist Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice. He is a member of the board of directors of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system. He received his bachelor's degree in History from Yale and a master's degree in International Relations from Cambridge.
