# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-risen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:07.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-risen"
name: "James Risen"
slug: "james-risen"
description: "James Risen is an American journalist for The Intercept. He previously worked for The New York Times and before that for Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion. Risen is a Pulitzer Prize winner."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_risen_5213069.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.22
  momentum:             0.2503477051460361
  historical:           6.359865333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جیمز ریزن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چيمس ريسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen"
    title: "James Risen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen"
    title: "James Risen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز رایزن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen"
    title: "James Risen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen"
    title: "James Risen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump