# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carreyrou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:13.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carreyrou"
name: "John Carreyrou"
slug: "john-carreyrou"
description: "John Carreyrou is an American investigative reporter at The New York Times. Carreyrou worked for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years between 1999 and 2019 and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice and helped expose the fraudulent practices of the multibillion-dollar blood-testing company Theranos in a series of articles published in The Wall Street Journal."
tagline: "American journalist and author & Pulitzer Prize winner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Carreyrou_9-12-2019_DSC02013_(48724580882)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.14886
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JohnCarreyrou"
    handle:    "JohnCarreyrou"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9838777/"
    handle:    "nm9838777"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Джон Керрейру"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Джон Кариру"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carreyrou"
    title: "John Carreyrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "جان کری‌رو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carreyrou"
    title: "John Carreyrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carreyrou"
    title: "John Carreyrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%99_%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B9"
    title: "จอห์น แคร์รีรู"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23302792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2318166"
    title: "John Carreyrou"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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