from Johns Hopkins University, where she was elected to the prestigious honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and M.A.

She was editor-in-chief of Defense Technology International, a monthly magazine published by the McGraw Hill Aviation Week Group.

She has written on science and technology policy for periodicals such as Slate, the Financial Times and the Washington Post Magazine.

[5] Weinberger won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[6] in 2011 to research and write about how the science of Facebook is changing modern warfare.

In November 2014, Weinberger became national security editor of The Intercept to head its investigative reporting on intelligence, military affairs, government surveillance, and the Edward Snowden archive.