Ken Becker is the author of The Expat Files, a memoir of his fifty years in journalism – and seventy-plus years of life – in the United States and Canada.
He began his career as a copyboy at the New York Times and worked as a reporter and/or editor for United Press International, the Canadian Press, the Toronto Sun, the Livermore (California) Herald & News and the Waterville (Maine) Morning Sentinel.
He was also a regular contributor to Maclean’s magazine, a writer and producer for CBC News, and a journalism teacher at Humber College in Toronto.
His op-ed pieces have been published in the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.
In the summer of  2015, Ken began writing media criticism in thebeckerfiles and has continued to offer columns on a wide variety of subjects.​
He is working on another book, a novel.

Born and raised in New York, Ken has lived in San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Bern, Switzerland, and small towns in northern California, Maine, and Northern Ontario.
He has traveled throughout every province in Canada, 47 of the 50 U.S. states, plus the Caribbean, Europe and Australia.