David Leonhardt
| David Leonhardt | |
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Leonhardt in 2012
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| Born |
January 1, 1973 New York, New York |
| Residence | Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S., Applied Mathematics (1994) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalist, columnist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Known for | Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, 2011; Washington bureau chief, The New York Times (2011—2013) |
| Home town | New York, New York |
| Title | Op-ed columnist |
| Website | www.nytimes.com/by/david-leonhardt |
David Leonhardt (born January 1, 1973) is an American journalist and columnist writing from a liberal progressive perspective. His column appears in The New York Times on Tuesdays, and he also writes a daily e-mail newsletter, Opinion Today.
Leonhardt was previously the head of an internal strategy group, known as the 2020 group, that made recommendations to Times executives in January 2017 about changing the newsroom and the news report in response to the rise of digital media. Prior to that, he was the managing editor of The Upshot, a then-new Times venture that focusing on politics, policy, and economics, with an emphasis on data and graphics. Before The Upshot, he was the paper's Washington bureau chief and an economics columnist. He joined The Times in 1999 and wrote the "Economics Scene" column, and for the Times Sunday Magazine. He is the author of a short e-book published by The Times in February 2013: Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth. Before coming to The Times, he wrote for Business Week and The Washington Post.
In April 2011 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for his graceful penetration of America’s complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform".
Born in New York, Leonhardt graduated from Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York in 1990, and then continued his studies at Yale University, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics. At Yale, Leonhardt served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News.
In 1998, he won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the Business Journalism category from the Chicago Headline Club for a Business Week story he wrote about problems at McDonald's. Leonhardt has been writing about economics for The Times since 2000. In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, "Keeping Score," which ran on Sundays. He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States. His economics column, "Economic Scene," appeared on Wednesdays from 2006 until 2011.
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