Michael Luo | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Harvard University (B.A.) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Writer |
| Chinese name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 羅明瀚[1] |
| Simplified Chinese | 罗明瀚 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Luó Mínghàn |
Michael M. Luo (born 1976) is an American journalist and current editor of newyorker.com.[2] He previously wrote for The New York Times, where he was an investigative reporter.[3]
Luo was born in Pittsburgh in 1976.[4] His parents are immigrants from Taiwan.[5] He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1998.
He was a writer for two years for the Associated Press, where he wrote narrative feature stories, and also worked at Newsday, where he was a police reporter on Long Island.[3][4] Luo also reported for the Los Angeles Times before moving to The New York Times.[3] In 2002, Luo received a George Polk Award for Criminal Justice Reporting and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists "for a series of articles on three poor, [disabled] African-Americans in Alabama who were in prison for killing a baby that probably never existed."[3] The story resulted in the release of two of the three, while the third remained in prison for a separate charge.[3] In 2000, Luo won a T.W. Wang Award for Excellence for journalism on Chinese-American topics.[4]
Luo joined The New York Times in September 2003 at the metropolitan desk.[3][4] According to the Times, Luo "has written about economics and the recession as a national correspondent; covered the 2008 presidential campaign and the 2010 midterm elections; and done stints in Washington and in the Baghdad bureau."[3] Luo wrote a viral piece about a woman who accosted him for being a Chinese American in October 2016.[6]
He has since gone to edit investigations at the New Yorker and was eventually promoted to manage its entire digital presence.