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Michael Luo

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Michael Luo
羅明瀚
Luo in 2018
Born1976 (age 48–49)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • writer
  • editor
AwardsGeorge Polk Award (2002)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese羅明瀚
Simplified Chinese罗明瀚
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLuó Mínghàn

Michael M. Luo (Chinese: 羅明瀚; born 1976)[1] is an American journalist and current editor of The New Yorker and its website, newyorker.com.[2] He previously wrote for The New York Times as an investigative reporter.[3]

Early life and education

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Luo was born to a Taiwanese American family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1976.[4] His parents were Taiwanese waishengren who had fled mainland China during the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan and settled in Taiwan before moving to the United States to pursue graduate studies.[5] Luo spent his early childhood in upstate New York then attended high school in Michigan.[6] He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1998.

Career

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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.[7]

He has since gone to edit investigations at The New Yorker and was eventually promoted to manage its entire digital presence.

References

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  1. ^ 鉅亨網 (October 14, 2016). "《紐時》華裔編輯被罵「滾回中國」 網上發起反歧視運動". Anue (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  2. ^ Mullin, Benjamin (6 February 2017). "Michael Luo named editor of The New Yorker's website". Poynter. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Michael Luo." The New York Times.
  4. ^ a b c d "Ask a Reporter: Michael Luo: Metropolitan Reporter, Transportation". The New York Times. 2004. Archived from the original on October 15, 2009. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
  5. ^ Luo, Michael (10 October 2016). "An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Beaujon, Andrew (2014-02-10). "Michael Luo leaves reporting, becomes deputy metro editor at NYT". Poynter. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  7. ^ Luo, Michael (10 October 2016). "An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China". The New York Times.
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