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 wrote as an investigative reporter.[3]
Michael Luo | |
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| 羅明瀚 | |
 Luo in 2018 | |
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupations |
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| Chinese name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 羅明瀚[1] |
| Simplified Chinese | 罗明瀚 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Luó Mínghàn |
Early life and education
editLuo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1976 to a Taiwanese family.[4] His parents had fled mainland China before the 1949 Chinese revolution 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
editHe 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Mullin, Benjamin (6 February 2017). "Michael Luo named editor of The New Yorker's website". Poynter. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Michael Luo." The New York Times.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Luo, Michael (10 October 2016). "An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China". The New York Times.
- ^ Beaujon, Andrew (2014-02-10). "Michael Luo leaves reporting, becomes deputy metro editor at NYT". Poynter. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
- ^ Luo, Michael (10 October 2016). "An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China". The New York Times.