Jonathan Blitzer | |
|---|---|
 Blitzer in 2021 | |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University |
Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist and writer. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker.[1] He has received a National Award for Education Reporting, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation. He was a finalist three times for a Livingston Award, and was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America.[2][3] In 2018, he received the Media Leadership Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
His 2024 book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis chronicled the involvement of migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America in the ongoing Mexico–United States border crisis.[4][5][6]
Blitzer's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and The Nation.[7]
- ^ "Jonathan Blitzer GRANTEE". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". New America. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ Gross, Terry. "'New Yorker' writer traces the current U.S. border crisis back to the Cold War". No. Fresh Air. National Public Radio. National Public Radio. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
- ^ Morton Pengra, Lilah. "In new book, Jonathan Blitzer explains tangled web of U.S. politics and policy that helped create the border crisis". No. 2/14. The South Dakota Standard. The South Dakota Standard. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
- ^ Aikins, Matthieu (February 5, 2024). "A New Book Reckons With the Border Crisis, in all Its Complexity". The New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
- ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". French-American Foundation. Retrieved February 15, 2024.