Michael Luo
Michael Luo (born 1976) is an American journalist who currently writes for the New York Times, where he is an investigative reporter.[1]
Luo was born in Pittsburgh in 1976.[2] 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.[1][2] Luo also reported for the Los Angeles Times before moving to the New York Times.[1] 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, mentally retarded African-Americans in Alabama who were in prison for killing a baby that probably never existed."[1] The story resulted in the release of two of the three, while the third remained in prison for a separate charge.[1] In 2000, Luo won a T.W. Wang Award for Excellence for journalism on Chinese-American topics.[2]
Luo joined the New York Times in September 2003 at the metropolitan desk.[1][2] 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."[1]