Nick Confessore | |
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| Born | Nicholas F Confessore (1976-05-17)May 17, 1976 (age 48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Website | nicholasconfessore |
Nicholas Confessore is aPulitzer Prize-winning politicalcorrespondent on the National Desk ofThe New York Times.[1]
Confessore grew up inNew York City and attendedHunter College High School. He was apolitics major atPrinceton University, class of 1998. While at Princeton, he wrote for the weekly student newspaper theNassau Weekly.[2]
Confessore was previously an editor at theWashington Monthly[3] and a staff writer forThe American Prospect. He has also written forThe New York Times Magazine,The Atlantic Monthly,Rolling Stone, theLos Angeles Times,The Boston Globe,Salon.com, and other publications. At the age of 28, he won the 2003Livingston Award for national reporting.[4]
He was part of a team of reporters who covered the downfall ofNew York governorEliot Spitzer. He also won the 2009Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and the 2008Sigma Delta Chi Award for deadline reporting[5] from theSociety of Professional Journalists[6] as part of the New York Times staff covering the Spitzer scandal.
He shared threeGerald Loeb Awards: the 2015award for Beat Reporting for the story "Lobbying in America",[7] the 2016award for Images/Graphics/Interactives for the story "Making Data Visual",[8] and the 2019award for Investigative reporting for the series "Facebook, Disinformation and Privacy".[9]
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