Jonathan Blitzer

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Jonathan Blitzer
Blitzer in 2021
Blitzer in 2021
OccupationJournalist, writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University

Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist, writer, and immigration expert. 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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jonathan Blitzer GRANTEE". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". New America. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  4. ^ 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 15 February 2024.
  5. ^ 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 15 February 2024.
  6. ^ Aikins, Matthieu (5 February 2024). "A New Book Reckons With the Border Crisis, in all Its Complexity". New York Times. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Blitzer". French-American Foundation. Retrieved 15 February 2024.