Issues Affecting America: Responsible
Citizenship Fall 2008
Michael Luo has been a reporter for The New York Times since
September 2003 and is currently one of the reporters covering the
2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Luo’s previous assignments at The
New York Times have included Congress, the Baghdad bureau and the
religion beat. He has written about topics as diverse as the plight
of Iraqi Christians, the fraud and abuse plaguing New York’s
Medicaid program and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Luo was a national writer at the
Associated Press, where he wrote feature stories from around the
country. He has also worked at Newsday and the Los Angeles
Times.
In 2002, Mr. Luo won 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. As a result, two of the prisoners were freed; the third
remained in prison on a separate charge.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1976, Mr. Luo graduated from Harvard
University in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in government. He is
married and lives in New York City.
Lunch will be served, courtesy of The New York Times.
Please register online, via St. John’s Central.
Suggested Readings
On the Presidential Election
Reporting on Religion
Reporting from Iraq
View complete archive.
Michael has written or contributed to over 500 articles for the
NY Times. Please see the complete archive for more
stories.
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Date
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Time
12:15 p.m.
Location
Council Hall, Queens Campus