Jonathan Blitzer

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]} The book was named a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024. ^[7]

In addition to The New Yorker, Blitzer's work has appeared in The New York Times , The Atlantic , The Oxford American , and The Nation . ^[8]

References

1. "Jonathan Blitzer GRANTEE". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
2. "Jonathan Blitzer". New America. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
3. "Jonathan Blitzer". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 14, 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 February 15, 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 February 15, 2024.
6. 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.
7. "The 10 Best Books of 2024". The New York Times. December 3, 2024.
8. "Jonathan Blitzer". French-American Foundation. Retrieved February 15, 2024.