Nicholas Confessore
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Nicholas Confessore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political correspondent on the National Desk of The New York Times.<ref>Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times. Retrieved February 2011.</ref>
Early lifeEdit
Confessore grew up in New York City and attended Hunter College High School. He was a politics major at Princeton University, class of 1998. While at Princeton, he wrote for the weekly student newspaper the Nassau Weekly.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
Confessore was previously an editor at the Washington Monthly<ref>Confessore, Nicholas, "Paradise Glossed", June 2004, Washington Monthly. Retrieved February 2011.</ref> and a staff writer for The American Prospect. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and other publications. At the age of 28, he won the 2003 Livingston Award for national reporting.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He was part of a team of reporters who covered the downfall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer. He also won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award for deadline reporting <ref>"Deadline reporting" is defined on the Society of Professional Journalists website as "published in the issue that directly follows the event". Retrieved August 15, 2012.</ref> from the Society of Professional Journalists<ref>"2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award Honorees" Retrieved August 15, 2012.</ref> as part of the New York Times staff covering the Spitzer scandal.
He shared three Gerald Loeb Awards: the 2015 award for Beat Reporting for the story "Lobbying in America",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the 2016 award for Images/Graphics/Interactives for the story "Making Data Visual",<ref name="LOEB-2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the 2019 award for Investigative reporting for the series "Facebook, Disinformation and Privacy".<ref name=LOEB-2019>Template:Cite press release</ref>
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