Jonathan Blitzer

{{Short description|American journalist}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Jonathan Blitzer

| occupation = Journalist, writer

| nationality = American

| education = Columbia University

| image = Jonathan Blitzer 2021.png

| caption = Blitzer in 2021

}}

Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist and writer. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker.{{cite web |title=Jonathan Blitzer GRANTEE |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/jonathan-blitzer |website=Pulitzer Center |access-date=February 14, 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=Jonathan Blitzer |url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/jonathan-blitzer/ |website=New America |access-date=February 14, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Jonathan Blitzer |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2206771/jonathan-blitzer/ |website=Penguin Random House |access-date=February 14, 2024}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Terry |title='New Yorker' writer traces the current U.S. border crisis back to the Cold War |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227857779/new-yorker-writer-traces-the-current-u-s-boarder-crisis-back-to-the-cold-war |access-date=February 15, 2024 |agency=National Public Radio |issue=Fresh Air |publisher=National Public Radio}}{{cite news |last1=Morton Pengra |first1=Lilah |title=In new book, Jonathan Blitzer explains tangled web of U.S. politics and policy that helped create the border crisis |url=https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/in-new-book-jonathan-blitzer-explains-the-tangled-web-of-american-politics-and-policy-that-helped-create-the-border-crisis |access-date=February 15, 2024 |agency=The South Dakota Standard |issue=2/14 |publisher=The South Dakota Standard}}{{cite news |last1=Aikins |first1=Matthieu |title=A New Book Reckons With the Border Crisis, in all Its Complexity |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/books/review/jonathan-blitzer-everyone-who-is-gone-is-here.html |access-date=February 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=February 5, 2024}} The book was named a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/books/best-books-2024.html

In addition to The New Yorker, Blitzer's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and The Nation.{{cite web |title=Jonathan Blitzer |url=https://frenchamerican.org/jonathan-blitzer/ |website=French-American Foundation |access-date=February 15, 2024}}