Michael Luo
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1976)}}
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| native_name = 羅明瀚
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}}
| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| alma_mater = Harvard University (BA)
| occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|writer|editor}}
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| awards = George Polk Award (2002)
Livingston Award (2002)
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Michael M. Luo ({{Lang-zh|t=羅明瀚}}; born 1976){{cite web|url=https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/3572795|title=《紐時》華裔編輯被罵「滾回中國」 網上發起反歧視運動|author=鉅亨網|work=Anue|date=October 14, 2016|accessdate=November 14, 2020|language=zh-tw}} is an American journalist and current editor of The New Yorker and its website, {{Not a typo|newyorker.com}}.{{cite web|last1=Mullin|first1=Benjamin|title=Michael Luo named editor of The New Yorker's website|url=http://www.poynter.org/2017/michael-luo-named-editor-of-newyorker-com/448038/|website=Poynter|date=6 February 2017|accessdate=24 August 2017}} He previously wrote for The New York Times as an investigative reporter."[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/michael_luo/index.html Michael Luo]." The New York Times.
Early life and education
Luo was born to a Taiwanese American family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1976.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015031715/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Michael_Luo.html|archivedate=October 15, 2009|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Michael_Luo.html|title=Ask a Reporter: Michael Luo: Metropolitan Reporter, Transportation|date=2004|work=The New York Times|accessdate=July 1, 2020|url-status=live}} His parents were Taiwanese waishengren who had fled mainland China during the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan and settled in Taiwan before moving to the United States to pursue graduate studies.{{Cite news |last1=Luo |first1=Michael |date=10 October 2016 |title=An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/nyregion/to-the-woman-who-told-my-family-to-go-back-to-china.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times}} Luo spent his early childhood in upstate New York then attended high school in Michigan.{{Cite web |last=Beaujon |first=Andrew |date=2014-02-10 |title=Michael Luo leaves reporting, becomes deputy metro editor at NYT |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/michael-luo-leaves-reporting-becomes-deputy-metro-editor-at-nyt/ |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=Poynter |language=en-US}} He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1998, where he wrote for The Harvard Crimson.{{Cite web |title=Michael M. Luo {{!}} Writer Page {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/530/Michael_M._Luo/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}
Career
He was a writer for two years for the Associated Press, where he wrote narrative feature stories, and also worked at Newsday, where he was a police reporter on Long Island. Luo also reported for the Los Angeles Times before moving to The New York Times. In 2002, Luo received a George Polk Award for Criminal Justice Reporting and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists "for a series of articles on three poor, [disabled] African-Americans in Alabama who were in prison for killing a baby that probably never existed." The story resulted in the release of two of the three, while the third remained in prison for a separate charge. In 2000, Luo won a T.W. Wang Award for Excellence for journalism on Chinese-American topics.
Luo joined The New York Times in September 2003 at the metropolitan desk. According to the Times, Luo "has written about economics and the recession as a national correspondent; covered the 2008 presidential campaign and the 2010 midterm elections; and done stints in Washington and in the Baghdad bureau." Luo wrote a viral piece about a woman who accosted him for being a Chinese American in October 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/nyregion/to-the-woman-who-told-my-family-to-go-back-to-china.html?mcubz=0&_r=0|title = An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 10 October 2016|last1 = Luo|first1 = Michael}}
He has since gone to edit investigations at The New Yorker and was eventually promoted to manage its entire digital presence.
On April 29, 2025, Luo released a debut nonfiction book, titled Strangers in the Land, which tackles the history of the Chinese in America.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-luo/strangers-in-the-land/ |title=STRANGERS IN THE LAND {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{twitter|michaelluo}}
- [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/michael-luo Articles by Michael Luo] from The New Yorker
- [https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-luo Articles by Michael Luo] from The New York Times
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Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:American male journalists
Category:American investigative journalists
Category:George Polk Award recipients
Category:The New York Times journalists
Category:Writers from Pittsburgh
Category:Journalists from Pittsburgh
Category:American journalists of Chinese descent