Jonathan Blitzer Explained

Jonathan Blitzer
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]}

Blitzer's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and The Nation.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jonathan Blitzer GRANTEE . Pulitzer Center . February 14, 2024.
2. Web site: Jonathan Blitzer . New America . February 14, 2024.
3. Web site: Jonathan Blitzer . Penguin Random House . February 14, 2024.
4. News: Gross . Terry . 'New Yorker' writer traces the current U.S. border crisis back to the Cold War . February 15, 2024 . National Public Radio . Fresh Air . National Public Radio.
5. News: Morton Pengra . Lilah . In new book, Jonathan Blitzer explains tangled web of U.S. politics and policy that helped create the border crisis . February 15, 2024 . The South Dakota Standard . 2/14 . The South Dakota Standard.
6. News: Aikins . Matthieu . A New Book Reckons With the Border Crisis, in all Its Complexity . February 15, 2024 . The New York Times . February 5, 2024.
7. Web site: Jonathan Blitzer . French-American Foundation . February 15, 2024.