David Leonhardt
New York Times journalist and author
David Leonhardt is a New York Times journalist who writes the paper's daily newsletter The Morning. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary and wrote Ours Was the Shining Future.
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American Born 1973 in Manhattan, United States
About David Leonhardt
David Leonhardt is an American journalist who joined The New York Times in 1999. Over the years he has been a magazine writer, an economics columnist, Washington bureau chief and Op-Ed columnist, and he was an editor of The Upshot, a Times section on politics, policy and economics. He also co-hosted the podcast The Argument and led an internal strategy group that advised Times leaders on the newsroom's digital future. Before the Times, he wrote for Business Week and The Washington Post. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2011. His book Ours Was the Shining Future was published by Random House in 2023.