Academic Lecture Series: Michael Luo, Reporting On The 2008 Presidential Election: An Insider’s View - Queens Campus

Issues Affecting America: Responsible Citizenship Fall 2008

Michael Luo has been a reporter for The New York Times since September 2003 and is currently one of the reporters covering the 2008 presidential campaign. Mr. Luo’s previous assignments at The New York Times have included Congress, the Baghdad bureau and the religion beat. He has written about topics as diverse as the plight of Iraqi Christians, the fraud and abuse plaguing New York’s Medicaid program and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Before joining The Times, Mr. Luo was a national writer at the Associated Press, where he wrote feature stories from around the country. He has also worked at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times.

In 2002, Mr. Luo won a George Polk Award for criminal justice reporting and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of articles on three poor, mentally retarded African Americans in Alabama who were in prison for killing a baby that probably never existed. As a result, two of the prisoners were freed; the third remained in prison on a separate charge.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1976, Mr. Luo graduated from Harvard University in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in government. He is married and lives in New York City.

Lunch will be served, courtesy of The New York Times.
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Suggested Readings
On the Presidential Election

• Straining to Reach Money Goal, Obama Presses Donors
• Convention Limelight Shines on a Big Donor
• Investigators Are Looking at Governor About Firing
• Top Black Donors See Obama’s Rise as Their Own
• Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
• Big Money Still Has Prominent Seat at Parties’ Conventions
• McCain to Give Back $50,000 Under Scrutiny
• Big Donors, Too, Have Seats at Obama Fund-Raising Table
• WORDS; On Their Reading Tables

Reporting on Religion

• God ’08: Whose, and How Much, Will Voters Accept?
• Edwards, Clinton and Obama Describe Journeys of Faith
• Emphasis Shifts for New Breed of Evangelicals
• Evangelicals Debate the Meaning of 'Evangelical'

Reporting from Iraq

• As War Ravages Baghdad, City’s Ambulance Workers Must Pick Up the Pieces
• U.S. Offers Reward for Help in Finding Missing Soldier
• On Dangerous Footing in Iraq, Where Dancing Is a Courageous Act
• A TV Comedy Turns an Unconventional Weapon on Iraq’s High and Mighty: Fake News
• Iraq’s Christians Flee as Extremist Threat Worsens

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Michael has written or contributed to over 500 articles for the NY Times.  Please see the complete archive for more stories.

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Date
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Time
12:15 p.m.

Location
Council Hall, Queens Campus