LeDuff was hired as a full-fledged staff member shortly before starting work on the series that won the Pulitzer in 2001.įor his contribution to the prize-winning series, LeDuff went to North Carolina and got a job at the country’s largest pork-processing plant. After the ten weeks were up, his term was extended into a six-month trial, then a three-year apprenticeship. An outstanding obituary LeDuff wrote for a friend, a Russian youth who had died after the fall of the Soviet Union, caught the attention of some key people at the New York Times, and LeDuff was offered a ten-week chance to work with the prestigious newspaper. After working a variety of jobs, LeDuff began his writing career as an intern for the Alaska Fisherman’s Journal. LeDuff held a variety of jobs before taking up journalism, and as a reporter has frequently researched his articles by immersing himself in new professions. SIDELIGHTS: Charlie LeDuff is a correspondent for the New York Times who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles about race in America. US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man, Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2006. Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts, Penguin Press (New York, NY), 2004. Star of ten-part television series Only in America star and narrator of documentary United Gates of America.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 2001, for series “How Race Is Lived in America” Meyer Berger Award, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, for writing style and stories reflecting the lives of everyday New Yorkers. Worked previously as a reporter for Alaska Fisherman’s Journal, as a middle-school teacher, baker, bartender, cannery worker, and gang counselor. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036.ĬAREER: New York Times, New York, NY, 1995-, began as reporter for metropolitan desk, became national correspondent in Los Angeles bureau. University of California, Berkeley, M.A.ĪDDRESSES: Office- New York Times, 229 W.

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