Carlos Lozada (journalist)

Carlos Eduardo Lozada[1] (born 1971) is a Peruvian-American journalist and author. He joined The New York Times[2] as an opinion columnist in 2022 after a 17-year career as senior editor and book critic at The Washington Post. He won[3] the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2019 and was a finalist for the prize in 2018.[4] The Pulitzer Board cited his "trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience." He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing[5] and the Kukula Award for excellence in nonfiction book reviewing.[6] Lozada was an adjunct professor of political science and journalism with the University of Notre Dame's Washington program, teaching from 2009 to 2021. He is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era,[7] published in 2020, and The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, published in 2024, both with Simon & Schuster.

Carlos Lozada
Lozada in 2024
Born
Carlos Eduardo Francisco Lozada Rodriguez Pastor

(1971-11-01) November 1, 1971 (age 53)
EducationUniversity of Notre Dame (BA)
Princeton University (MPA)
OccupationJournalist
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Criticism (2019)
National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (2015)

Early life

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Lozada was born in Lima, Peru, and migrated to California with his family as a child. He later returned to Peru, where he lived until completing high school.[8] He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1993.[9] In 1997, he graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University with a master's degree in public administration.[10] After graduation, Lozada worked as an economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.[9] He is married and has 3 children. He is the nephew of businessman and politician Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor Sr. and cousin of billionaire businessman Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor.

Career

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In 1999, Lozada became an associate editor of Foreign Policy in Washington D.C., eventually becoming the magazine's managing editor.[8] Lozada was a 2004–2005 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University in New York.[9] He joined the staff of The Washington Post in 2005 and served as economics editor, national security editor and Outlook editor. He became the paper's nonfiction book critic in 2015.[9] At The New York Times, he is an opinion columnist and cohost of the weekly "Matter of Opinion" podcast.

Lozada joined the University of Notre Dame Faculty in 2009 as an adjunct professor for the Washington Program,[11] and taught a seminar on American political journalism. He was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board in November 2019.[12] He has been a visiting scholar[13] at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a practitioner in residence[14] at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. In 2024, he was appointed a visiting professor of the practice for public discourse at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.[15]

In 2021, Lozada was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award.[16][17]

In 2024, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[18]

References

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  1. ^ Carlos Eduardo Francisco Lozada Rodriguez Pastor. "Peru, Lima, Civil Registration, 1874-1996". FamilySearch. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  2. ^ "Carlos Lozada Joins The Times As Opinion Columnist". 2022-08-22. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  3. ^ "2019 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism: Criticism - Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post". 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  4. ^ "Finalist: Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post". www.pulitzer.org. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  5. ^ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". bookcritics.org. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing". The Washington Post.
  7. ^ Lozada, Carlos (6 October 2020). What were we thinking : a brief intellectual history of the Trump era (First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-9821-4562-0. OCLC 1197751331.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ a b "C-SPAN Transcript Viewer". www.c-span.org. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  9. ^ a b c d "C-LinkedIn Profile". Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  10. ^ Tomlinson, Brett (1 August 2018). "PAWcast: Carlos Lozada *97 of The Washington Post". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Carlos Lozada // Washington Program // University of Notre Dame". Washington Program. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  12. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes". Retrieved Apr 13, 2020.
  13. ^ "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace".
  14. ^ "Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame".
  15. ^ Walton, Laura Moran (2024-07-24). "Carlos Lozada '93 joins Institute for Ethics and the Common Good as Visiting Professor of the Practice for Public Discourse". Ethics and the Common Good. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  16. ^ "Carlos Lozada". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
  17. ^ "Carlos Lozada Joins The Times As Opinion Columnist". The New York Times Company. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
  18. ^ "Honoring Excellence, Inviting Involvement: 2024 Member Announcement | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
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