David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt is a Pulitzer Prize winning NY TImes journalist who writes The Morning newsletter every weekday and also contributes to the Sunday Review section. He has worked at The Times since 1999, in a variety of reporting and editing roles. In 2011, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his columns. Leonhardt has been writing about economics for the Times since 2000. He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States. His economics column, "Economic Scene," appeared on Wednesdays from 2006 until 2011.

He joined The Times as a business reporter, later becoming a business columnist and a staff writer for The Times Magazine. He has also served as Washington bureau chief and founding editor of The Upshot section, which emphasizes data visualization and an analytical approach to news.

In 2016, he led a committee of Times journalists that recommended changes to The Times’s newsroom, to respond to the rise of digital media.

Over his Times career, he has also helped found a new sports column, Keeping Score, and an economics blog, Economix. In 2013, he wrote "Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth," a short best-selling e-book. In 2009, he won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing for the Times Magazine article “Obamanomics.”

Mr. Leonhardt studied applied mathematics at Yale.