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{{short description|American journalist}}
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'''Nicholas Confessore''' is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning political [[correspondent]] on the National Desk of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/c/nicholas_confessore/index.html Nicholas Confessore], ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 2011.</ref>

==Early life==
Confessore grew up in [[New York City]] and attended [[Hunter College High School]]. He was a [[Political science|politics major]] at [[Princeton University]], class of 1998.  While at Princeton, he wrote for the weekly student newspaper the ''[[Nassau Weekly]]''.<ref>{{cite web
  |work=Princeton Alumni Weekly
  |url=http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_old/PAW97-98/08-0128/0128endpg.html
  |access-date=2012-01-21
  |title=Improving race relations
  |first=Nicholas |last=Confessore}}</ref>

==Career==
Confessore was previously an editor at the ''[[Washington Monthly]]''<ref>Confessore, Nicholas, [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0406.confessore.html "Paradise Glossed"], June 2004, ''[[Washington Monthly]]''. Retrieved February 2011.</ref> and a staff writer for ''[[The American Prospect]]''. He has also written for ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''[[Salon.com]]'', and other publications. At the age of 28, he won the 2003 [[Livingston Award]] for national reporting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livawards.org/winners/2003.html|title=2003 Winners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307181758/http://www.livawards.org/winners/2003.html |archive-date=2012-03-07|work=The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists|access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>

He was part of a team of reporters who covered the downfall of [[New York governor]] [[Eliot Spitzer]]. He also won the 2009 [[Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting]] and the 2008 [[Sigma Delta Chi Award]] for deadline reporting <ref>"Deadline reporting" is defined on the [http://www.spj.org/a-sdx-categories.asp Society of Professional Journalists website] as "published in the issue that directly follows the event". Retrieved August 15, 2012.</ref> from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]]<ref>[http://www.spj.org/sdxa08.asp "2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award Honorees"] Retrieved August 15, 2012.</ref> as part of the New York Times staff covering the Spitzer scandal.

He shared three [[Gerald Loeb Award]]s: the 2015 [[Gerald Loeb Award winners for Deadline and Beat Reporting|award for Beat Reporting]] for the story "Lobbying in America",<ref>{{cite web|title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2015 Gerald Loeb Award Winners|url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2015/2015-gerald-loeb-awards|website=[[UCLA Anderson School of Management]]|date=June 24, 2015|access-date=January 31, 2019}}</ref> the 2016 [[Gerald Loeb Award winners for Images, Graphics, Interactives, and Visuals|award for Images/Graphics/Interactives]] for the story "Making Data Visual",<ref name="LOEB-2016">{{cite web|title=UCLA Anderson School honors 2016 Gerald Loeb Award winners|url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-anderson-school-honors-2016-gerald-loeb-award-winners|website=[[UCLA]]|date=June 29, 2016|access-date=January 31, 2019|last=Daillak|first=Jonathan}}</ref> and the 2019 [[Gerald Loeb Award winners for Investigative|award for Investigative reporting]] for the series "Facebook, Disinformation and Privacy".<ref name=LOEB-2019>{{Cite press release |title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2019 Gerald Loeb Award Winners |date=June 28, 2019 |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2019-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300877656.html |last1=Trounson |first1=Rebecca |access-date=October 2, 2019 |website=[[PR Newswire]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{twitter|nickconfessore}}

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