Jonathan Blitzer

Jonathan Blitzer is an American journalist and writer. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has received a National Award for Education Reporting, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation. He was a finalist three times for a Livingston Award, and was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. In 2018, he received the Media Leadership Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
His 2024 book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis chronicled the involvement of migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America in the ongoing Mexico–United [States border crisis]. The book was named a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024.
In addition to The New Yorker, Blitzer's work has appeared in The [New York Times], The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and The Nation.