Jonathanmkatz : Jonathan Myerson Katz

Jonathan Myerson Katz

Jonathan M. Katz is a freelance journalist and author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. A regular New York Times contributor, his work has also been featured in the New Republic, Slate, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico Magazine, and The New Yorker online, and other publications, with grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Katz was the Associated Press chief correspondent in Haiti when he provided the first international alert of the deadliest earthquake ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. That fall he broke the story that United Nations peacekeepers caused—and were covering up their role in—a cholera epidemic that has since killed at least 10,000 people more. He has regularly been a guest on radio and television including NPR, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, NBC News, CBSN, ABC World News, Fox News, and the Tavis Smiley Show. Past speaking appearances include the Clinton School of Public Service, Harvard University and the Nieman Center for Journalism, Northwestern University, Duke University, Columbia University, Dartmouth University, Miami Book Fair International, Inter-American Defense College, and the University of Iowa's College of Public Health. Awards include the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award for the year's best book on international affairs.