Clifford J. Levy
American journalist
Clifford J. Levy (born June 15, 1967, in New Rochelle, New York) is deputy publisher of two New York Times Company publications, the Wirecutter and The Athletic. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was considered one of the main architects of the digital transformation of The New York Times in the 2010s. In 2024, The Washington Post and CNN both tried to recruit Levy to run their newsrooms, but he ended up staying at The Times.
Levy is a graduate of New Rochelle High School and Princeton University in 1989.
New York Times
Early career
Levy joined The New York Times as a news assistant in 1990 and was promoted to reporter in 1992.
He served as chief of the Albany bureau as a political reporter, City Hall correspondent and Newark correspondent. Beginning in 2000, he was a special projects reporter for the Times' Metro desk.
In 2002, he wrote a series "Broken Homes" on the abuse of mentally ill adults in state-regulated homes.
In 2003, he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, as well as the George Polk Award.
He broke a story on New York State Medicaid fraud in 2005.
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