David Leonhardt — Managing Editor at The New York Times

Mr. David Leonhardt serves as Managing Editor at The New York Times Company and served as its Chief of Washington Bureau since September 06, 2011. Mr. Leonhardt writes Economic Scene, a weekly economics column for The Times's business section. The column explores both the broad American economy and the economics of everyday life. He also serves as a Staff Writer for The New York Times Magazine and contributes to the Economix blog. He joined The New York Times in September 1999 as a New York-based business reporter writing about the economy and its effects on ordinary Americans. In 2006, he began writing a column and in 2008, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he continued the column and played the lead role in starting up The Times's Economix blog. Prior to joining The Times in 1999, he worked for Business Week magazine and The Washington Post. In 2011, Mr. Leonhardt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a Times Magazine article, Obamanomics. He was a winner of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism contest for his Times column in 2007 and 2009 and he was part of a team of Times reporters whose coverage of corporate scandals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.