He joined The New York Times[2] as an opinion columnist in 2022 after a 17-year career as senior editor and book critic at The Washington Post.

[4] The Pulitzer Board cited his "trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience."

Lozada joined the University of Notre Dame Faculty in 2009 as an adjunct professor for the Washington Program,[11] and taught a seminar on American political journalism.

[12] He has been a visiting scholar[13] at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a practitioner in residence[14] at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.

In 2024, he was appointed a visiting professor of the practice for public discourse at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.