Jonathan Myerson Katz (born 1980) is an American journalist and author known for his reporting on the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the role of the United Nations in the ensuing cholera outbreak.
[5] Katz began working as a reporter while in graduate school at Medill; his assignments included covering the Pentagon for Lee Enterprises at the start of the Iraq War.
The following year, he joined the AP's Washington Bureau, where he reported that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (then the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination[6]) had sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation immediately before the price dropped.
His major stories for the AP during this time included articles on the 2008 food crisis and riots,[8][9] the 2008 Pétion-Ville school collapse, election fraud,[10] as well as hurricanes and tropical storms ravaging the country.
Among the pressures cited by observers as leading to the UN's reversal was Katz's reporting, which (according to medical journalist R. Jan Gurley) "spread almost instantly around the world, irrevocably reframing a massive health crisis and probably changing international policies for years to come".
[20][19] He has become a regular contributor to The New York Times, where he has covered topics such as U.S. police violence and the 2015 murders of Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Katz's work has also appeared in The New Republic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico, and The New Yorker website, with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, as well as The New York Times Magazine.
[25] In his December 23, 2023 edition of his newsletter, entitled The Social Network,[26] Katz provides details and options he is exploring in reaction to assertion by the platform that the policy will continue.