Nicholas Confessore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political correspondent on the National Desk of The New York Times.
[1] Confessore grew up in New York City and attended Hunter College High School.
[2] Confessore was previously an editor at the Washington Monthly[3] and a staff writer for The American Prospect.
[4] He was part of a team of reporters who covered the downfall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
He also won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award for deadline reporting [5] from the Society of Professional Journalists[6] as part of the New York Times staff covering the Spitzer scandal.