Louis Uchitelle is a journalist and author. He has worked for the New York Times since 1980, where he writes about business and economics. He was the lead reporter for the series The Downsizing of America, which won a George Polk Award in 1996.

Uchitelle joined The Times in 1980 from the Associated Press

Associated Press

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, where he had been a reporter, editor, foreign correspondent in Latin America and a news executive.

From 1967 to 1973 he was bureau chief in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, reporting such stories as the rise and fall of the Tupamaro urban guerrillas in neighboring Uruguay, the Argentine guerrilla movement, the numerous economic issues and trends in Latin America's southern cone countries, the return of Juan Domingo Perón and the election of a Peronist government in 1973.

From 1964 to 1967 he was the AP's correspondent and bureau chief in San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, with responsibility for the Caribbean. His reporting included heavy emphasis on economics, at a time when the islands were trying to form an economic union. He played a lead role in AP's coverage of the U.S. military intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965.

Uchitelle began in journalism as a general assignment reporter on The Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Daily Argus. He grew up in Great Neck, New York

Great Neck, New York

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 and received a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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He has taught news and feature writing at Columbia University. In March 2006 Knopf published his book, The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences. He lives in New York City.

Recently, Uchitelle moderated a "Times Talk" panel discussion with John Edwards

John Edwards

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...

, Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich

-Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."...

, Stephen Moore and Katherine Newman entitled "American Middle Class: At Risk?"

External links

• Column archive at The New York Times
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