Eric Lichtblau was born on 1965 and is an American journalist, reporting for The New York Times in the Washington bureau, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Yorker, and the CNN network's investigative news unit.
10 Facts About Eric Lichtblau
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Eric Lichtblau has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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Eric Lichtblau received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with the New York Times for his reporting on warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency.
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Eric Lichtblau was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer in 2017 for coverage of Russia and the Trump campaign.
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Eric Lichtblau is the author of Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, and The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men.
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Eric Lichtblau worked at the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, covering the Justice Department in their Washington bureau between 1999 and 2000.
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Eric Lichtblau joined The New York Times in September 2002 as a correspondent covering the Justice Department, and published his last story for the paper in April 2017.
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In both of his books, Eric Lichtblau used first rate research to uncover what many would consider abuses of power by government agencies.
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On January 20,2017, the Times published an article by the public editor acknowledging that the Times staff, including the editors and Eric Lichtblau, had access to materials and details indicating that the Russian interference was aimed at electing Trump, contradicting the October 31 article, and stating that "a strong case can be made that the Times was too timid in its decisions not to publish the material it had".
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In June 2017, Eric Lichtblau resigned from CNN after an article about a Senate investigation into Russian Direct Investment Fund was retracted because it did not meet CNN's editorial standards.