Nicholas Confessore is a reporter on the Metropolitan Desk of The New York Times

The New York Times

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covering Albany. He was previously an editor at The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly

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and a staff writer for The American Prospect

The American Prospect

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. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, and other publications. He won the 2003 Livingston Award

Livingston Award

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 for national reporting.

He was part of a team of reporters whose coverage of the downfall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American lawyer, former Democratic Party politician, and political commentator. He was the co-host of In the Arena, a talk-show and punditry forum broadcast on CNN until CNN cancelled his show in July of 2011...

 won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize

2009 Pulitzer Prize

The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 20, 2009, the 93rd annual awards.The New York Times won five awards this year, with the St. Petersburg Times being the only other multi-prize winner with two...

 for breaking news reporting and the Sigma Delta Chi award for deadline reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists

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Confessore graduated from Princeton University

Princeton University

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