David Gonzalez is an award-winning journalist at The New York Times. Among other posts, he has been the Times Bronx Bureau Chief, the "About New York" Columnist, and the Central America and Caribbean Bureau Chief. His coverage has ranged from the Oklahoma city bombing and Haiti’s humanitarian crises, to chronicling how the Bronx emerged from years of official neglect, to in-depth reports on how Latino immigration is shaping the United States.
In addition to his print reporting, Gonzalez is a photographer and the co-editor of the Times Lens Blog, which has become the premier internet site for photojournalists from around the world.
His photographic career began at En Foco, and has continued in recent years at the New York Times, where he has published his overseas and domestic work both in print and in blogs like City Room and Lens. He is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Among his prizes, he earned a 2008 Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for “House Afire,†a groundbreaking series on the life of a struggling Pentecostal storefront church. He also was awarded Columbia University’s Mike Berger Award in May 1992, for his coverage of New York City and its neighborhoods. His feature writing has also been twice honored by Columbia University’s Workshops on Race and Ethnicity.