"Michael Luo" (born 1976) is an United States/American journalist who currently writes for the The New York Times/New York Times, where he is an investigative reporter.

Luo was born in Pittsburgh in 1976. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. in government in 1998. He was a writer for two years for the Associated Press, where he wrote narrative feature stories, and also worked at Newsday, where he was a police reporter on Long Island. Luo also reported for the Los Angeles Times before moving to the New York Times. In 2002, Luo received a George Polk Awards/George Polk Award for Criminal Justice Reporting and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists "for a series of articles on three poor, mentally retarded African-Americans in Alabama who were in prison for killing a baby that probably never existed." The story resulted in the release of two of the three, while the third remained in prison for a separate charge. In 2000, Luo won a T.W. Wang Award for Excellence for journalism on Chinese-American topics.

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