Andrew W. Lehren is a reporter at the New York Times, and has worked on a range of national, international and investigative stories. He was one of the newspaper’s lead reporters analyzing the Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan and Iraq war logs and Guantanamo detainee dossiers.
He contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that examined substandard Chinese chemicals tainting U.S. and European pharmaceuticals. He has covered the BP oil spill, Olympic sports, mining disasters and abuses in a major railroad’s pension system.
Before joining the Times, he was an investigative producer at NBC News. His worked included covering 9/11 and terrorism. His investigative documentaries examined racially biased policing, defective automobiles and how a major insurance company worked with an elaborate system to defrauded its own customers.
He has won numerous awards, including a Polk, Peabody, two duPont-Columbia batons and Edward R. Murrow investigative awards, Emmys, three Investigative Reporters & Editors awards, an Overseas Press Club honor and a Daniel Pearl investigative award. He has worked for Investigative Reporters & Editors, overseeing its computer-assisted reporting operation. He has written for Reuters, the Philadelphia Daily News, JazzTimes and the National Law Journal, and teaches investigative reporting at the City University of New York’s graduate school. He earned degrees from the University of Missouri and Lehigh University.
