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Portrait of Steve Lohr

Steve Lohr

I mainly write about technology and its impact on the economy, jobs and the workplace. That leads to stories on productivity, automation, inequality and antitrust. Those can be difficult subjects, but I try to bring them to life with new research and by talking to people, companies and organizations.

For the last several years, I’ve done stories that look at a big challenge: how to find, train and create paths to good jobs in the modern economy for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who do not have four-year college degrees. That reporting intersects with technology because the successful training and job-placement programs (largely nonprofits) tend to focus on technology skills for two reasons — there is demand for tech workers across the economy, and you can measure these skills.

I’ve been at The Times since 1979, and covered a lot of ground, literally and figuratively. I was a foreign correspondent for a decade based in Tokyo, Manila and London. I’ve written for every section of the paper — magazine, book review, culture, travel and others

I was a member of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2013. I’ve written two technology-related books: “Go To,” a history of software and computer programming, published in 2001; and “Data-ism,” on the field of data science and decision-making, published in 2015.

Before The Times, I worked for three years at Business Week, and before that for less than two years at the Binghamton Press in upstate New York. I grew up first in Wisconsin and when I was a teenager our family moved to Connecticut. I went to Colgate University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

I look for good subjects, and then build stories around those subjects. I try to be as honest as I can. What works, what doesn’t. I think of journalism as a curiosity license, not a forum. And, of course, I adhere to the Times ethics policy.

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