Charles Duhigg (born 1974) is a Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Smarter Faster Better.
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Early life
Charles Duhigg was born in 1974 in New Mexico. He graduated from Yale University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Career
Duhigg is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer. Between 2006 and 2017, he was a reporter at The New York Times. He currently writes for the New York Times Magazine and other publications.
Duhigg was one of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices of Apple and other technology companies. Duhigg wrote or co-wrote the series Toxic Waters, Golden Opportunities, and was part of the team that wrote The Reckoning.
Duhigg's book about the science of habit formation, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, was published by Random House on February 28, 2012. An extract was published in New York Times entitled "How Companies Learn Your Secrets." The Power of Habit has spent over three years on The New York Times's bestseller lists.
He is also the author of Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, which was released on March 8, 2016. It became a New York Times Bestseller on March 27, 2016.
Personal life
Duhigg resides in Brooklyn, New York City.
Awards
- 2007 George Polk Award,
- 2007 Heywood Broun Award,
- 2008 Hillman Prize,
- 2008 Gerald Loeb Award,
- 2009 Scripps Howard National Journalism Award,
- 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal,
- 2010 United States National Academies National Academies Communication Award,
- 2010 Society of Environmental Journalists Investigative Reporting Award,
- awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Deadline Awards, and the John B. Oakes Awards.
- 2013, with other The New York Times reporters, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for a series of 10 articles on the business practices of Apple and other technology companies.
Books
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
References
External links
- Journalist's Twitter
- Journalist's New York Times website
- Journalist's website
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