Mr.
Wesley Morris
The New York Times
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Journalism, Media, and Communications
Elected
2022
Wesley Morris is a critic at large at the New York Times, where he writes about race and culture. The wide range of topics he has written about include the moral force of civilian cellphone videos, Hollywood's addiction to racial reconciliation fantasies, and the endangerment of romantic comedies. He won a Pulitzer Prize, his second, for criticism in 2021.
Previously, Morris worked as a staff writer and columnist for Grantland and film critic for The Boston Globe, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2012. Before that, he wrote for The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner. Morris is a graduate of Yale University.
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