Longworth joined
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in 2003. He writes and hosts The Chicago Council blog,
The Midwesterner. He is a regular contributor to the
American Review. For 20 years, Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the
Chicago Tribune and
United Press International, and was the
Tribune’s chief European correspondent. He has reported from 80 countries on five continents. He also is the author of
Global Squeeze and coauthor of
Global Chicago. Longworth, an
Iowa native, graduated from Northwestern and won NU's Alumni Merit Award in 2000. He was a
Nieman Fellow at
Harvard University, won the Overseas Press Club award twice, for series on globalization and the UN, and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1980 and 2003
Pulitzer Prize. He also has won every major national award for economic reporting, plus the
Lowell Thomas award for a story on a camel trek through the Sahara Desert. He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York, has been a speaker at the Davos conferences, and for five years was a mentor to
StreetWise, Chicago's newspaper for the homeless. == Bibliography ==