Samuel Loewenberg is a journalist who writes on foreign affairs, politics, culture, business, health, and poverty.

His articles and photos have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Portfolio, The Atlantic Online, Fortune, The Nation, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, and The Lancet. He has also shot and produced two films for PBS. Samuel has reported from China, Russia, Albania, Germany, Tanzania, Guatemala, Niger, Spain, Hungary, and Brazil.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Samuel attended public schools. He is an alumni of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and was a MacCracken Fellow in the doctoral program in American Studies at New York University. He has received journalism grants from the German Marshall Fund of the United States and The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and in 2001-2002 was a Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellow in Business and Economics at Columbia University.