A reporter at the New York Times, Lehren is part of a newly established computer-assisted reporting team to further in-depth reporting at the newspaper. He has worked on stories about the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, the effect of parental consent laws on underage abortion patients, and is working on a multi-part series examining the rise in special treatment awarded to religious institutions. He has been a producer at “Dateline NBC,” where he helped with coverage of the Iraq war, 9/11, and other breaking news and won team Emmys, a Polk, Loeb and IRE awards there. He also worked at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting in Columbia, Mo., and has written many freelance pieces. He was awarded a University of Maryland fellowship for covering state and local government finance in 1991 and has an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri and a BA from Lehigh University. Lehren speaks German fluently.