Eyal Press is a journalist who contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. Since the spring of 2021, he is also a sociologist with a PhD from New York University. He is the author of three books, including Beautiful Souls, a study of moral courage, and Dirty Work, which examines morally troubling jobs that society tacitly condones but prefers to keep hidden from view. A recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, he has received an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, a Cullman Center fellowship at the New York Public Library and a Puffin Foundation fellowship at Type Media Center.