The announcement that Emi Nakamura won the 2019 John Bates Clark Medal received widespread news coverage in the mainstream press. The Wall Street Journal and The Economist both published features for which they interviewed Nakamura, a 38-year-old macroeconomist at UC Berkeley. Bloomberg’s Noah Smith also praised her after she received the honor, calling Nakamura “an undisputed star in the field of macroeconomics” and saying that in “an age of hyper-specialization, Nakamura stands out as a virtuoso.”