Dionne Searcey
Dionne Searcey | |
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| Education | Degree in journalism and French |
| Alma mater | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Known for | Investigating Boko Haram |
Dionne Searcey is an American investigative journalist currently working for The New York Times.
Biography
[edit]Dionne Searcey grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a degree in journalism and French.[1] She began working as a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. She also worked for Newsday, The Seattle Times and the Chicago Tribune before she got a took a job with The Wall Street Journal.[1] There she worked as a national legal correspondent and investigative reporter. Her area was the telecom industry until she moved to The New York Times in 2014 and began to write about the American economy.[2]
In 2015 Searcey became the West Africa bureau chief. She won the Michael Kelly Award for her reporting on Boko Haram,[3] as well as a citation by the Overseas Press Club.[4] In 2018 she partnered with Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow to make I Am Not A Weapon, video interviews with female survivors of Boko Haram.[5] She was nominated for an Emmy for her stories on Boko Haram.[6] She won a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times in 2020 for International Reporting: Russian Assassins and her contribution from the Central African Republic.[7] She received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia".[8]
Her memoir In Pursuit of Disobedient Women was published in March 2020.[9] Searcey is now the politics reporter at The New York Times.
She is married with children and lives in Brooklyn.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Five Questions to Seven Women Who Inspire Us". The American Interest. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "NYTimes biz desk hires Searcey from WSJ". Talking Biz News. 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
- ^ "Dionne Searcey Wins 2018 Michael Kelly Award". The Atlantic. 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
- ^ "The Times Wins Two Overseas Press Club Awards". New York Times. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kathryn Bigelow Brings Awareness to Women Affected by Boko Haram in Powerful Campaign". LBBOnline. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
- ^ "Dionne Searcey". Literary Hub. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Coleman, Nancy (29 May 2020). "Danger and Detective Work: How These Journalists Won a Pulitzer". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Anderson School of Management announces 2020 Loeb Award winners in business journalism" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. November 13, 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ Searcey, Dionne (2020-03-10). In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away. Random House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-399-17985-3.
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