Ginger Thompson
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Ginger Thompson is an American journalist and a senior reporter at ProPublica. A 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting{{Cite web|date=22 June 2000|title=Reaping What Was Sown On the Old Plantation; A Landowner Tells Her Family's Truth. A Park Ranger Wants a Broader Truth.|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-50|access-date=13 August 2018|work=pulitzer.org}} and finalist for the National Magazine Award, she spent 15 years at The New York Times, including time as a Washington correspondent and as an investigative reporter whose stories revealed Washington’s secret, sometimes tragic, role in Mexico’s fight against drug traffickers.
Thompson served as the Mexico City Bureau Chief for both The Times and The Baltimore Sun, and, for her work in the region, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer’s Gold Medal for Public Service and the winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, an InterAmerican Press Association Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award.
Prior to going to Mexico City for The Times, Thompson was part of a team of national reporters there that was awarded a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the series "How Race is Lived in America".
Life
Thompson graduated from Purdue University, where she was the school newspaper’s managing editor, and George Washington University, with a Master of Public Policy with a focus on human rights law.{{Cite web |url=https://www.propublica.org/people/ginger-thompson |title=Ginger Thompson |work=ProPublica |access-date=13 August 2018}}
After 15 years with The New York Times,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/ginger-thompson |title=Ginger Thompson |access-date=13 August 2018 |work=NY Times |publisher=The New York Times Company}} Thompson now works for ProPublica.{{Cite news |url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/ginger-thompson-made-us-care-children-separated-parents/ |title=How Ginger Thompson made us care for children separated from their parents |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |access-date=13 August 2018 |first=Jaya |last=Padmanabhan |date=28 June 2018}} Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ginger-thompson/ |title=All Stories by Ginger Thompson |magazine=The Atlantic |access-date=13 August 2018}} and National Geographic.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/making-of-a-massacre-mexico/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615211332/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/making-of-a-massacre-mexico/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 15, 2017 |title=How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico |date=13 June 2017 |access-date=13 August 2018 |magazine=National Geographic |first=Ginger |last=Thompson |editor-first=Kristen |editor-last=Luce}} She teaches at Columbia Journalism School.{{Cite web |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/ginger-thompson |title=Ginger Thompson |work=Columbia Journalism School |access-date=13 August 2018 |publisher=Columbia University}}
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External links
- https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/19/propublica-ginger-thompson-detained-children-crying-audio-ctn-sot.cnn
- https://muckrack.com/ginger-thompson
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