| Dionne Searcey | |
|---|---|
| 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
Dionne Searcey grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a degree in journalism and French. 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. 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.
In 2015 Searcey became the West Africa bureau chief. She won the Michael Kelly Award for her reporting on Boko Haram, as well as a citation by the Overseas Press Club. 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. She was nominated for an Emmy for her stories on Boko Haram. 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. She received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia".
Her memoir In Pursuit of Disobedient Women was published in March 2020. Searcey is now the politics reporter at The New York Times.
She is married with children and lives in Brooklyn.
See also
References
- ^ "Five Questions to Seven Women Who Inspire Us". The American Interest. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ "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.
- "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.
- Coleman, Nancy (29 May 2020). "Danger and Detective Work: How These Journalists Won a Pulitzer". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- "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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