Investigative journalist
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.[ 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
References
(2008–2009)
2008: Jenny Anderson , Landon Thomas Jr.
2008 (HM): Katie Merx , Tim Higgins , Tom Walsh , Mark Phelan , Susan Tompor , Sarah A. Webster , Katherine Yung , Joe Guy Collier
2009: Carrick Mollenkamp , Susanne Craig , Serena Ng , Aaron Lucchetti , Matthew Karnitschnig , Dan Fitzpatrick , Deborah Solomon , Dennis K. Berman , Liam Pleven , Peter Lattman , Annelena Lobb
(2010–2019)
2010: Christine Tierney , David Shepardson , Gordon Trowbridge
2011: Tom Lauricella , Peter A. McKay , Scott Patterson , Jenny Strasburg , Robin Sidel , Carolyn Cui , Mary Pilon
2012: Brent Snavely , Greg Gardner , Chrissie Thompson
2013: Thomas Lee , David Phelps , Janet Moore , Paul McEnroe , Tony Kennedy , Patrick Kennedy , Eric Wieffering
2014: Jim Yardley , Julfikar Ali Manik , Steven Greenhouse
2015: Gregory Zuckerman , Kirsten Grind
2016: David Benoit , Jacob Bunge , Dana Cimilluca , Dana Mattioli , Dennis K. Berman
2017: Zanny Minton Beddoes , Henry Tricks , Anton La Guardia , Chris Lockwood , Edward McBride
2018: Mike Isaac , Farhad Manjoo , Kevin Roose , Ashwin Seshagiri
2019: Eliot Brown , Scott Calvert , Peter Grant , Tawnell Hobbs , Katie Honan , Melissa Korn , Douglas MacMillan , Eric Morath , Keiko Morris , Shayndi Raice , Stephanie Stamm , Laura Stevens , Jimmy Vielkind , Lauren Weber
(2020–2023)
2020: Hadra Ahmed , Hannah Beech , Selam Gebrekidan , David Gelles , James Glanz , Thomas Kaplan , Natalie Kitroeff , Jack Nicas , Norimitsu Onishi , Dionne Searcey , Kenneth P. Vogel , Zach Wichter
2021: Dan McCrum , Olaf Storbeck , Stefania Palma , John Reed , Guy Chazan , Laurence Fletcher
2022: Juliet Chung , Gunjan Banerji , Julia-Ambra Verlaine , Caitlin McCabe , Akane Otani
2023: Angus Berwick , Luc Cohen , Lawrence Delevingne , Elizabeth Howcroft , Hannah Lang , Chris Prentice , Koh Gui Qing , Greg Roumelotis , Anirban Sen , Jasper Ward , Tom Wilson