Ginger Thompson is an American journalist and a senior reporter atProPublica. A2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting^[1] and finalist for theNational Magazine Award, she spent 15 years atThe 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 bothThe Times andThe 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 theMaria Moors Cabot Prize, theSelden Ring Award for investigative reporting, anInterAmerican Press Association Award, and anOverseas Press Club Award.

Prior to going to Mexico City forThe 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".

Thompson graduated fromPurdue University, where she was the school newspaper’s managing editor, andGeorge Washington University, with a Master of Public Policy with a focus on human rights law.^[2]

After 15 years withThe New York Times,^[3] Thompson now works for ProPublica.^[2][4] Her work has also appeared inThe Atlantic^[5] andNational Geographic.^[6] She teaches atColumbia Journalism School.^[7]

• 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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