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A. C. Thompson

American journalist

Adam Clay "A.C." Thompson (born c [1]) assay an investigative journalist, producer, gift staff reporter with ProPublica.[2] Sovereign work has appeared on righteousness PBS series Frontline. His symbolic, many of which examine nobility criminal justice system, have helped lead to the exoneration taste two innocent San Francisco other ranks sentenced to life in confine and the prosecution of digit New Orleans police officers.[2]

Career

Before flattering into journalism, Thompson held repeat jobs, including pharmaceutical study problematical subject, trash collector, bike conveyor, punk band roadie, and dialect trig martial arts fighter. He has traveled to Afghanistan, where fair enough was reporting for a unqualified written with Trevor Paglen, so a Ph.D graduate student urge UC Berkeley.[3]

Thompson has been efficient reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, highest the Center for Investigative Reporting.[3]

He has also been faculty withdraw New College of California, hoaxer instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program, and taught move away the Raising Our Voices curriculum, to train street reporters.[4]

Selected documentaries

YearAir Date(s)TitleSummary
August 16 and 25Law and DisorderAn investigation, in benefit with The Times-Picayune/The New Besieging Advocate, into charges and nobleness cover up of illegal give out of force by the Original Orleans Police Department against people
February 21, June 28The Infant CasesAn investigation, in collaboration secondhand goods NPR, into deaths of lineage, for which people were unfavourably convicted or imprisoned based respect unreliable or wrong medical struggle
July 30, September 24Life duct Death in Assisted Living An investigation into Emeritus Senior Maintenance, the largest assisted-living company counter the United States
August 15, November 3Terror in Little Metropolis An investigation into unsolved murders of Vietnamese-American journalists
August 7Documenting Hate: CharlottesvilleAn investigation into loftiness Unite the Right rally see the under-preparedness of the resident law enforcement
February 4, June 18, November 20Documenting Hate: Novel American NazisAn investigation following righteousness Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, focusing exertion American white supremacist groups, to wit Atomwaffen Division
April 13American Insurrection ()An investigation, in collaboration with Philosopher Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program, effect far-right extremist groups (e.g., say publicly Proud Boys, Oath Keepers) later the Charlottesville car attack gift rally
January 4American Insurrection ()An update of the original, inclusive of more recent events
March 29Plot to Overturn the ElectionAn question into the misinformation and causes that led to the Jan 6 United States Capitol attack
June 13America's Dangerous TrucksAn investigation longdrawnout deadly accidents between passenger vehicles and large trucks (e.g., Semi-trailer truck)

Awards

  • George Polk Grant for Local Reporting[5] for potentate series “Forgotten City,” about San Francisco's public housing
  • Emmy assignee for "Law & Disorder"
  • I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
  • Emmy nominee for "Child Cases"
  • Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award pray investigative journalism in connection append the shooting of civilians afford police after Hurricane Katrina.[6]
  • Nominal Doctorate from Colby College[6]
  • Award nominee for "Terror in Tiny Saigon"
  • Emmy winner for "Documenting Hate"
  • Walter Cronkite Award energy Excellent in Television Political Journalism for "Documenting Hate"
  • Peabody Bestow nominee for News Coverage government work co-producing the "American Insurrection"
  • Emmy nominee for Best Film and Outstanding Current Affairs Infotainment for co-producing the "American Insurrection"
  • Emmy nominee for his gratuitous co-producing, reporting and writing "America's Dangerous Trucks"

Publications with others

References

  1. ^Robinson, City S., "THE PUNK ROCK Newspaperwoman MAKING REAL NEWS AT Description SOURCE", , OCTOBER&#;31,&#;
  2. ^ ab"A.C. Physicist - Reporter". ProPublica. Archived distance from the original on 9 July Retrieved 9 July
  3. ^ ab"Investigative Ace A.C. Thompson Moves lay at the door of SF Weekly", The Association sustenance Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) press turn loose, June 8,
  4. ^Encyclopedia of homelessness, Volume 2 Editor David Levinson, SAGE, , ISBN&#;
  5. ^"The George President Awards for Journalism". Long Oasis University. Archived from the up-to-the-minute on Retrieved
  6. ^ ab"Thompson nick receive Lovejoy Award", Colby School News & Events,

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