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Adam Clay "A.C." Thompson is an investigative journalist and staff reporter with ProPublica.[1] His work has appeared on the PBS series Frontline.

He was a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.[2] He was faculty at New College of California, and instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program. He teaches at the Raising Our Voices program, to train street reporters.[3]

Awards

  • 2005 George Polk Award for Local Reporting[4] for his series “Forgotten City,” about San Francisco's public housing
  • 2013 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for investigative journalism in connection with the shooting of civilians by police after Hurricane Katrina.[5]

Publications with others

  • Torture Taxi. Co-authored with Trevor Paglen. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-933633-09-3.

References

  1. ^ "A.C. Thompson - Reporter". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  2. ^ http://aan.org/gyrobase/Conferences/Speakers?convID=193287[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of homelessness, Volume 2 Editor David Levinson, SAGE, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8
  4. ^ "The George Polk Awards for Journalism". Long Island University. 2005. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  5. ^ http://www.colby.edu/news_events/c/pr/092013/2728851/ac-thompson-of-propublica-to-receive-2013-lovejoy-award/
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