A.C. Thompson (born c.1972 [1] ) is an investigative journalist, producer, and senior reporter with ProPublica [2] and a correspondent for the PBS series Frontline .
A.C. Thompson (born c.1972 [1] ) is an investigative journalist, producer, and senior reporter with ProPublica [2] and a correspondent for the PBS series Frontline .
Before going into journalism, Thompson held many jobs, including pharmaceutical study test subject, trash collector, bike messenger, punk band roadie, and a martial arts fighter. He has traveled to Afghanistan, where he was reporting for a book written with Trevor Paglen, then a Ph.D graduate student at UC Berkeley. [3]
Thompson has been a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian , SF Weekly , and the Center for Investigative Reporting. [3]
He has also been faculty at New College of California, an instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program, and taught at the Raising Our Voices program, to train street reporters. [4]
| Year | Air Date(s) | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | August 16 and 25 | Law and Disorder | An investigation, in collaboration with The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate, into charges and the cover up of illegal use of force by the New Orleans Police Department against citizens. |
| 2012 | February 21, June 28 | The Child Cases | An investigation, in collaboration with NPR, into deaths of children, for which people were wrongly convicted or imprisoned based on unreliable or wrong medical evidence. [6] |
| 2013 | July 30, September 24 | Life and Death in Assisted Living | An investigation into Emeritus Senior Living, the largest assisted-living company in the United States. [7] |
| 2015 | August 15, November 3 | Terror in Little Saigon | An investigation into unsolved murders of Vietnamese-American journalists. [8] |
| 2018 | August 7 | Documenting Hate: Charlottesville | An investigation into the 2017 Unite the Right rally and the under-preparedness of the local law enforcement. [9] |
| 2018 | February 4, June 18, November 20 | Documenting Hate: New American Nazis | An investigation following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, focusing on American white supremacist groups, specifically Atomwaffen Division. [10] |
| 2021 | April 13 | American Insurrection (2021) | An investigation, in collaboration with Berkeley Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program, into far-right extremist groups (e.g., the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers) following the 2017 Charlottesville car attack and rally. [11] |
| 2022 | January 4 | American Insurrection (2022) | An update of the original, including more recent events. [12] |
| 2022 | March 29 | Plot to Overturn the Election | An investigation into the misinformation and causes that led to the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [13] |
| 2023 | June 13 | America's Dangerous Trucks | An investigation into deadly accidents between passenger vehicles and large trucks (e.g., Semi-trailer truck). [14] |