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Ginger Thompson is an American journalist and a senior reporter at ProPublica. A 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting [1] and finalist for the National Magazine Award, she spent 15 years at The 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 both The Times and The 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 the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, an InterAmerican Press Association Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award.
Prior to going to Mexico City for The 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 from Purdue University, where she was the school newspaper’s managing editor, and George Washington University, with a Master of Public Policy with a focus on human rights law. [2]
After 15 years with The New York Times, [3] Thompson now works for ProPublica. [2] [4] Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic [5] and National Geographic . [6] She teaches at Columbia Journalism School. [7]
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Marilyn Walser Thompson is an American investigative journalist, author, and editor. She is the author of books covering American events such as the Wedtech scandal and the 2001 anthrax attacks, and co-authored two biographies of Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC). At the Washington Post, Thompson was an editor of reports on gun violence that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service in 1992. As an editor on the Investigative Team, she led the group that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1999 and 2000.