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Hannah Dreier
Hannah Dreier in Caracas in 2018
Alma materWesleyan University
OccupationJournalist
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Awards
Websitehannahdreier.com

Hannah Dreieris an American journalist and staff writer forThe New York Times.Previously, she was Venezuela correspondent forThe Associated Pressduring the first four years ofNicolás Maduro's presidency. In 2016, she was kidnapped by the Venezuelan secret police and threatened because of her work. She has also written forProPublicaandThe Washington Post.

She is the first person in the history of American journalism to win both thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reportingand thePulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.[1][2]

Education and career

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Dreier grew up in San Francisco and graduated fromWesleyan University.[3]

The Associated Press

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Dreier joined TheAssociated Pressas a politics reporter inSacramentoand later covered the business of gambling fromLas Vegas.She was the AP's Venezuela correspondent for five years, moving to Caracas in 2013 amid anationwide protest movement.She told the story of the country's unraveling from inside prisons, hospitals and factories. Her "Venezuela Undone"series illustrated the country's social and economic collapse through accounts of ordinary citizens struggling to survive.

Following thenarcosobrinos affair,which saw presidentNicolás Maduro's nephews arrested in the United States for drug trafficking, Dreier was detained bySEBINsecret police agents inBarinas,Venezuela. The agents threatened her during a recorded interrogation, saying they would behead her likeISILdid toJames Foley.They also said that they would let her go for a kiss. Finally, agents said that they wanted to force the United States to exchange Maduro's nephews for Dreier, accusing her of being a spy and sabotaging the Venezuelan economy.[4]

A piece in theColumbia Journalism Reviewhighlighted Dreier's work translating the Venezuela crisis for foreign readers. "Dreier has helped the rest of us understand how, why and what, exactly, is taking place in the country. She’s also gained a huge following on social media, where readers catch a glimpse into everyday life there—the quirky, surprising and alarming—sometimes from the window of her apartment," it said.[5]

ProPublica

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In 2017, Dreier joinedProPublicaas a reporter covering immigration.[6]There, she wrote a series of investigative magazine features about the gang MS-13.[7]One story showed that the FBI was using teenagers as gang informants, then turning them over to be locked up with the same gang leaders they had informed on.[8]She spent more than a year embedded on Long Island with members of the MS-13 gang. She told the Longform Podcast, “You can’t come up with a good story idea in the office. I’ve never had a good idea that I just came up with out of thin air. It always comes from being on the ground.”[9]

The Washington Post

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Dreier worked for three years atThe Washington Post.She reported on topics including policing, mental illness and federal disaster aid.[10][11]In response to her reporting on inequities in disaster aid programs,FEMAreversed a policy that had shut out tens of thousands of Black disaster survivors living onheirs property.[12]She spent weeks in a California FEMA trailer camp for a story. Esquire said, “Read the whole thing. Read it before you start reading about what’s going on in the Congress, because all you need to know about that can be found in an empty trailer park at the edge of the world.”[13]

The New York Times

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Dreier became a staff writer atThe New York Timesin 2022. She reported on a shadow work force of migrant children working dangerous jobs across the United States. During her research for the project, she interviewed more than 500 working migrant children.[14]Theserieswas called “the most recognized piece of global journalism” of 2024.[15]

In 2024, Dreier served as commencement speaker for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[16]

Awards

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Dreier’s reporting has received many honors and awards, including recognition from theNational Magazine Awards,thePeabody Awards,theOverseas Press Club,theJames Beard Awards,theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards,and theGerald Loeb Awards.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]She has twice won Harvard University'sGoldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.[26][27]

In 2017, she received the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for bravery in covering the violent turmoil in Venezuela.[28]She won theLivingston Award,which honors journalists under the age of 35, forstoriesrevealing that the Trump administration was using information from confidential therapy sessions to deport asylum-seekers.[29]She was also a finalist for the award in 2012, 2017 and 2019 and 2021.[30][31][32][33]

Dreier won thePulitzer Prize for Feature Writingin 2019. The Pulitzer Board cited her “powerful, intimate narratives that followed Salvadoran immigrants on New York’s Long Island.”[34]She was a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reportingin 2022 for “a gripping, deeply reported series that illuminated how FEMA fails American disaster survivors.”[35]She won thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reportingin 2024 for “revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States.”[36]

Dreier's work has been collected in several anthologies, includingTheBest American Newspaper NarrativesandThe Best American Magazine Writing.[37][38][39]

References

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  1. ^LaForme, Ren (2024-05-06)."Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes".Poynter.Retrieved2024-05-06.
  2. ^"Feature Writing".April 20, 2019.
  3. ^"Hannah Dreier To Join The Times".The New York Times Company.2022-03-02.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  4. ^"Departing AP reporter looks back at Venezuela's slide".The Washington Post.2 August 2017. Archived fromthe originalon 2 August 2017.Retrieved2 August2017.
  5. ^"Q&A: Hannah Dreier on covering a country headed for economic collapse".Columbia Journalism Review.RetrievedMay 29,2019.
  6. ^"ProPublica Hires Reporter Hannah Dreier to Cover Immigration".ProPublica.Retrieved30 August2017.
  7. ^"MS-13 on Long Island".ProPublica.28 September 2018.Retrieved2019-01-06.
  8. ^Dreier, Hannah (2018-04-02)."A Teen Turned Informant to Escape MS-13. Now His Life Is in Even More Danger".Intelligencer.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  9. ^"Longform Podcast #381: Hannah Dreier · Longform".Longform.2020-02-26.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  10. ^"Trust and Consequences".The Washington Post.
  11. ^"The Worst Case Scenario".The Washington Post.
  12. ^Dreier, Hannah (2021-09-02)."FEMA changes policy that kept thousands of Black families from receiving disaster aid".Washington Post.ISSN0190-8286.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  13. ^"Forget Congress. Everything You Need to Know Can Be Found in a Trailer Park at the Edge of the World".Esquire.2021-10-19.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  14. ^Castillo, Amaris (2024-05-07)."Hannah Dreier wins Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for investigative stories into migrant child labor".Poynter.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  15. ^Warren, Christopher (2024-05-13)."What is the future of great journalism? Awards give us some clues".Crikey.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  16. ^"Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism on LinkedIn: #cjsendoff2024".www.linkedin.com.Retrieved2024-10-05.
  17. ^"Times Wins 5 Awards From ASME".Associated Press.8 April 2024.Retrieved2 August2017.
  18. ^"ELLIES 2019 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED | ASME".asme.magazine.org.Archived fromthe originalon July 28, 2019.RetrievedMay 29,2019.
  19. ^"ProPublica Named a Finalist for Two Peabody Awards".9 April 2019.
  20. ^Brown, Carson (5 June 2017)."Associated Press reporter Hannah Dreier awarded 2016 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism".Northwestern University.Retrieved30 August2017.
  21. ^Press Release (9 March 2017)."Chronicling 'the unraveling of a nation'".Retrieved21 March2021.
  22. ^"The 2024 James Beard Media Award Winners | James Beard Foundation".www.jamesbeard.org.Retrieved2024-10-04.
  23. ^"Press release".RFK press release.Retrieved27 June2019.
  24. ^Management, UCLA Anderson School of (2021-05-03)."Winners".UCLA Anderson School of Management.Retrieved2024-10-04.
  25. ^Management, UCLA Anderson School of."Winners of the 2024 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event".www.prnewswire.com.Retrieved2024-11-01.
  26. ^Schwartz, Liz (2024-04-04)."Hannah Dreier Wins 2024 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting".Goldsmith Awards.Retrieved2024-10-04.
  27. ^"Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting".5 April 2022.
  28. ^University, Medill-Northwestern."Hannah Dreier Foley Medal - Medill - Northwestern University".www.medill.northwestern.edu.Retrieved2024-10-04.
  29. ^"The Washington Post's Hannah Dreier awarded 2021 Livingston Award for national reporting".The Washington Post.
  30. ^"Livingston Finalists".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-09-05.
  31. ^"2017 Livingston Awards Finalists Announced".16 May 2017.RetrievedJanuary 5,2018.
  32. ^"Livingston Award finalists 2018".May 2019.
  33. ^Mastro, Joey (2021-05-04)."Announcing the 2021 Livingston Award Finalists".Wallace House Center for Journalists.Retrieved2024-10-04.
  34. ^"The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing".20 April 2019.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  35. ^"The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Investigative Reporting".10 April 2022.
  36. ^"The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Investigative Reporting".6 May 2024.
  37. ^The Best American Magazine Writing 2019.Columbia University Press. December 2019.ISBN9780231548663.
  38. ^Reaves, Gayle (15 June 2018).The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 5.University of North Texas Press.ISBN9781574417272.
  39. ^"The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 9".22 August 2022.
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