| Dionne Searcey | |
| Education: | Degree in journalism and French |
| Alma Mater: | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Known For: | Investigating Boko Haram |
Dionne Searcey is an American investigative journalist currently working for The New York Times.
Dionne Searcey grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a degree in journalism and French.[1] She began working as a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. She also worked for Newsday, The Seattle Times and the Chicago Tribune before she got a took a job with The Wall Street Journal. There she worked as a national legal correspondent and investigative reporter. Her area was the telecom industry until she moved to The New York Times in 2014 and began to write about the American economy.[2]
In 2015 Searcey became the West Africa bureau chief. She won the Michael Kelly Award for her reporting on Boko Haram,[3] as well as a citation by the Overseas Press Club.[4] In 2018 she partnered with Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow to make I Am Not A Weapon, video interviews with female survivors of Boko Haram.[5] She was nominated for an Emmy for her stories on Boko Haram.[6] She won a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times in 2020 for International Reporting: Russian Assassins and her contribution from the Central African Republic.[7] She received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia".[8]
Her memoir In Pursuit of Disobedient Women was published in March 2020.[9] Searcey is now the politics reporter at The New York Times.
She is married with children and lives in Brooklyn.