Sarah Ryley

Sarah Ryley is an American journalist working as an investigative reporter at The Trace, a non-profit news outlet that covers gun violence in America.[1] Previously, she was an editor and investigative journalist at the New York Daily News. The Daily News and ProPublica were joint recipients of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Ryley's extensive reporting on the New York Police Department's broken windows policing tactics. Her investigation documented "widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities".[2]

Early life and education

Ryley was born in Toledo, Ohio, and studied journalism at Wayne State University in Detroit.[3] She served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The South End and held internships at The Oakland Press, Brooklyn Eagle and The Detroit News.

Career

Ryley joined the New York Daily News in 2012. Her work exposing racial disparities in the New York Police Department's practice of issuing summonses for low-level offenses resulted in the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.[4] Her investigation into the police department's use of the nuisance abatement law to push people from their businesses and homes, co-published with ProPublica, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2017 and resulted in the passage of the Nuisance Abatement Fairness Act.[5][2]

Awards
  • 2017, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, "Nuisance Abatement" (presented jointly to the New York Daily News and ProPublica)[6]
  • 2017, James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, "Nuisance Abatement"[7]
  • 2016, May Sidney Award, "The NYPD is running stings against immigrant-owned shops, then pushing for warrantless searches"[8]
  • 2014, Deadline Club, Minority Focus Omnibus Award, "Broken Windows"

References
  1. "Newly Minted Pulitzer Winner Sarah Ryley Joins The Trace as an Investigative Reporter". The Trace. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
  2. "ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal". ProPublica. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
  3. University, Wayne State. "In-depth series written by former Wayne State University journalism student wins Pulitzer Prize". wayne.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
  4. "EXCLUSIVE: NYC looks to decriminalize minor offenses". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
  5. "New York City Set to Pass Sweeping Nuisance Abatement Reforms". ProPublica. 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
  6. http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-daily-news-and-propublica
  7. "Aronson Awards". Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  8. "NY Daily News/ProPublica win May Sidney for Exposing Abusive NYPD Evictions". Hillman Foundation. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
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