Ginger Thompson

Ginger Thompson is a deputy managing editor and chief of correspondents at ProPublica, where she has worked since 2014. She previously spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief and as an investigative reporter. She has spent the bulk of her career reporting from and about Latin America and the U.S./Mexico border, including immigration, political upheaval, attacks on human rights, and the failures of the fight against drug cartels. She was part of a team of national reporters at the Times that was awarded a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” She was also part of a team of reporters at ProPublica whose coverage of the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy won numerous awards, including a Polk Award, a Peabody Award, a Tobenkin Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 2019 she was the recipient of the John Chancellor Award for excellence in journalism.