Hannah Dreier

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Hannah Dreier
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Hannah Dreier in Venezuela in 2018
Alma materWesleyan University
OccupationJournalist
Employer
Awards

Hannah Dreier is an American journalist who writes for The Washington Post. She was the Venezuela correspondent for Associated Press for three years and later covered immigration for ProPublica, where she won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Education and career[]

Hannah Dreier grew up in San Francisco. After completing high school at The Urban School of San Francisco, she graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and spent the first years of her career at The San Jose Mercury News.[1]

Dreier joined Associated Press as a politics reporter in the Sacramento bureau and later covered the business of gambling from Las Vegas. She was the Venezuela correspondent for Associated Press for three years, moving to Caracas in 2014 amid a nationwide protest movement, and has told the story of the country's unraveling from inside prisons, hospitals and factories. Her 2016 "Venezuela Undone" series illustrated Venezuela’s social and economic collapse through deeply reported accounts of ordinary citizens struggling to survive and was recognized by the Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, the Michael Kelly Award,[2] the Gerald Loeb Award for International business journalism,[3] and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.[1]

Following the narcosobrinos affair which saw president Nicolás Maduro's nephews arrested in the United States for drug trafficking, Dreier was detained by SEBIN (Bolivarian Intelligence Service) agents in Sabaneta, Barinas. Agents threatened her during an interrogation, saying they would behead her like ISIL did to James Foley and said that they would let her go for a kiss. Finally, agents said that they wanted to coerce 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 the Columbia Journalism Review highlighted 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]

In 2017, Dreier joined ProPublica as a reporter covering immigration.[6] There, she wrote an investigative series about the gang MS-13.[7]

Awards[]

Her stories have been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards,[8] the National Magazine Awards, the Peabody Awards[9] and Investigative Reporters and Editors.[6] In 2017 she was the recipient of the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for her coverage of the recurring turmoil in Venezuela.[1][6][10][11][12]

In 2019, Dreier won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.[13]

In 2013, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for revealing that the state of California had been raiding a fund meant for children who lost parents in the 9/11 attacks.[14] In 2017, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for “Venezuela Undone,” which documented that country’s humanitarian collapse.[15] In 2017, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for “Trapped in Gangland,” which tracked a botched police crackdown on the gang MS-13.[16] In 2021, she won the Livingston Award for stories showing how the Trump administration was weaponizing confidential disclosures that young asylum-seekers made in therapy sessions.[17]

Books[]

Dreier's work has been republished in collections including The Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Newspaper Narratives.[18][19]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Brown, Carson (5 June 2017). "Associated Press reporter Hannah Dreier awarded 2016 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism". Northwestern University. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Hannah Dreier | The Michael Kelly Award". www.kellyaward.com. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  4. ^ "Departing AP reporter looks back at Venezuela's slide". The Washington Post. 2 August 2017. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Q&A: Hannah Dreier on covering a country headed for economic collapse". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "ProPublica Hires Reporter Hannah Dreier to Cover Immigration". ProPublica. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  7. ^ "MS-13 on Long Island". ProPublica. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. ^ "Press release". RFK press release. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  9. ^ https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-named-a-finalist-for-two-peabody-awards. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ "Associated Press announces 2017 staff awards". Associated Press. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  11. ^ Press Release (9 March 2021). "2020 Award Winners". Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  12. ^ "ELLIES 2019 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED | ASME". asme.magazine.org. Archived from the original on July 28, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  13. ^ "The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced | Columbia News". news.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  14. ^ "Livingston Finalists". Check |archive-url= value (help)
  15. ^ https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/2017-livingston-awards-finalists-announced/. Retrieved 01/05/2018. Check date values in: |access-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "Livingston Award finalists 2018".
  17. ^ The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/06/10/washington-posts-hannah-dreier-awarded-2021-livingston-award-national-reporting/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-american-magazine-writing-2019/9780231190015
  19. ^ Reaves, Gayle (15 June 2018). The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 5. ISBN 9781574417272.

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