• Source: A. C. Thompson

Adam Clay "A.C." Thompson (born c.1972 ) is an investigative journalist, producer, and staff reporter with ProPublica. His work has appeared on the PBS series Frontline. His stories, many of which examine the criminal justice system, have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison and the prosecution of seven New Orleans police officers.




Career


Before going into journalism, Thompson held many jobs, including pharmaceutical study test subject, trash collector, bike messenger, punk band roadie, and a martial arts fighter. He has traveled to Afghanistan, where he was reporting for a book written with Trevor Paglen, then a Ph.D graduate student at UC Berkeley.
Thompson has been a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
He has also been faculty at New College of California, an instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program, and taught at the Raising Our Voices program, to train street reporters.




Selected documentaries






Awards


2005 George Polk Award for Local Reporting for his series “Forgotten City,” about San Francisco's public housing
2011 Emmy nominee for "Law & Disorder"
2011 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
2012 Emmy nominee for "Child Cases"
2013 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for investigative journalism in connection with the shooting of civilians by police after Hurricane Katrina.
2013 Honorary Doctorate from Colby College
2016 Emmy nominee for "Terror in Little Saigon"
2019 Emmy winner for "Documenting Hate"
2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellent in Television Political Journalism for "Documenting Hate"
2021 Peabody Award nominee for News Coverage his work co-producing the "American Insurrection"
2022 Emmy nominee for Best Documentary and Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary for co-producing the "American Insurrection"
2024 Emmy nominee for his work co-producing, reporting and writing "America's Dangerous Trucks"




Publications with others


Torture Taxi. Co-authored with Trevor Paglen. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-933633-09-3.
Icon, 2007. ISBN 9781840468304.




References






External links


A.C. Thompson profile at FRONTLINE
A.C. Thompson profile at ProPublica
Terror in Little Saigon: New Doc Ties US-Allied Kill Squad to Unsolved Murders of Vietnamese Journos In US, Democracy Now! November 11, 2015.

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