Adam Clay "A.C." Thompson (born c.1972 Robinson, Eugene S.
"THE PUNK ROCK JOURNALIST MAKING REAL NEWS AT THE SOURCE"
''ozy.com'', OCTOBER 31, 2017) is an

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and staff reporter with ''

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''. His work has appeared on the

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series ''

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''. He was a reporter for the ''

San Francisco Bay Guardian The ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' was a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1966 by Bruce B. Brugmann and his wife, Jean Dibble. The paper was shut down on October 14, 2014. It was relaun ...

'', ''

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'', and the

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. He was faculty at

New College of California New College of California was a college founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President John Leary. It ceased operations in early 2008. New College's main campus was housed in several buildings in the Mission ...

, and instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program. He teaches at the Raising Our Voices program, to train street reporters.

Awards

*2005

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

for Local Reporting for his series “Forgotten City,” about San Francisco's public housing *2013 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for investigative journalism in connection with the shooting of civilians by police after Hurricane Katrina."Thompson to receive 2013 Lovejoy Award"
Colby College News & Events, 2013 * 2013 Honorary Doctorate from

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...

* 2021 Nominated for 2021 Peabody Award for his work co-producing the American Insurrection news coverage.

Publications with others

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Torture Taxi ''Torture Taxi'': ''On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights'' is a 2006 book by A. C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen documenting the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The authors note the discovery of the program's means of transportation, ...

.'' Co-authored with

Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection. In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from the ...

. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2006. . **Icon, 2007. .

References

External links

"AC Thompson"
''Specious Species''
Terror in Little Saigon: New Doc Ties US-Allied Kill Squad to Unsolved Murders of Vietnamese Journos In US
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Democracy Now! ''Democracy Now!'' is an hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at ...

'' November 11, 2015, {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Adam Clay American investigative journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people George Polk Award recipients New College of California faculty Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients