Emily Green is a Mexico City-based journalist whose work focuses on

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. In May 2020, Green was one of the inaugural recipients of the

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for her work with ''

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'' concerning the personal impact of the "Remain in Mexico" policy. Green is notable as one of few

freelance journalist ''Freelance'' (sometimes spelled ''free-lance'' or ''free lance''), ''freelancer'', or ''freelance worker'', are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance w ...

s to have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. In 2021, Green won an Emmy award for her coverage of children being trained to fight drug cartels in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

Education

Green received a bachelor's degree in political communication from

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in 2005. In 2006–2007, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to report on human rights abuses in the Philippines.

Awards

* 2020 – The Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. * 2021 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast.
The Kids Being Trained and Armed to Fight Mexican Cartels.
''VICE TV on YouTube''.

References

External links

"The Out Crowd"

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