Sarah Ryley is an American journalist working as an investigative and data reporter at the ''

Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Gl ...

.'' Previously, she was an investigative reporter at The Trace, a non-profit news outlet that covers gun violence in America, and an editor and investigative journalist at the ''

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''. The ''Daily News'' and

ProPublica ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece written by one of its journalists''The Guardian'', April 13, 2010P ...

were joint recipients of the

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for Ryley's extensive reporting on the New York Police Department's "widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities." While at the ''Daily News'', Ryley also reported extensively on the NYPD's "Broken Windows" policing tactics, which resulted in sweeping reforms.

Early life and education

Ryley was born in Toledo, Ohio, and studied journalism at

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

in Detroit.

Career

Ryley joined the ''New York Daily News'' in 2012. Her work exposing racial disparities in the New York Police Department's practice of issuing summonses for low-level offenses resulted in the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act. Her investigation into the police department's use of the nuisance abatement law to push people from their businesses and homes, co-published with ProPublica, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2017 and resulted in the passage of the Nuisance Abatement Fairness Act.

Awards

* 2017, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, "Nuisance Abatement" (presented jointly to the ''New York Daily News'' and ProPublica)http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-daily-news-and-propublica

References

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