Dionne Searcey: New York Times Reporter, Author, and Pulitzer Prize Winner

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This episode's guest on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Podcast is a remarkable international journalist named Dionne Searcey. She won a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times in 2020 for International Reporting: Russian Assassins and her contribution from the Central African Republic. In 2014 Boko Haram kidnapped 250 girls from the Nigerian town of Chibok. This inspired the #Bringbackourgirls international campaign. Dionne went to northeastern Nigeria and into Cameroon to investigate the conversion of young girls to suicide bombers, battles between the Nigerian Army and Shiites, and Boko Haram raids on villages. She recently published a book called In Pursuit of Disobedient Women. She currently covers politics for the New York Times. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:44.4	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people.
0:52.1	This episode's guest is a remarkable reporter named Dionne Circe.
0:56.3	From 2014 to 2015, Dionne covered the U.S. economy for the New York Times.
1:02.7	She was living in Brooklyn with her husband and three kids at the time.
1:06.5	Prior to this position, she was an investigative reporter
1:09.3	and national legal correspondent for
1:11.3	the Wall Street Journal. In the fall of 2015, she traded her life in New York for a position
1:17.7	in Dakar, Senegal, as the West and Central Africa Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
1:23.4	This beat included approximately 25 countries from the Sahara to the Congo River.
1:28.3	In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 250 girls in Nigeria.
1:33.3	This event inspired the Bring Back Our Girls International Campaign.
1:38.3	Dion went to northeastern Nigeria and Cameroon to investigate the conversion of girls to suicide bombers,
1:45.1	battles between the Nigerian army and Shiites, and Boko Haram raids on villages.
1:51.0	One of her stories was titled,
1:53.0	They ordered her to be a suicide bomber. She had another idea.
1:57.8	Mousie Sagan, executive director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, said this.
2:03.6	Dion's reporting on Nigeria's Boko Haram conflict has been nothing short of phenomenal.
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