Dionne Searcey

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Dionne Searcey is an American investigative journalist for The New York Times. She grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, and earned a degree in journalism and French from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She began her reporting career at the City News Bureau of Chicago and later worked for Newsday, The Seattle Times, and the Chicago Tribune, before joining The Wall Street Journal as a national legal correspondent and investigative reporter focused on telecom.

In 2014 she moved to The New York Times, where she has written about the American economy and, in 2015, became the West Africa bureau chief. Searcey has won multiple awards for her Boko Haram reporting, including the Michael Kelly Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. In 2018 she partnered with Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow on I Am Not A Weapon, video interviews with female Boko Haram survivors, and she earned an Emmy nomination for Boko Haram stories.

She shared a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times in 2020 for International Reporting: Russian Assassins and her reporting from the Central African Republic. She also received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia." Her memoir In Pursuit of Disobedient Women was published in March 2020. Searcey is now the politics reporter at The New York Times. She is married with children and lives in Brooklyn.