Lauren Wolfe is an American journalist known for her coverage of wartime sexual violence.
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Early life
editWolfe studied at Wesleyan University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[1]
Career
editIn the 2000s, Wolfe reported on the September 11 attacks for books published by The New York Times.[1]
Wolfe was the senior editor of the Committee to Protect Journalists.[1]
Beginning in September 2011, Wolfe directed the Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center, which documents wartime sexual violence.[2][3][4] In 2012, she received the Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study.[1] Her reporting about a mass rape in eastern Congo in 2016 is credited with leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.[5][6][7]
Wolfe worked for The New York Times' live coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. elections.[1] In January 2021, she was the subject of a conservative harassment campaign after she tweeted that she had "chills" seeing Joe Biden's plane land at Joint Base Andrews ahead of his presidential inauguration. The Times ended her contract shortly thereafter, prompting discussion on its social media policy.[8][9]
Wolfe then launched a Substack newsletter, Chills, in which she writes about international investigative journalism.[10] She was a columnist at Foreign Policy and is a contributing writer to Washington Monthly,[1] as well as an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Journalism.[11]
Personal life
editWolfe lived in New York City before moving to Seattle, Washington, in 2021.[12] She was diagnosed with PTSD stemming from her reporting.[13] She identifies as queer.[14] She has dogs as pets.[15]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Wolfe, Lauren. "About". laurenmwolfe.com. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Freleng, Maggie (March 16, 2013). "Lauren Wolfe Crowdsources Rape, Sex Assault Data". Women's eNews. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Eichelberger, Erika (March 21, 2012). "New Map Helps Women Track Down Rapists in Syria". Mother Jones. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Alluri, Aparna (April 7, 2014). "More female journalists means broader foreign coverage". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ^ Goldberg, Mark Leon (July 11, 2016). "Journalist Lauren Wolfe reported on a horrendous war crime. Hours later the perpetrators were arrested". Global Dispatches (Podcast). UN Dispatch. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Sastre, Peggy (December 29, 2016). "Au Congo, les viols ont cessé à Kavumu, mais la reconstruction des victimes ne fait que commencer". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ "How One Reporter's Coverage Helped to Bring About Justice & Accountability in the DRC". Muftah. December 16, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ^ van Wagtendonk, Anya (January 24, 2021). "Did the New York Times fire an editor over a tweet? The Lauren Wolfe controversy, explained". Vox. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Wemple, Erik (January 25, 2021). "'It's a shot at my reputation': Lauren Wolfe reacts to NYT's statement about her dismissal". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ^ Meek, Andy. "The New York Times Took Away Lauren Wolfe's Platform. Now She Has One Of Her Own". Forbes. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ "Lauren Wolfe". School of Journalism. New York University. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Wolfe, Lauren. "Time to get off the carnival ride". Chills. Substack. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
- ^ Angyal, Chloe (April 20, 2015). "The Trauma of Writing About Trauma". The New Republic. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Thomas, Shibu (January 27, 2021). "New York Times 'Fires' Queer Journalist Lauren Wolfe". Star Observer. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Wolfe, Lauren [@Wolfe321] (August 25, 2022). "Somebody is very freaked out, but here! He's so tiny! All my dogs have been 70-100 pounds" (Tweet). Retrieved August 30, 2022 – via Twitter.