Jim Dwyer (journalist)

Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer, November 2016
Born	(1957-03-04) March 4, 1957 (age 59) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Journalist, author
Language	English
Ethnicity	Irish-American
Citizenship	American
Education	BS, General Sciences, Fordham College; MS, Journalism, Columbia University
Notable works	More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt and Science 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (team)
Website
nyti.ms/jimdwyer

Jim Dwyer (born March 4, 1957, in New York City) is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times, and the author or co-author of six non-fiction books. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He graduated from the Loyola School (New York City), earned a bachelor's degree in general science from Fordham University in 1979 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. He appeared in the 2012 documentary film Central Park Five and was portrayed on stage in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy [2013]. He also developed a 135 kW cogeneration plant and a 50.54 kW photovoltaic solar panel system for his cooperative apartment building in Manhattan.

In 1992, Dwyer was a member of a team at New York Newsday that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting for their coverage of the 1991 Union Square derailment, and in 1995, as a columnist with New York Newsday, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Besides the Times and Newsday, he has worked at the Hudson Dispatch, the Elizabeth Daily Journal, The Record of Hackensack, and The New York Daily News. He joined the Times in May 2001 and contributed to the paper's coverage of 9/11,the invasion of Iraq, and how intelligence was manipulated to create the illusion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. He has been the About New York columnist at the Times since April 2007. Dwyer is the author or co-author of six books, mentioned below.