They Can't Kill Us All
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| Alma mater | Ohio University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The Washington Post |
| Notable work | "Fatal Force" project; They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement |
| Home town | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2016) |
| Website | www |
Wesley Lowery (born 1990) is a journalist at The Washington Post. He was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement (Little, Brown, 2016). In 2017, he became a CNN political contributor.
Lowery attended Shaker Heights High School and Ohio University. During college, Lowery was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Post, and interned at The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Wall Street Journal.
Lowery was a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times, then moved to the Boston Globe, becoming a general assignment political reporter in 2013 and covered topics including the murder trial of the NFL's Aaron Hernandez, Boston’s mayoral race, and the manhunt for the Boston marathon bombers.
In 2014, the National Association of Black Journalists named Lowery "Emerging Journalist of the Year". Lowery moved to the Washington Post in 2014; The Washingtonian described him in 2015 as the paper's "rising star...a terrific reporter" with a track record for "establishing deep sources, writing colorful solo pieces, and contributing to team coverage."
In August 2014, Lowery covered the Ferguson protests for The Post. On August 13, Lowery and Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly were arrested in a McDonald's. The company said it had not asked for the arrest, and journalism groups as well as Lowery's and Reilly's employers condemned the arrests, saying they were, as the Columbia Journalism Review characterized it, "deliberate and unjustifiable attempts to interfere with the press." A year later, shortly before the statute of limitations was set to expire, St. Louis County prosecutors charged Lowery and Reilly with trespassing and interfering with a police officer. In May 2016, prosecutors dropped all charges against Reilly and Lowery in exchange for an agreement that the reporters would not sue the county.
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